I saw the best of my playing pinball Maked up and up And like some kind of china doll
With all of Adolf moves down cold As they stood up in front of a Rock and Roll And always moving and ever upward To gentle golden promised land
the smartest of them all Moonlighting as a word And the strongest of all IDs outside saloons
And the of all taking off her clothes In front of men eyes look 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 me anymore Than the I'd passed 'Cept that sometimes, I'd put in the mailbox
I'd had the wind at my back now I felt it in my face And for an awful time now You were the only one who ever called me at night And I really never noticed after you stopped calling And the emptiness, got so heavy
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 up in the wasteland
I saw dead Monroe Strung up on every street corner in Like some two bit whore offering a rate And I how Joe Dimaggio felt
I saw dead James ghost the sidewalk looking troubled And I wondered how his mama
I saw signs that said, "Headshots for cheap" Signs said, "Extras wanted, top dollars paid" Signs for and signs for 'Manicures' And signs for "Tanning salons" and signs for 'Wardrobe Signs for "Cosmetic surgery' and for 'Assertiveness training' And I to read them all
And every single block looked like every single Looked like single block looked like every single block But she kept driving everyone else kept driving And 'cause gridlock is evil and not anywhere is evil
And those who had looked good But weren't too happy and those who have money Didn't so good and weren't too happy either And in a city of three million, two hundred and sixty nine Nine hundred eighty four, everyone was
Broken up in the wasteland, broken up in the 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 I knew spent their lives Trying to be watched on 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 of my generation Abandoned dreams and settled for making a little money I watched TV, the papers, listend to the radio And made all the fancy And said all the right and wore all the right clothes And knew the of the hip people
But I still felt out of so I stopped watching TV And reading the papers and listening to the And the fancy scenes 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 anymore
And I felt you slipping away and I felt slipping from you And I wanted than anything else For it to rain for one day like it used to But all there was was sun, relentless sun, hot beating sun
And everyone wore sunglasses And walked around like flies magnifying glass their eyes removed
Broken up in the wasteland, broken up in the land Broken up in Disneyland, up in the plastic land Broken up in the wasteland, up in the wasteland Broken up in the wasteland, up in the wasteland Broken up in the