Karaoké Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway - live) Billy Joel

Seen the lights go out on Broadway

I saw the Empire State laid low

Life went on beyond the Palisades

They all bought Cadillacs and left there long ago

They held a concert out in Brooklyn

To watch the island bridges blow

They turned our power down and drove us underground

But we went right on with the show

Oh oh oh oh oh oh

I've seen the lights go out on Broadway

I saw the ruins at my feet

You know we almost didn't notice it

We'd seen it all the time on forty-second street

They burned the churches up in Harlem like in the Spanish civil war

The flames were everywhere but no one really cared

It always burned up there before

Oh oh oh oh oh oh

I've seen the lights go out on Broadway

I've watched the mighty skyline fall

The boats were waiting at the battery

The Union went on strike they never sailed at all

They sent a carrier out from Norfolk

And picked the Yankees up for free

They said that

Queens could stay

They blew the Bronx away and sank Manhattan out at sea

You know those lights were bright on Broadway

That was so many years ago

Before we all lived here in Florida

Before the Mafia took over Mexico

There are not many who remember they say a handful still survive

To tell the world about the way the lights went out and keep the memory alive