Billy Joel - allentown

Allentown에 사는 사람들은 자신의 부모 세대가 겪었던 어려움을 돌아보며, 산업의 쇠퇴와 실망감 속에서 미래에 대한 희망을 잃어가고 있다
과거의 약속은 이행되지 않았고, 그들은 더 이상 희망을 찾는 게 힘들다고 느낀다
매일매일은 잃어버린 꿈과 마주하는 싸움이다

Well we're living here in Allentown
And they're closing all the factories down
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
Filling out forms
Standing in line
Well our fathers fought the Second World War
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
Met our mothers at the USO
Asked them to dance
Danced with them slow

And we're living here in Allentown

But the restlessness was handed down
And it's getting very hard to stay

Well we're waiting here in Allentown
For the Pennsylvania we never found
For the promises our teachers gave
If we worked hard
If we behaved
So the graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No they never taught us what was real
Iron and coke
And chromium steel

And we're waiting here in Allentown
But they've taken all the coal from the ground
And the union people crawled away
Every child has a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got
But something happened on the way to that place
They threw an American flag in our place

Well I'm living here in Allentown
And it's hard to keep a good man down
But I won't be getting up today


And it's getting very hard to stay
And we're living here in Allentown