Kevin Devine
Brooklyn Boy
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A Brooklyn boy born and raised chopping lines
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hey hey it’s my birthday
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A toy I torched to tar pit flames a lock jaw night
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hey hey its my birthday
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Dead-end friends will make your stomach shake
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While your hissing’ head
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Barrels down that blackened lane
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Alone at last to figure how you got this way
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Alone at last to figure how you got this way
(Interlude)
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Charcoal clouds spot and spray they kill the sun hey hey
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hear its back break
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So I can never tell night from day right from wrong hey hey
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you’re my headache
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A silver tongue amass your hungry hate while haggard heart
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Whispers through it cracking cage
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Still can change you have to know you still can change
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I know I know but now I want to be this way
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This was a choice this was never a mistake
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This was never a mistake
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