I saw the best of my generation playing Maked up and up And looking some kind of china doll
With all of Adolf moves down cold As they up in front of a Rock and Roll band And always moving upward and ever To this golden promised land
With the of them all Moonlighting as a word And the of them all Checking IDs saloons
And the prettiest of all off her clothes In front of men eyes look like They were in some hick town Omaha, watching the police 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 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 ever me late at night And I really never noticed till you stopped calling And the emptiness, silence got so
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 dead Monroe Strung up on street corner in Hollywood Like two bit whore offering a discount rate And I how Joe Dimaggio felt
I saw James Dean's ghost Wandering the sidewalk troubled And I wondered how his felt
I saw signs said, "Headshots done for cheap" Signs said, "Extras wanted, top dollars paid" for 'Haircuts' and signs for 'Manicures' And signs for "Tanning salons" and signs for specialists Signs for "Cosmetic surgery' and signs for training' And I to read them all
And every block looked like every single block Looked like every single block looked like every single But she kept driving 'cause everyone else driving And 'cause gridlock is evil and not knowing anywhere is
And who had money looked good But weren't too happy and those who have money Didn't look so good and weren't too either And in a city of million, two hundred and sixty nine thousand Nine hundred eighty four, everyone was
up in the wasteland, broken up in the promised land Broken up in Disneyland, broken up in the plastic Broken up in the wasteland, up in the wasteland Broken up in the
And I watched as everyone I knew their lives Trying to be watched on Watched on film or listened to on a And they thought, "Well, maybe way I get a little love out of this life"
And I watched as the of my generation Abandoned their dreams and settled for making a little I watched TV, read the papers, to the radio And all the fancy scenes And said all the right and wore all the right clothes And the names of the hip people
But I still felt out of so I stopped watching TV And reading the papers and to the radio And making the scenes and saying the right words And wearing the right clothes and knowing the of the hip people And I felt more out of touch than ever but I didn't anymore
And I felt you away and I felt myself slipping from you And I wanted more anything else For it to for one whole day like it used to But all ever was was sun, relentless sun, hot beating sun
And wore their sunglasses And walked around like flies under magnifying With their eyes
Broken up in the wasteland, broken up in the 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 up in the wasteland