I saw the best of my generation playing up and caked up And looking like some kind of doll
With all of Adolf Hitler's moves down As stood up in front of a Rock and Roll band And always moving upward and upward To this gentle promised land
With the smartest of all Moonlighting as a word And the of them all IDs outside saloons
And the prettiest of all off her clothes In front of men whose eyes like were in some little hick town Near Omaha, watching the chief Run his car off the of a bridge
I saw men with like the ones I'd had Beg outside the Seven-Eleven Till it got so didn't affect me anymore Than the I'd passed 'Cept sometimes, I'd put somthing in the mailbox
I'd had the wind at my back now I it cold in my face And for an awful time now You the only one who ever called me late at night And I really never 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 up on every street corner in Hollywood Like two bit whore offering a discount rate And I how Joe Dimaggio felt
I saw dead Dean's ghost Wandering the looking troubled And I wondered how his mama
I saw signs said, "Headshots done for cheap" Signs that said, "Extras wanted, top paid" for 'Haircuts' and signs for 'Manicures' And signs for "Tanning salons" and signs for specialists 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 block But she kept driving everyone else kept driving And 'cause gridlock is evil and not knowing is evil
And those who had money looked But weren't too happy and those who have money Didn't look so good and 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 Broken up in the wasteland, broken up in the Broken up in the
And I watched as everyone I knew spent lives to be watched on stage Watched on film or to on a record And they thought, "Well, that way I could get a little out of this life"
And I watched as the 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 scenes And said all the right words and wore all the clothes And the names of the hip people
But I felt out of touch so I stopped watching TV And reading the papers and listening to the And making the scenes and saying the right words And wearing the clothes and knowing the names of the hip people And I felt out of touch than ever but I didn't care anymore
And I you slipping away and I felt myself slipping from you And I more than anything else For it to rain for one whole day it used to But all ever was was sun, relentless sun, hot beating sun
And everyone wore their And walked around like flies magnifying glass With their removed
Broken up in the wasteland, up in the promised land Broken up in Disneyland, up in the plastic land Broken up in the wasteland, broken up in the Broken up in the wasteland, broken up in the Broken up in the