As If We Never Said Goodbye (Live at Barclays Center)

Lyrics

[Intro] Thank you, thank you [Verse 1] I don't know why I'm frightened I know my way around here The Brooklyn docks, the Nova lox, the sound here Yes, a world with hot knishes Is incredibly delicious And I need a moment So talk amongst yourselves, I'm getting verklempt [Verse 2] The whispered conversations Of neighbors down the hallways The atmosphere is shrill in here as always Hear the early morning mumbling As the garbage trucks go rumbling Why, everything's as if I never said goodbye [Bridge] Somehow I have always known Thе past is never past Now I've waitеd long enough I've come home at last [Verse 3] [?] Those days gone by when I was so much thinner And I cannot overstate it I'm so glad I graduated From good old Erasmus [Verse 4] In any crowd you stand out We're Brooklyn sons and daughters If you ask me, it just might be the waters They will never call us humdrum 'Cause we're proud of where we come from And everything's as if I never said goodbye Yes, everything's as if I never said goodbye [Outro] Hello Brooklyn! Hello! Who said you can't go home again, right? Thank you, thank you, thank you so much You know, the last time that I sang solo here Was on somebody's stoop on Pulaski Street I was eight, yes And being here makes me remember so many things I love people from Brooklyn because they're real They're down to earth, you know, they tell it like it is That's 'cause we have no manners, but Anyway, many of the, uh, people closet to me come from Brooklyn My long-time manager, Marty Erlichman He's been with me, uh, fifty years, my God Now before you start doing the math You should know that Marty first discovered me When I was in the neo-natal unit at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital Yes, he heard me crying and thought I had a good set of pipes, you know?