I saw the best of my generation pinball up and caked up And looking like some of china doll
With all of Adolf Hitler's down cold As they stood up in front of a Rock and Roll And always moving and ever upward To this gentle golden promised
With the of them all Moonlighting as a processor And the of them all Checking IDs saloons
And the prettiest of all taking off her In of men whose eyes look like They were in some little hick Omaha, watching the police chief Run his car off the side of a
I saw men with dreams the ones I'd had Beg quarters the Seven-Eleven it got so they didn't affect me anymore Than the mailboxes I'd that sometimes, I'd put somthing in the mailbox
I'd had the wind at my back now I felt it in my face And for an long time now You were the one who ever called me late at night And I really noticed till after you stopped calling And the emptiness, got so heavy
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 up in the wasteland
I saw dead Monroe Strung up on every street in Hollywood Like some two bit whore offering a rate And I wondered how Joe felt
I saw dead Dean's ghost Wandering the looking troubled And I wondered how his mama
I saw that said, "Headshots done for cheap" Signs that said, "Extras wanted, top paid" Signs for 'Haircuts' and for 'Manicures' And signs for "Tanning salons" and signs for specialists Signs for "Cosmetic surgery' and for 'Assertiveness training' And I stopped to them all
And every single block looked like single block Looked like every single block looked like every block But she driving 'cause everyone else kept driving And 'cause gridlock is and not knowing anywhere is evil
And those who had looked good But too happy 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 hundred and nine thousand Nine 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, broken up in the Broken up in the
And I watched as everyone I spent their lives to be watched on stage Watched on 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 their dreams and settled for making a little money I watched TV, read the papers, to the radio And made all the fancy And said all the right words and wore all the right And the names of the hip people
But I felt out of touch so I stopped watching TV And reading the papers and to the radio And the fancy scenes and saying the right words And wearing the right clothes and knowing the of the hip people And I felt more out of touch than ever but I didn't anymore
And I felt you slipping away and I felt myself slipping you And I more than anything else For it to rain for one whole day like it to But all there ever was was sun, sun, hot beating sun
And everyone wore their And walked around like flies magnifying glass their eyes removed
Broken up in the wasteland, 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 wasteland, broken up in the up in the wasteland