East Of Gary

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I grew up on the Indiana side of Chicago
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With the rusty steel mills belching in the westward wind
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I watched Mom and Dad trying to clean their sorrows
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With my brothers and me at old Lake Michigan

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There's a little boy
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He's got big brown eyes
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He's got swimming trunks
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‘bout twice his size
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Yeah he's looking at a steel mill sunset
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Skipping a stone,
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"Hey boy,  ain't you a little young to   feel so alone?"

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Well they changed the name of my hometown when we moved away
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Now it's more than words that I don't recognize
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That kid down at the filling station tried to keep my change from a twenty
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I could see that cold assurance in his eyes

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Hey you need ten dollars for the rainy day?
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Yeah save and go to college or just get away get away get away
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Or you could spend that money on a two-day stone
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Oh, there are worse things in this world than   being alone let me tell you now...

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So, if you're driving from Chicago, east of Gary
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And you find a fallen town that has two names
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There'll be no one to possibly remember
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A little lonesome brown-eyed boy who went by James

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Oh the mill's shut down
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But the air's still sour
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You get a hotel room
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You gotta pay by the hour
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Oh the good old days
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They're just good and gone
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Like autumn leaves          on a burning lawn

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Yeah I grew up on the Indiana side of Chicago
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With the rusty steel mills belching in the westward wind

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