Song 12 -- Youngstown

This song was written in 1995. Youngstown is a city in Ohio that used to be part of a huge chain of steel factories. Around the 1980's all these factories closed down and this song is about the struggle of the worker, and how they viewed the closing of the factories. The workers felt angry, because thousands of them lost their job and they felt that all their work was waisted. This song's story was told as if the singer was in the midst of the event and had a perfect idea of the worker's feelings. I didn't care for this song, I liked the tune and the lyrics, but I didn't like how it was performed. This song tells about when America was industrializing and human workers were being replaced by machines.