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Billy JoelRelease date: 26th October 1987
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"Allentown-Live At A Matter of Trust: The Bridge to Russia: Deluxe Edition-" is a track by Billy Joel, from the album A Matter of Trust: The Bridge to Russia: Deluxe Edition, released 26th October 1987. Full lyrics are available below.
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This song is about young people, living in the North East of America Their lives are miserable, because the steel factories are closing down They desperately wanna leave But they stayed, because they were brought up to believe, that thing were going to get better Maybe that sounds familiar Well we're living here in Allentown And thеy're closing all the factories down Out in Bеthlehem 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 in 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 had a pretty good shot To get at least as far as their old man got Something happened on the way to that place They threw an American flag in our face 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
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