Brooklyn State of Mind Lyrics

Chandler: In Brooklyn, look in the Nolans home. They gotta child named Francie. Dat where she roam. Living in the time before telephones. She works all the time to pay off the loans. Her bosses voice drones, and her peers give her threatening tones. To top things off her brothers not mature. In a tough world as serene as a picture. Yeah in Francie’s world she’s still believin’ that there are better places that she could be leavin’. Francie’s dreamin’ that she could go to places worth conceiving. She’s livin in a world with more danger than not. She has to overcome things like a dad on shots. He drinks all night and sleeps all day, they all know he’s throwing his life away.

Brooklyn, Brooklyn, that’s where she roam. Brooklyn, Brooklyn, dats Francie ’s home.
In Brooklyn this kinda stars a rarity, but she’s tough she don’t accept no charity.

Bradford: Johnny is a poor hopeless man, going through life without a game plan, but on the other hand. his singing voice he could start a band and His dance moves could be the best in the land, yes this guy is definitely not bland. Yeah all this booze will make him lose, but this kinda life will make him choose. But to truly tighten his noose, is for his family to cut him loose.

Brooklyn, Brooklyn, dat’s where she roam. Brooklyn, Brooklyn, dats Francie’s home. In Brooklyn this kinda stars a rarity, but she’s tough she don’t accept no charity

Bradford: Katie, she’s the kind of lady, who’ll never act shady, yeah she works all day scrubbing the floors, getting in between all the doors, ya know she got a million chores, and the soap damages her skin pores. The story of her life will be in Brooklyn forever more.

Brooklyn, Brooklyn that’s where she roam, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, dats Francie ’s home.
In Brooklyn this kinda star is a rarity, but she’s so tough she don’t accept no charity.

Mattie T: The little brother is another who never wants out of brooklyns cover. No he doesn’t want to learn even though his mom yearns for him to turn that way. No every day he says that he ’s a feller living a stellar Brooklyn life, even though it’s filled with grief and strife.

Bradford: Yeah Katie is another mother living under cover without a lover, with a daughter and a son, she thinks hes the one. Gotta husband on the drink, hes always on the brink of surviving off drinks. Yea gotta finda way to survive another day, cuz hes just another castaway, gone to pass away, yea we going fast today, cuz hes gotta last another day. Francie, what with that girl, she’s so nice she rocks everybodys world, she sets everyone’s mind a twirl, yeah she reads, with her hair in beads, gets all the leads on the news today, just from where she stay. Yeah in Brooklyn these streets will blow your mind, filled with wunderkind, yeah day and night , life’s tight, countless fights, lives waiting to be filled with light, with people mad who bite, so people roam slight. Gotta pick trash in the street. Gotta get these people on the beat, and straight to sleep, Cause they all feel the heat.

Brooklyn, Brooklyn that’s where she roam, Brooklyn, Brooklyn that’s Francies home. In Brooklyn this kinda star’s a rarity, but she’s so tough she don’t except no charity.

Mattie T: Neeley yeah he belongs to a clan, while he’s tryin to be man, but hes been drunk once, and he was in a funk once, he was a little punk once, and hes getting all the junk out, but hes still gotta family that cares for him handily, yeah his sister’s gotta job so she doesn’t have to rob,

Chandler: Yeah we got a Brooklyn, Brooklyn state of mind, the serenity here, heals the blind, oooh the racial tension, your house’s pension, people don’t pay attention, oh and did we fail to mention what went wrong, we been in Brooklyn too long. Come to Brooklyn to stay and see, all victims of discrepancy, poverty far as the eye can see, but splendidly we closen our ties, they’re there forever until somebody dies. We find the neglected, and the disrespected, and the unprotected, can we stand together, whether or not, we own a lot. We need a little land, a place stand, built by hand, or have we stranded, have we been branded inferior, by our superior.

Brooklyn, Brooklyn that’s where she roam, Brooklyn, Brooklyn that’s Francies home. In Brooklyn this kinda star’s a rarity, but she’s so tough she don’t except no charity.

Chandler: Sissy, she’s been involved with tons of men, and nobody knows where she’ been, with her dresses she wants to be someone’s bestest. Yeah she only wants a baby, but with the problems it’s a maybe, with the deaths it’s operation no go, so she’s forced to go solo.

Brooklyn, Brooklyn that’s where she roam, Brooklyn, Brooklyn that’s Francies home. In Brooklyn this kinda star’s a rarity, but she’s so tough she don’t except no charity.

Mattie T: Yeah, before the times of Jay-Z Brooklyn’s kinda crazy, lifetimes get hazy, people getten spacey, wearing dresses so lacey, when there was nobody named Stacey. Yeah the brother’s getttin a little lova. The people in Brooklyn get so so scary when there was no Mathew perry. Yeah , there’s some creepy convicts, they ask what’s the verdict, as they try to predict, what the future holds, fates in bold, bonds of gold, street corner mold, what they all where told, before they grew too old. We ask are you fo sho, what’s the total, escape is our motto, where’s your afro our bro.

Bradford: AAAAAOOOOOHHHHHHHÿÿ!

Brooklyn, Brooklyn that’s where she roam, Brooklyn, Brooklyn that’s Francies home. In Brooklyn this kinda star’s a rarity, but she’s so tough she don’t except no charity.

Yeah, Brooklyn, Brooklyn that’s where she roam, Brooklyn, Brooklyn that’s Francies home. In Brooklyn this kinda star’s a rarity, but she’s so tough she don’t except no charity.
RESPECT

Walking Home

Aaron, Brad and I all walk home after school. One day, we did some really strange things. First, the UPS guy has an eye on us from now on lets say. Every time we would see him, we would wave to him and run back and forth across the street as many times as we could before he came. If that wasn't enough, we would talk to him a little bit and he would never respond. Next, Aaron left and Brad and I got to SS and the entrance to Steeple Chase and there are two big signs that have Steeple Chase written on them and lights shining on them. Well, me Brad decided to play the statue game in front of them. Every time a car past, we would stand perfectly still and act like a statue. We got more into this game and we decided to play dead on the sign of Steeple Chase.

Eventually, this got a bit boring so we started to try the rope trick. If you don't know what the rope game is, all you do is act like you have a rope in your hands and you stand on opposite sides of the street and act like your pulling tight on a rope and try to get the car to stop. If they don't you jump and look like the car pulled you along with it. We tried it on some people. I never worked but some of the people were amused by it, others were not. For example, we tried it on some high school guys. They were not in a good mood. They drove right through and beeped at us.
Now if that wasn't enough for a walk home, we put our musical talents and displayed them to the world by singing Hey Jude to the World. Some people were amused but yet again, others were not. It didn't affect us at all. We just kept singing. If you haven't noticed, we don't really care what anybody says about us, it just flows. If that wasn't enough to do on a walk home, we were cutting through someones yard and there was a huge dog right on the porch that we didn't see. Anyways, it barked and we ran but it chased us but luckily, it had an electric fence. Well that's it. Trust me, there are plenty of more adventures to come.