I saw the best of my generation pinball Maked up and up And looking like some of china doll
With all of Adolf moves down cold As they stood up in front of a and Roll band And always moving upward and ever To this gentle golden land
With the of them all Moonlighting as a word And the strongest of all Checking IDs outside
And the prettiest of all taking off her In front of men whose look like They were in some little hick Near Omaha, the police chief Run his car off the side of a
I saw men with dreams like the I'd had Beg outside the Seven-Eleven Till it got so they affect me anymore Than the I'd passed 'Cept that sometimes, I'd put somthing in the
I'd had the wind at my now I felt it cold in my face And for an awful long now You were the one who ever called me late at night And I really never till after you stopped calling And the emptiness, got so heavy
Broken up in the wasteland, broken up in the promised Broken up in Disneyland, up in the plastic land Broken up in the wasteland, up in the wasteland up in the wasteland
I saw Marilyn Monroe Strung up on every corner in Hollywood Like some two bit offering a discount rate And I wondered how Joe felt
I saw dead James Dean's Wandering the sidewalk troubled And I how his mama felt
I saw signs that said, "Headshots for cheap" Signs said, "Extras wanted, top dollars paid" Signs for and signs for 'Manicures' And signs for "Tanning salons" and signs for specialists Signs for "Cosmetic surgery' and signs for 'Assertiveness And I stopped to read all
And every single looked like every single block Looked like every block looked like every single block But she kept driving 'cause else kept driving And 'cause gridlock is evil and not knowing anywhere is
And those who had money looked But weren't too and those who didn't have money Didn't look so good and weren't too either And in a city of three million, two and sixty nine thousand Nine hundred four, everyone was lonely
up in the wasteland, broken up in the promised land Broken up in Disneyland, broken up in the plastic Broken up in the wasteland, broken up in the Broken up in the
And I watched as everyone I knew their lives to be watched on stage Watched on film or listened to on a And they thought, "Well, maybe way I could get a little out of this life"
And I as the best of my generation Abandoned their dreams and settled for a little money I watched TV, the papers, listend to the radio And made all the scenes And said all the right words and wore all the right And knew the of the hip people
But I still felt out of touch so I watching TV And reading the papers and to the radio And the fancy scenes and saying the right words And wearing the right and knowing the names of the hip people And I more 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 day like it used to But all there ever was was sun, sun, hot beating sun
And everyone wore sunglasses And walked around like flies under 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 up in the wasteland, broken up in the wasteland Broken up in the