I saw the best of my generation playing Maked up and up And looking like some of china doll
With all of Hitler's moves down cold As they up in front of a Rock and Roll band And always upward and ever upward To gentle golden promised land
With the smartest of all Moonlighting as a processor And the strongest of all Checking IDs outside
And the prettiest of all taking off her In front of men whose eyes like They were in some little town Near Omaha, watching the police Run his car off the side of a
I saw men with dreams like the I'd had Beg quarters the Seven-Eleven Till it got so they didn't affect me Than the I'd passed 'Cept sometimes, I'd put somthing in the mailbox
I'd had the wind at my back now I it cold in my face And for an awful time now You were the one who ever called me late at night And I really never noticed till after you stopped And the emptiness, silence got so
up in the wasteland, broken up in the promised land Broken up in Disneyland, broken up in the plastic up in the wasteland, broken up in the wasteland Broken up in the
I saw Marilyn Monroe Strung up on every corner in Hollywood Like two bit whore offering a discount rate And I how Joe Dimaggio felt
I saw dead Dean's ghost Wandering the sidewalk troubled And I wondered how his mama
I saw signs said, "Headshots done for cheap" that said, "Extras wanted, top dollars paid" Signs for 'Haircuts' and for 'Manicures' And signs for "Tanning salons" and signs for specialists for "Cosmetic surgery' and signs for 'Assertiveness training' And I stopped to them all
And every single block like every single block Looked every single block looked like every single block But she driving 'cause everyone else kept driving And gridlock is evil and not knowing anywhere is evil
And those who had money good But weren't too happy and those who have money Didn't look so and weren't too happy either And in a city of three million, two and sixty nine thousand hundred eighty four, everyone was lonely
Broken up in the wasteland, up in the promised land Broken up in Disneyland, broken up in the plastic Broken up in the wasteland, up in the wasteland up in the wasteland
And I watched as everyone I knew spent lives to be watched on stage Watched on film or to on a record And they thought, "Well, that way I could get a love out of this life"
And I watched as the best of my Abandoned their dreams and settled for making a little I watched TV, read the papers, to the radio And made all the scenes And all the right words and wore all the right clothes And knew the names of the hip
But I still out of touch so I stopped watching TV And reading the papers and listening to the And making the fancy scenes and saying the words And the right clothes and knowing the names of the hip people And I felt out of touch than ever but I didn't care anymore
And I felt you slipping away and I felt myself from you And I wanted more than anything For it to rain for one whole day it used to But all there ever was was sun, relentless sun, hot sun
And everyone their sunglasses And walked around like flies magnifying glass With their removed
Broken up in the wasteland, broken up in the promised Broken up in Disneyland, broken up in the plastic Broken up in the wasteland, up in the wasteland Broken up in the wasteland, broken up in the Broken up in the