A Good Song 'Living For The City'

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Living for the city is a very good song and something to think about. This song has a great meaning to it. It has multiple meanings to it and it is a hit from 1973. Here is the meaning that I found in this “Living for the City” song. The first two verses have a really good meaning to them. A poor boy was born in Mississippi and struggling for money in this town. His parents are helping him through it and motivating him through this hard time in Mississippi. In the lyric’s it says Living just enough for the city, this means they are barely making it and squeezing by in Mississippi. This song is telling you that they weren’t a wealthy family and they are struggling with the money and paying the bills and buying their things. It is basically telling you that they are not a rich family and it is hard for them. His parents are motivating him through the whole thing. The second paragraph is about work for them. It is really hard for all of them to make money. His father works some days really hard for a whole fourteen hours. Even with his dad working fourteen hours …show more content…

His sister is black, which we can assume that their family are all African American. His sister gets up early every day and walks too school. This can explain why it says she has very strong legs. With his sister walking all the time we know that they don’t have a car because they cannot afford one for their family. It says “Her clothes are old but never are they dirty.” I assume that they can’t afford new cloths for their family but they do know how to take care of their cloths. They know how to take care of their things because they know that they can’t afford anything new. The next paragraph is about the boy. It says that the boy is smarter than many. Basically saying that he has the potential in succeeding. He has patients but it is running out. It is very hard for him to find a job just because he is black. In Mississippi, they were racist at the

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