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I saw the best of my generation playing pinball |
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Make-up on, all caked up |
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Looking like some kind of china doll |
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With all of Adolf Hitler's moves down cold |
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As they stood up in front |
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Of a rock and roll band |
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And always moving upward and ever upward |
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To this gentle golden promised land |
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With the smartest of them all |
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Moonlighting as a word processor |
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And the strongest of them all |
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Checking IDs outside a saloon |
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And the prettiest of all |
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Taking off her clothes |
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In front of men |
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Whose eyes look like they were in some little hick town |
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Near Omaha |
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Watching the police chief |
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Run his car off the side of a bridge |
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I saw a men with dreams |
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Like the ones I'd had |
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Beg quarters outside the Seven-Eleven |
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Till it got so they didn't affect me anymore |
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Than the mailboxes I'd passed |
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'Cept that sometimes |
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I'd put somthing in the mailbox |
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I'd had the wind at my back |
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Now I felt it cold in my face |
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And for an awful long time now |
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You were the only one who ever |
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Called me late at night |
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And I really never noticed |
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Till after you stopped calling |
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And the emptiness |
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And silence |
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Got so heavy |
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Broken up in the wasteland |
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Broken up in the promised land |
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Broken up in Disneyland |
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Broken up in the plastic land |
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Broken up in the wasteland |
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Broken up in the wasteland |
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Broken up in the wasteland |
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I saw dead Marilyn Monroe |
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Strung up on every street corner in Hollywood |
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Like some two bit whore |
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Offering a discount rate |
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And I wondered how Joe Dimaggio felt |
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I saw dead James Dean's ghost |
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Wandering the sidewalk looking troubled |
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And I wondered how his mama felt |
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I saw signs that said "Headshots done for cheap" |
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Signs that said "Extras wanted, top dollars paid" |
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Signs for "Haircuts" |
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Signs for "Manicures" |
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And signs for "Tanning salons" |
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And signs for "Wardrobe specialists" |
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Signs for "Cosmetic surgery" |
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And signs for "Assertiveness training" |
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And I stopped to read them all |
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And every single block |
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Looked like every single block |
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Looked like every single block |
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Looked like every single block |
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But she kept driving |
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'Cause everyone else kept driving |
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And cause gridlock is evil |
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And not knowing anywhere is evil |
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And those that had money |
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Looked good but weren't too happy |
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And those who didn't have money |
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Didn't look so good and weren't too happy either |
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And in a city of three million |
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Two hundred and sixty nine thousand |
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Nine hundred eighty four |
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Everyone was lonely |
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Broken up in the wasteland |
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Broken up in the promised land |
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Broken up in Disneyland |
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Broken up in the plastic land |
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Broken up in the wasteland |
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Broken up in the wasteland |
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Broken up in the wasteland |
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And I watched as everyone I knew |
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Spent their lives |
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Trying to be watched on stage |
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Watched on film |
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Or listened to on a record |
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And they thought |
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"Well, maybe that way |
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I could get a little love out of this life" |
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And I watched as the best of my generation |
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Abandoned their dreams |
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And settled for making a little money |
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I watched TV |
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Read the papers |
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Listend to the radio |
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And made all the fancy scenes |
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And said all the right words |
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And wore all the right clothes |
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And knew the names of the hip people |
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But I still felt out of touch |
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So I stopped watching TV |
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And reading the papers |
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And listening to the radio |
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And making the fancy scenes |
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And saying the right words |
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And wearing the right clothes |
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And knowing the names of the hip people |
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And I felt more out of touch than ever |
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But I didn't care anymore |
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And I felt you slipping away |
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And I felt myself slipping from you |
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And I wanted more than anything else |
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For it to rain for one whole day |
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Like it used to |
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But all there ever was was sun |
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Relentless sun |
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Hot beating sun |
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And everyone wore their sunglasses |
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And walked around like flies |
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Under magnifyng glass |
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With their eyes removed |
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Broken up in the wasteland |
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Broken up in the promised land |
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Broken up in Disneyland |
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Broken up in the plastic land |
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Broken up in the wasteland |
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Broken up in the wasteland |
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Broken up in the wasteland |