(¡°This song is about young people living in the northeast of America.¡±)
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(¡°¬¿¬ä¬Ñ ¬á¬Ö¬ã¬ß¬ñ - ¬à ¬Þ¬à¬Ý¬à¬Õ¬í¬ç ¬Ý¬ð¬Õ¬ñ¬ç, ¬Ø¬Ú¬Ó¬å¬ë¬Ú¬ç ¬ß¬Ñ ¬ã¬Ö¬Ó¬Ö¬â¬à-¬Ó¬à¬ã¬ä¬à¬Ü¬Ö ¬¡¬Þ¬Ö¬â¬Ú¬Ü¬Ú.")
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(¡°Their lives are miserable because the steel factories are closing down.¡±)
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("¬ª¬ç ¬Ø¬Ú¬Ù¬ß¬Ú ¬ß¬Ö¬ã¬é¬Ñ¬ã¬ä¬ß¬í, ¬á¬à¬ä¬à¬Þ¬å ¬é¬ä¬à ¬ã¬ä¬Ñ¬Ý¬î¬ß¬í¬Ö ¬æ¬Ñ¬Ò¬â¬Ú¬Ü¬Ú ¬Ù¬Ñ¬Ü¬â¬í¬Ó¬Ñ¬ð¬ä.")
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(¡°They desperately wanna leave.¡±)
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("¬°¬ß¬Ú ¬à¬ä¬é¬Ñ¬ñ¬ß¬ß¬à ¬ç¬à¬ä¬ñ¬ä ¬å¬Ö¬ç¬Ñ¬ä¬î.")
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(¡°But they stayed because they were growing up to believe that things are going to get better.¡±)
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("¬¯¬à ¬à¬ß¬Ú ¬à¬ã¬ä¬Ñ¬Ý¬Ú¬ã¬î, ¬á¬à¬ä¬à¬Þ¬å ¬é¬ä¬à ¬à¬ß¬Ú ¬â¬à¬ã¬Ý¬Ú, ¬é¬ä¬à¬Ò¬í ¬á¬à¬Ý¬Ñ¬Ô¬Ñ¬ä¬î, ¬é¬ä¬à ¬Ó¬Ö¬ë¬Ú ¬ã¬à¬Ò¬Ú¬â¬Ñ¬ð¬ä¬ã¬ñ ¬á¬à¬á¬â¬Ñ¬Ó¬Ý¬ñ¬ä¬î¬ã¬ñ.")
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(¡°Maybe that sounds familiar.¡±)
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("¬£¬à¬Ù¬Þ¬à¬Ø¬ß¬à, ¬Ü¬à¬ä¬à¬â¬í¬Û ¬Ü¬Ñ¬Ø¬Ö¬ä¬ã¬ñ ¬Ù¬ß¬Ñ¬Ü¬à¬Þ¬í¬Þ.")
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Yeah. Ssssh! Ugh! Hah!
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Well, we're living here in Allentown
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And they're closing all the factories down
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Out in Bethlehem, they're killing time
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Filling out forms, standing in line
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Well, our fathers fought the Second World War
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Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
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Met our mothers in the USO
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Asked them to dance, danced with them slow
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And we're living here in Allentown
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But the restlessness was handed down
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And it's getting very hard to stay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay
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Hey hey hey, oh whoa oh, ssssh! Ugh! Hah!
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Well, we're waiting here in Allentown
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For the Pennsylvania we never found
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For the promises our teachers gave
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If we worked hard, if we behaved
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So the graduations hang on the wall
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Aw they never really helped us at all
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No, they never taught us what was real
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Iron and Coke and chromium steel
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And we're waiting here in Allentown
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But they've taken all the coal from the ground
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And the union people crawled away-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay
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Hey hey hey
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Every child had a pretty good shot
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To get at least as far as their old man got
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Something happened on the way to that place
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They threw an American Flag in our fa-a-a-ace, oh oh oh
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Ssssh! Ugh! Hah!
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And I'm living here in Allentown
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And it's hard to keep a good man down
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But I won't be getting up today-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay
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Hey hey hey
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Hey hey hey, oh whoa oh, (Sssh! Ugh! Hah!)
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And it's getting very hard to stay-ay-ay-ay-yea-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay
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And we're living here in Allentown
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Ooh-ooh-ooh ooh-ooh...
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Ooh-ooh-ooh ooh-ooh...
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Allentown (Kohuept)
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Billy Joel |