I saw the best of my playing pinball up and caked up And looking like some of china doll
all of Adolf Hitler's moves down cold As they stood up in front of a and Roll band And always moving and ever upward To this golden promised land
the smartest of them all Moonlighting as a word And the of them all Checking IDs outside
And the prettiest of all off her clothes In front of men eyes look like They were in some little hick Near Omaha, watching the police Run his car off the side of a
I saw men with like the ones I'd had Beg quarters outside the Till it got so they affect me anymore the mailboxes I'd passed 'Cept that sometimes, I'd put in the mailbox
I'd had the wind at my back now I it cold in my face And for an awful long now You were the only one who called me late at night And I never noticed till after you stopped calling And the emptiness, got so heavy
Broken up in the wasteland, up in the promised land 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 whore offering a rate And I how Joe Dimaggio felt
I saw dead James Dean's the sidewalk looking troubled And I wondered how his felt
I saw signs that said, "Headshots for cheap" that said, "Extras wanted, top dollars paid" Signs for and signs for 'Manicures' And signs for "Tanning salons" and signs for 'Wardrobe Signs for "Cosmetic and signs for 'Assertiveness training' And I to read them all
And every single block looked every single block Looked like every single block looked like every single But she kept driving everyone else kept driving And 'cause gridlock is evil and not anywhere is evil
And those who had money looked But weren't too and those who didn't have money look so good and weren't too happy either And in a city of three million, two and sixty nine thousand Nine hundred eighty four, everyone was
Broken up in the wasteland, broken up in the land Broken up in Disneyland, broken up in the land Broken up in the wasteland, up in the wasteland up in the wasteland
And I watched as everyone I spent their lives to be watched on stage Watched on film or listened to on a And they thought, "Well, that way I could get a little love out of life"
And I watched as the best of my Abandoned their and settled for making a little money I watched TV, the papers, listend to the radio And made all the scenes And said all the words and wore all the right clothes And the names of the hip people
But I still felt out of touch so I watching TV And reading the and listening to the radio And making the fancy scenes and the right words And wearing the right and knowing the names of the hip people And I felt more out of than ever but I didn't care anymore
And I felt you away and I felt myself slipping from you And I wanted more anything else For it to rain for one whole day like it to But all there ever was was sun, relentless sun, hot sun
And everyone wore sunglasses And walked like flies under magnifying glass With their eyes
Broken up in the wasteland, broken up in the promised Broken up in Disneyland, broken up in the plastic Broken up in the wasteland, broken up in the up in the wasteland, broken up in the wasteland Broken up in the