I saw the best of my playing pinball Maked up and up And looking like kind of china doll
With all of Adolf Hitler's down cold As they up in front of a Rock and Roll band And always moving upward and upward To this gentle promised land
With the of them all as a word processor And the strongest of all Checking IDs saloons
And the prettiest of all taking off her In front of men whose eyes like They in some little hick town Omaha, watching the police chief Run his car off the of a bridge
I saw men with dreams like the I'd had Beg outside the Seven-Eleven Till it got so they didn't affect me Than the mailboxes I'd 'Cept sometimes, I'd put somthing 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 only one who called me late at night And I really never noticed after you stopped calling And the emptiness, silence got so
Broken up in the wasteland, broken up in the land 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 every corner in Hollywood Like two bit whore offering a discount rate And I how Joe Dimaggio felt
I saw dead James Dean's Wandering the looking troubled And I wondered how his felt
I saw that said, "Headshots done for cheap" Signs that said, "Extras wanted, top paid" Signs for 'Haircuts' and for 'Manicures' And for "Tanning salons" and signs for 'Wardrobe specialists Signs for "Cosmetic surgery' and signs for training' And I to read them all
And single block looked like every single block Looked like every block looked like every single block But she kept driving 'cause everyone else driving And 'cause gridlock is evil and not anywhere is evil
And those who had looked good But weren't too happy and who didn't have money look so good and weren't too happy either And in a city of three million, two hundred and nine thousand Nine hundred eighty four, was lonely
up in the wasteland, broken up in the promised land Broken up in Disneyland, up in the plastic land up in the wasteland, broken up in the wasteland Broken up in the
And I watched as everyone I knew spent lives Trying to be watched on Watched on or listened to on a record And thought, "Well, maybe that way I could get a little love out of life"
And I as the best of my generation Abandoned their and settled for making a little money I watched TV, the papers, listend to the radio And all the fancy scenes And said all the right words and wore all the right And knew the names of the hip
But I still felt out of so I stopped watching TV And the papers and listening to the radio And making the fancy scenes and the right words And wearing the clothes 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 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 land Broken up in the wasteland, up in the wasteland Broken up in the wasteland, up in the wasteland Broken up in the