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Dennis DeYoung: Yeah, well, you see now, I'm a depression baby, and I remember the WPA. I think we just start the same thing again and get those people out workin' there, why not? Is it too menial for somebody to sweep the street?
James Young: And if, and if you're get enough money where you don't have to work, let's face it, who wants to work?
Dennis DeYoung: There's no reason why anybody in five generations of people gotta be on welfare.
Citizen: I had one fella get in, no offence to you gentlemen, he had long hair, a beard, and, uh, I told him, "You had better go home and take a bath." He had B/O so bad, it was terrible. I said, "You might be educated, but, uh, did your parents tell you to go dirty?"
Newspaper Salesman: See the latest issue! Hard up, see! Chicago scene!
Citizen: Kids nowadays, that's the whole thing. Too much money, they got too much money. Uh, they don't have to go out and, uh, struggle and work for, uh, things that, uh, like when, uh, I was, uh, growing up, had to do, and I was lucky if I got the job, uh, delivering, uh, hats at a hat store for 25 cents, uh, uh, per hat. Too much money today is with the young kids. Uh, everything is handed to them, and, uh, that's why they are the way they are.
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I was only seven years old when Styx released the album with the above dialouge so I really can't comment on the accuracy of the views, although it does reflect what I've heard those older than me say about that era's.
I do note the contrast Styx created by placing this pessimistic dialouge bewtween two songs ('Children Of The Land' and 'Fanfare For The Common Man') that are so optimistic.
I find it ironic when the man says, "kids nowadays, that's the whole thing too much money, they've got too much money ...".
I've heard the same sentiments out the mouths of members of that youthful (then) generation when caroing about the latest generation's values.
It reminds me to pause and put the current affairs of our nation and society into perspective.
What will today's youth say about tomorrow's? I predict the above sentiments will return again like an echo... at least to those that give themselves over to pessimism.