Copacabana - Barry Manilow - Lyrics

I remember this song playing on the radio as a child. Of course i had no idea of the total lyrics until this week. The final verse paints a bleak modern day outcome for this song lyric romance...an out come of destruction and entropy. 
  We sometimes fail to realise that old people were not always old , and buildings hold a history we may never learn of. There is nothing new under the sun as they say, but tales evapourate over time and who knows what stories get lost ? If these walls could talk !!