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I've seen the lights go out on Broadway, |
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I saw the Empire State laid low. |
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And life went on beyond the palaces. |
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They all bought Cadillac's, |
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Left there long ago |
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We held a concert out in Brooklyn. |
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To watch the Island bridges blow. |
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It turned our power down, |
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And drove us underground, |
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But we went right on with the show. |
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I've seen the lights go out on Broadway, |
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I saw the ruins at life end. |
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You know we almost didn't notice it, |
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We see it all the time |
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On 42nd street |
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It burned the churches up in Harlem |
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Like in that Spanish Civil War. |
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The flames were everywhere, |
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And no one really cared, |
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It always burned up there before |
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I've seen the rats lie down on Broadway, |
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And I watched the Miami skyline fall. |
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The folks were waving at the Battery |
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The union went on strike |
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They never settled it out. |
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They sent a carrier out from Norfolk, |
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And picked the Yankees up for free. |
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They said the Queens could stay |
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And threw the crowns away, |
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And sent Manhattan out to sea. |
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She knows those lights right on Broadway |
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That was so many years ago. |
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Before we all lived in Florida. |
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Before the Mafia, |
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Took over Mexico. |
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There are too many who remember. |
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They say a handful still survive. |
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To tell the world about, |
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The way the lights went out, |
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To keep the memory alive. |
