I saw the of my generation playing pinball up and caked up And like some kind of china doll
all of Adolf Hitler's moves down cold As stood up in front of a Rock and Roll band And always moving upward and upward To this golden promised land
With the of them all as a word processor And the of them all Checking IDs saloons
And the prettiest of all off her clothes In front of men whose eyes like They were in little hick town Near Omaha, watching the police Run his car off the side of a
I saw men with like the ones I'd had Beg outside the Seven-Eleven Till it got so they affect me anymore Than the mailboxes I'd 'Cept that sometimes, I'd put in the mailbox
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, silence got so
Broken up in the wasteland, 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 dead Monroe Strung up on every street in Hollywood some two bit whore offering a discount rate And I how Joe Dimaggio felt
I saw James Dean's ghost the sidewalk looking 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 Signs for "Cosmetic surgery' and signs for 'Assertiveness And I to read them all
And every single block looked like every block Looked every single block looked like every single block But she driving 'cause everyone else kept driving And 'cause gridlock is and not knowing anywhere is evil
And who had money looked good But weren't too happy and 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
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 Broken up in the
And I watched as I knew spent their lives Trying to be on stage on film or listened to on a record And thought, "Well, maybe that way I could get a little out of this life"
And I as the best of my generation Abandoned their and settled for making a little money I watched TV, read the papers, to the radio And all the fancy 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 clothes 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 slipping you And I wanted more anything else For it to for one whole day like it used to But all ever was was sun, relentless sun, hot beating sun
And everyone their sunglasses And walked around flies under magnifying glass their eyes removed
Broken up in the wasteland, up in the promised land up in Disneyland, broken up in the plastic land Broken up in the wasteland, up in the wasteland Broken up in the wasteland, broken up in the up in the wasteland