Miami 2017 Lyrics

The song Miami 2017 is performed by Billy Joel in the album named 12 Gardens: Live (2CD) in the year 2006 .



(Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)

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've seeb 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...




Billy Joel - 12 Gardens: Live (2CD)

Jun 2006

  1. Angry Young man
  2. My Life
  3. Everybody Loves You Now
  4. Billy the Kid
  5. The Entertainer
  6. Vienna
  7. New York State of Mind
  8. The Night is Still young
  9. Zanzibar
  10. Miami 2017
  11. The Great Wall of China
  12. Allentown
  13. She's Right on Time
  14. Don't Ask Me Why
  15. Laura
  16. Goodnight Saigon
  17. Movin Out
  18. An Innocent man
  19. The Downeaster Alexa
  20. Always a Woman
  21. Keeping the Faith
  22. River of Dreams
  23. A Matter of Trust
  24. We Didn't Start the Fire
  25. Big Shot
  26. You May Be Right
  27. Only the Good Die Young
  28. Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
  29. Piano Man
  30. And So it Goes


Miami 2017