sleep

they call coney island the playground of the world.
there was no place like it, in the whole world,
like coney island
when i was a youngster.
no place in the world like it,
it was so fabulous.
now it shrunk down to almost nothing.
you see,
i still remember in my mind
how things used to be.
and you know,
i feel very bad.
when people from all over the world came here,
it was a playground... they call it the playground of the world.
when i was very small, i even got lost in coney island.
but they found me
on the beach.
we used to sleep on the beach here,
sleep over night.
they don't do it anymore.
things change.
they don't sleep anymore on the beach.