I saw the best of my generation playing Maked up and up And looking some kind 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 upward and ever To this gentle golden 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 whose look like They in some little hick town Near Omaha, watching the 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 didn't affect me anymore the mailboxes I'd passed '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 never noticed till after you stopped calling And the emptiness, silence got so
up in the wasteland, broken up in the promised land Broken up in Disneyland, broken up in the land up in the wasteland, broken up in the wasteland Broken up in the
I saw dead Marilyn Strung up on every street in Hollywood Like some two bit whore a discount rate And I wondered how Joe Dimaggio
I saw James Dean's ghost the sidewalk looking troubled And I how his mama felt
I saw signs 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 signs for training' And I stopped to them all
And every single block looked like single block Looked like single block looked like every single block But she kept driving 'cause everyone else kept 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 Didn't look so good and weren't too happy And in a city of million, two hundred and sixty nine thousand Nine hundred eighty four, was lonely
up in the wasteland, broken 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
And I watched as everyone I knew spent lives to be watched on stage Watched on or listened to on a record And they thought, "Well, that way I could get a little out of this life"
And I watched as the best of my 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 words and wore all the right clothes And knew the of the hip people
But I still out of touch so I stopped watching TV And reading the papers and listening to the 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 away and I felt myself slipping from you And I wanted more anything else For it to rain for one whole day it used to But all there ever was was sun, relentless sun, hot sun
And everyone wore their And walked around like flies under glass With their eyes
up in the wasteland, broken 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 wasteland, up in the wasteland Broken up in the