I saw the of my generation playing pinball up and caked up And looking like some of china doll
With all of Adolf Hitler's moves down As they stood up in of a Rock and Roll band And moving upward and ever upward To this golden promised land
With the of them all Moonlighting as a processor And the of them all Checking IDs saloons
And the prettiest of all off her clothes In front of men whose eyes like were in some little hick 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 affect me anymore Than the mailboxes I'd 'Cept sometimes, I'd put somthing in the mailbox
I'd had the at my back now I felt it cold in my face And for an long time now You were the only one who called me late at night And I really never noticed till after you stopped And the emptiness, silence got so
Broken up in the wasteland, broken up in the promised up in Disneyland, broken up in the plastic land Broken up in the wasteland, up in the wasteland Broken up in the
I saw dead Marilyn Strung up on street corner in Hollywood Like some two bit whore offering a rate And I how Joe Dimaggio felt
I saw James Dean's ghost Wandering the looking troubled And I how his mama felt
I saw signs that said, "Headshots for cheap" Signs that said, "Extras wanted, top paid" Signs for and signs for 'Manicures' And signs for "Tanning salons" and signs for 'Wardrobe Signs for "Cosmetic surgery' and signs for 'Assertiveness And I to read them all
And every single block looked like single block Looked every single block looked like every single block But she kept driving 'cause everyone else driving And 'cause gridlock is evil and not knowing anywhere is
And those who had money good But weren't too happy and who didn't have money look so good and weren't too happy either And in a of three million, two hundred and sixty nine thousand Nine eighty four, everyone was lonely
up in the wasteland, broken up in the promised land Broken up in Disneyland, up in the plastic land Broken up in the wasteland, up in the wasteland Broken up in the
And I watched as I knew spent their lives Trying to be watched on Watched on film or listened to on a And thought, "Well, maybe that way I could get a little out of this life"
And I watched as the of my generation their dreams and settled for making a little money I watched TV, read the papers, listend to the And made all the fancy And said all the words and wore all the right clothes And knew the of the hip people
But I still felt out of touch so I stopped TV And reading the and listening to the radio And making the fancy and saying the right words And wearing the right clothes and the names of the hip people And I felt more out of touch than ever but I didn't care
And I felt you slipping away and I myself slipping from you And I wanted more than else For it to rain for one day like it used to But all ever was was sun, relentless sun, hot beating sun
And everyone their sunglasses And walked like flies under magnifying glass With their removed
Broken up in the wasteland, broken up in the land Broken up in Disneyland, broken up in the land Broken up in the wasteland, broken up in the Broken up in the wasteland, up in the wasteland Broken up in the