[00:01.760]Seen the lights go out on broadway
[00:07.760]I saw the Empire State laid low
[00:14.120]And life went on beyond the Palisades
[00:18.640]They all bought Cadillacs
[00:21.960]And left there long ago
[00:26.700]They held a concert out in Brooklyn
[00:32.900]To watch the island bridges blow
[00:39.270]They turned our power down
[00:42.710]And drove us underground
[00:45.710]But we went right on with the show
[00:53.710]
[00:55.960]I've seen the lights go out on Broadway
[01:07.530]I saw the ruins at my feet
[01:13.770]You know we almost didn't notice it
[01:18.580]We'd seen it all time on Forty-second Street
[01:26.160]They burned the chuches up in Harlem
[01:32.790]Like in the Spanish civil war
[01:39.040]The flames were ev'rywhere
[01:42.360]But no one really cared
[01:45.660]It always burned up there before
[02:01.730]I've seen the lights go out on Broadway
[02:07.660]I watched the mighty skyline fall
[02:14.290]The boats were waiting at the battery
[02:19.600]The union went on strike
[02:22.100]They never sailed at all
[02:26.470]They sent a carrier out from Norfolk
[02:32.850]And picked the Yankees up for free
[02:39.100]They said that Queens could stay
[02:42.360]And blew the Bronx away
[02:45.600]And sank Manhattan out at sea
[03:00.230]
[03:01.290]You know those lights were bright on Broadway
[03:08.040]That was so many years ago
[03:15.050]Before we all lived here in Florida
[03:22.420]Before the Mafia took over Mexico
[03:27.550]There are not many who remember
[03:34.060]They say a handful still survive
[03:40.620]To tell the world about
[03:43.930]The way the lights went out
[03:47.300]And keep the memory alive