Billy Joel – Miami 2017 Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway (Guitar)

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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 Palisades,

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 They all bought Cadillacs

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 And left there long ago.

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 They held a concert out in Brooklyn

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 To watch the Island bridges blow.

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 They 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 my feet

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 You know we almost didn't notice it

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We'd see it all the time on Forty-Second Street.

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 They 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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 But no one really cared

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 It always burned up there before

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 I've seen the lights go out on Broadway

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 I watched the mighty skyline fall.

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 The boats were waiting at the Battery

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 The union went on strike

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They never sailed at all.

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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 that Queens could stay

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 They blew the Bronx away

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 And sank Manhattan out at sea

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 You know those lights were bright on Broadway

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 But that was so many years ago

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 Before we all lived here in Florida

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 Before the Mafia took over Mexico.

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 There are not 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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 And keep the memory alive