I don't think it necessarily has to be about his own personal home town, just inspired by it. This song is more about how the times changed and it could be talking about almost any small(ish) town in North America. It could also echo how he sees the world with more reality and less innocence as he grows up and grows older. First he's an eight year old boy, then a high school student, then an unemployed husband and father with a son who is presumably about the age he was at the start of the song. He wants his son to remember where they were both from as the family will probably be moving away to find work somewhere else.
It doesn't have to be about a specific town, as a lot of places were suffering the same problems. But it is most definitely about his hometown of Freehold Borough, New Jersey. He has stated such.
It doesn't have to be about a specific town, as a lot of places were suffering the same problems. But it is most definitely about his hometown of Freehold Borough, New Jersey. He has stated such.
I don't think it necessarily has to be about his own personal home town, just inspired by it. This song is more about how the times changed and it could be talking about almost any small(ish) town in North America. It could also echo how he sees the world with more reality and less innocence as he grows up and grows older. First he's an eight year old boy, then a high school student, then an unemployed husband and father with a son who is presumably about the age he was at the start of the song. He wants his son to remember where they were both from as the family will probably be moving away to find work somewhere else.
It doesn't have to be about a specific town, as a lot of places were suffering the same problems. But it is most definitely about his hometown of Freehold Borough, New Jersey. He has stated such.
It doesn't have to be about a specific town, as a lot of places were suffering the same problems. But it is most definitely about his hometown of Freehold Borough, New Jersey. He has stated such.