Miami 2017 Lyrics - The Stranger - Billy Joel

I've seen the lights go out on broadway- 

I saw the empire state laid low. 

And life went on beyond the palisades, 

They all bought bright cadillacs- 

And left there long ago. 

We 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... 

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. 

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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... 

I saw the lights go out on broadway- 

I watched the mighty skyline fall. 

The boats were waiting at the battery, 

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 said that queens could stay, 

They blew the bronx away- 

And sank manhattan out to sea... 

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You know those lights were bright on broadway- 

But 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...