| Simon and Garfunkel – My Little Town Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| I'm a little younger that Paul Simon but I can relate to the song. I think it is about the transformation of the country. The Greatest Generation were our parents. Many grew up in small towns. Manufacturing was big. But our parents wanted better for us, sent us to college, we moved to the big cities and nobody wanted to work in a factory. A shift from a manufacturing economy to a service economy. The laundry and rainbow are references to air pollution on one hand and the lack of hope and imagination. Young people move out of the small towns, their parents stay until they die. That's all. | |
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