Song 12

Youngstown: Springsteen----1995

It sounds like the steel mill in the song was first built in 1803 and was used to make cannon balls during the civil war. Then the singer's dad worked there and made tanks and bombs for WW2. The singer found himself working under the same brutal conditions in the same mill. He feels like he will die there. He doesn't feel anyone knows or cares about the suffering they have all gone through. What was it all for?

The ending was poetic but probably no one but the writer really knows what "I pray the devil takes me to stand in the fiery furnaces of hell" is supposed to mean. The song is depressing.
Suffering shows up again in America's history.