MOOSE IN BROOKLYN        words & music by Lenny Solomon

                                                © L. Solomon 2008

 

Getting up was such a trial, he couldn’t see, he couldn’t smile

His imagination in denial, he had no place to go

He had nothing left to show, for all his living days

But that was before, he finally saw

Could not believe his eyes, a surreal surprise

On that misty day, in Sheepshead Bay, he saw a moose in Brooklyn

 

He once thought that all was lost, when emptiness became his boss

Finding too late that the cost, was too much for him to bear

The edge of that despair, almost whittled him away

But that was before, he finally saw

Could not believe his eyes, a surreal surprise

On that misty day, in Sheepshead Bay, he saw a moose in Brooklyn

 

He was assured the going rate, for those like him who couldn’t wait

Was to crawl inside a leap of faith, so he wouldn’t have to think

So he sipped that magic drink, and prayed that he’d be saved

But that was before, he finally saw

Could not believe his eyes, a surreal surprise

On that misty day, in Sheepshead Bay, he saw a moose in Brooklyn

 

He sometimes wondered if his time, was nothing more than a lost rhyme

A poem that travels down a line, to its final end

And when he drops his pen, will it vanish in a haze

But that was before, he finally saw

Could not believe his eyes, a surreal surprise

On that misty day, in Sheepshead Bay, he saw a moose in Brooklyn