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.
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Miami 2017
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| Richard Marx |
