JOEL BILLY - Miami 2017 lyrics
rate meI've seen the lights go out on broadway-<br>I saw the empire state laid low.<br>And life went on beyond the palisades,<br>They all bought bright cadillacs-<br>And left there long ago.<br><br>We held a concert out in brooklyn-<br>To watch the island bridges blow.<br>They turned our power down,<br>And drove us underground-<br>But we went right on with the show...<br><br>I've seen the lights go out on broadway-<br>I saw the ruins at my feet,<br>You know we almost didn't notice it-<br>We'd see it all the time on forty-second street.<br><br>They burned the churches up in harlem-<br>Like in that spanish civil war-<br>The flames were everywhere,<br>But no one really cared-<br>It always burned up there before....<br><br>I saw the lights go out on broadway-<br>I watched the mighty skyline fall.<br>The boats were waiting at the battery,<br>The union went on strike-<br>They never sailed at all.<br><br>They sent a carrier out from norfolk-<br>And picked the yankees up for free.<br>They said that queens could stay,<br>They blew the bronx away-<br>And sank manhattan out to sea....<br><br>You know those lights were bright on broadway-<br>But that was so many years ago...<br>Before we all lived here in florida-<br>Before the mafia took over mexico.<br>There are not many who remember-<br>They say a handful still survive...<br>To tell the world about...<br>The way the lights went out,<br>And keep the memory alive....
