They say that I'm too young to love you
I don't know what I need
They think I don't understand
The freedomland of the seventies

I think I'm too cool to know you
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 almost anything
I'm a Brooklyn Baby
I'm a Brooklyn Baby

They say I'm too young to love you
They say I'm to 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 almost anything
I'm a Brooklyn Baby
I'm a Brooklyn Baby

I'm talkin bout my generation
Talkin bout 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 
Cause I don't have to fucking 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

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