Miami 2017 (I've Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)

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I've seen the lights go out on Broadway
 I saw the Empire State laid low
 Life went on beyond the Palaces
 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 see it all the time on Forty-Second Street
 They burned the churches up in Harlem
 Like in that 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 lights go out on Broadway
 I washed the mighty skyline fall
 The boats were waiting at the valley
 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 sailed the Queens to save, 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

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Duration
05:12
Key
2
Tempo
153 BPM

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