Miami 2017 (Demo - 1975)-Billy Joel

[ti:Miami 2017 (Demo)] [ar:Billy Joel] [al:My Lives] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Miami 2017 (Demo - 1975) - Billy Joel [00:15.64]I've seen the lights go out on broadway [00:18.87] [00:22.73]I saw the empire state lay low [00:25.66] [00:30.26]And life went on beyond palisades [00:33.48] [00:35.98]They all bought cadillacs [00:37.40] [00:39.33]And left there long ago [00:40.83] [00:44.34]We held a concert out in brooklyn [00:47.45] [00:51.45]To watch the island bridges blow [00:54.16] [00:58.55]They turned our power down [01:00.38] [01:02.23]And drove us underground [01:03.46] [01:05.80]But we went right on with the show [01:08.57] [01:23.38]I've seen the lights go out on broadway [01:26.36] [01:30.51]I saw the ruins at my feet [01:32.99] [01:37.62]You know we almost didn't notice it [01:40.65] [01:43.11]We'd seen it all the time on 42nd street [01:48.21] [01:51.93]They burned the churches up in harlem [01:54.81] [01:59.02]Like in that spanish civil war [02:01.13] [02:06.31]The flames were everywhere [02:07.53] [02:09.81]But no one really cared [02:11.36] [02:13.34]It always burned up there before [02:15.75] [02:30.91]I've seen the lights go out on broadway [02:33.83] [02:37.77]I watched the mighty skyline fall [02:40.41] [02:44.89]The boats were waiting at the battery [02:47.72] [02:50.05]The union went on strike [02:51.89] [02:53.50]They never sailed at all [02:55.24] [02:59.18]They sent a carrier out from norfolk [03:01.70] [03:05.80]And picked the yankees up for free [03:08.58] [03:12.82]They said that queens could stay [03:14.92] [03:16.37]They blew the bronx away [03:18.13] [03:20.14]And sank manhattan out to sea [03:22.88] [03:37.55]I've seen the lights go out on broadway [03:40.56] [03:44.89]But that was so many years ago [03:47.55] [03:51.77]Before we all lived here in florida [03:54.65] [03:57.05]Before the mafia took over mexico [04:01.64] [04:05.80]There are not many who remember [04:08.30] [04:12.87]They say a handful still survive [04:15.26] [04:19.96]To tell the world about [04:21.58] [04:23.44]The way the lights went out [04:25.35] [04:27.19]And keep the memory alive