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I grew up on the Indiana side of Chicago
With the rusty steel mills belchin' in the westward wind
I watched mom and dad tryin' to clean their sorrows
With my brothers and me at old Lake Michigan
Oh there's a little boy he's got big brown eyes
He's got swimmin' trunks 'bout twice his size
And he's lookin' at a steel mill sunset skippin' a stone
Hey boy ain't you a little young to feel so alone
Well they changed the name of my home town when we moved away
Now it's more than words that I don't recognize
That kid down at the fillin' station he
Tried to keep my change from a twenty
And I could see that cold assurance in his eyes
Hey you need ten dollars for the rainy day
Yeah save it and go to college or just get away get away get away
Or you can spend that money on a two day stomp
Oh there are worse things in this world than being alone
Let me tell you now
Oh if you're drivin' from Chicago east of Gary
And you find a fallen town that has two names
There'll be no one to possibly remember
A little lonesome brown eyed boy who went by James
Oh the mill's shut down but the air's still sour
You get a hotel room you gotta pay by the hour
Oh them good old days they're just good and gone
Like autumn leaves on a burnin' lawn
Yeah I grew up on the Indiana side of Chicago
With the rusty steel mills belchin' in the westward wind