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.
    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...
    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...