Brooklyn Baby

They say i'm too young to love you

I don't know what i need

They think i don't understand

The freedom land of the seventies

I think i'm too cool to know ya

You say i'm like the ice i freeze

I'm churning out novels like

Beat poetry on amphetamines

I say

I say

Well my boyfriend's in a band

He plays guitar while i sing lou reed

I've got feathers in my hair

I get down to beat poetry

And my jazz collection's rare

I can play most anything

I'm a brooklyn baby

I'm a brooklyn baby

They say i'm too young to love you

They say i'm too dumb to see

They judge me like a picture book

By the colors like they forgot to read

I think we're like fire and water

I think we're like the wind and sea

You're burning up i'm cooling down

You're up i'm down

You're blind i see

But i'm free

I'm free

Well my boyfriend's in a band

He plays guitar while i sing lou reed

I've got feathers in my hair

I get down to beat poetry

And my jazz collection's rare

I can play most anything

I'm a brooklyn baby

I'm a brooklyn baby

I'm talking about my generation

Talking about that newer nation

And if you don't like it

You can beat it

Beat it baby

You never liked the way i said it

If you don't get it then forget it

So don't have to f**king explain it

And my boyfriend's in a band

He plays guitar while i sing lou reed

I've got feathers in my hair

I get high on hydroponic weed

And my jazz collection's rare

I get down to beat poetry

I'm a brooklyn baby

I'm a brooklyn baby

I'm a brooklyn I'm a baby

Yeah my boyfriend's pretty cool

But he's not as cool as me

Cause i'm a brooklyn baby

I'm a brooklyn baby