East Of Gary lyrics

I grew up on the Indiana side of ChicagoWith the rusty steel mills belching in the westward windI watched Mom and Dad trying to clean their sorrowWith my brothers and me at old Lake MichiganThere's a little boyHe's got big brown eyesHe's got swimming trunks ‘bout twice his sizeLooking at a steel mill sunsetSkipping a stone, "hey, ain't you a little youngTo feel so alone?"Well they changed the name of my hometownWhen we moved awayNow it's more than words that I don't recognizeThat kid down at the filling stationTried to keep my change from a twentyI could see that cold assurance in his eyesHey you need ten dollars for the rainy day?Save and go to college or just get awayOr you could spend that money on a two-day stoneOh, there are worse things in this world than being aloneLet me tell you now…So, if you're driving from Chicago, east of GaryAnd you find a fallen town that has two namesThere'll be no one to possibly rememberA little lonesome brown-eyed boy who went by J
amesOh the mill's shut downBut the air's still sourYou get a hotel roomYou gotta pay by the hourOh the good old days are just good and goneLike autumn leaves on a burning lawnI grew up on the Indiana side of ChicagoWith the rusty steel mills belching in the westward wind