Wasteland (Album Version)-Dan Bern

[ti:Wasteland] [ar:Dan Bern] [al:DAN BERN] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Wasteland (Album Version) - Dan Bern [00:16.08]I saw the best of my [00:17.36]Generation playing pinball [00:19.34] [00:22.22]Maked up and caked up [00:23.63]And looking like some [00:24.72]Kind of china doll [00:26.50] [00:29.13]With all of Adolf Hitler's moves down cold [00:32.28]As they stood up in front [00:33.66]Of a Rock and Roll band [00:36.69] [00:39.83]And always moving [00:40.36]Upward and ever upward [00:42.33]To this gentle golden promised land [00:47.29] [00:49.37]With the smartest of them all [00:51.17]Moonlighting as a word processor [00:53.51]And the strongest of them all [00:55.22]Checking IDs outside saloons [00:57.28] [00:57.97]And the prettiest of [00:59.03]All taking off her clothes [01:01.36]In front of men whose eyes look like [01:03.55]They were in some little hick town [01:05.14]Near Omaha watching the police chief [01:08.28]Run his car off the side of a bridge [01:10.81] [01:13.97]I saw men with dreams [01:15.49]Like the ones I'd had [01:17.22]Beg quarters outside the Seven-Eleven [01:20.00]Till it got so they didn't affect me anymore [01:22.70]Than the mailboxes I'd passed [01:24.30]'Cept that sometimes [01:25.75]I'd put somthing in the mailbox [01:29.46] [01:32.13]I'd had the wind at my back [01:35.23]Now I felt it cold in my face [01:37.88]And for an awful long time now [01:40.59]You were the only one [01:41.59]Who ever called me late at night [01:43.32]And I really never noticed [01:44.59]Till after you stopped calling [01:46.24] [01:46.75]And the emptiness [01:48.37]Silence got so heavy [01:52.65] [01:56.61]Broken up in the wasteland [01:58.92] [02:00.17]Broken up in the promised land [02:02.75] [02:03.81]Broken up in Disneyland [02:04.79] [02:07.06]Broken up in the plastic land [02:11.01]Broken up in the wasteland [02:13.57] [02:14.49]Broken up in the wasteland [02:16.87] [02:17.96]Broken up in the wasteland [02:20.97] [02:27.66]I saw dead Marilyn Monroe [02:29.67]Strung up on every [02:30.71]Street corner in Hollywood [02:31.94]Like some two bit [02:32.95]Whore offering a discount rate [02:35.50]And I wondered how Joe Dimaggio felt [02:38.37] [02:39.09]I saw dead James Dean's ghost [02:42.89]Wandering the sidewalk looking troubled [02:44.86] [02:45.89]And I wondered how his mama felt [02:48.00] [02:50.25]I saw signs that said [02:51.50]"Headshots done for cheap" [02:53.68]Signs that said "Extras wanted top dollars paid" [02:56.92]Signs for 'Haircuts' and signs for 'Manicures' [03:00.33]And signs for "Tanning salons" [03:02.16]And signs for 'Wardrobe specialists [03:04.16]Signs for "Cosmetic surgery' [03:06.11]And signs for 'Assertiveness training' [03:07.77]And I stopped to read them all [03:11.27]And every single block [03:12.32]Looked like every single block [03:14.33]Looked like every single [03:15.62]Block looked like every single block [03:18.09]But she kept driving [03:19.25] [03:20.19]'Cause everyone else kept driving [03:22.07]And 'cause gridlock is evil and [03:24.13]Not knowing anywhere is evil [03:28.20] [03:29.19]And those who had money looked good [03:31.22]But weren't too happy and [03:32.91]Those who didn't have money [03:34.02]Didn't look so good [03:34.93]And weren't too happy either [03:36.11]And in a city of three million [03:37.98]Two hundred and sixty nine thousand [03:40.02]Nine hundred eighty four [03:41.27]Everyone was lonely [03:46.75] [03:48.99]Broken up in the wasteland [03:52.57]Broken up in the promised land [03:55.11] [03:55.93]Broken up in Disneyland [03:58.60] [03:59.46]Broken up in the plastic land [04:03.11]Broken up in the wasteland [04:05.79] [04:06.55]Broken up in the wasteland [04:09.93]Broken up in the wasteland [04:13.37] [04:19.89]And I watched as everyone [04:22.18]I knew spent their lives [04:24.22]Trying to be watched on stage [04:26.33]Watched on film or listened to on a record [04:29.53]And they thought [04:30.44]"Well maybe that way [04:31.54]I could get a little love out of this life" [04:34.16] [04:35.54]And I watched as the best of my generation [04:39.19]Abandoned their dreams and [04:41.78]Settled for making a little money [04:43.72] [04:45.97]I watched TV read the papers [04:49.48]Listend to the radio [04:50.84]And made all the fancy scenes [04:52.61]And said all the right words [04:54.02]And wore all the right clothes [04:55.82]And knew the names of the hip people [04:58.05]But I still felt out of touch [05:00.03]So I stopped watching TV [05:01.73]And reading the papers and [05:03.14]Listening to the radio [05:04.75]And making the fancy scenes [05:06.46]And saying the right words [05:08.04]And wearing the right clothes [05:09.39]And knowing the names of the hip people [05:11.54]And I felt more out of touch [05:13.18]Than ever but I didn't care anymore [05:18.50] [05:20.04]And I felt you slipping away and [05:23.48]I felt myself slipping from you [05:26.01]And I wanted more than anything else [05:27.93]For it to rain for one whole day like it used to [05:31.23]But all there ever was was sun [05:33.19]Relentless sun hot beating sun [05:36.07]And everyone wore their sunglasses [05:38.34]And walked around like [05:39.30]Flies under magnifying glass [05:41.88]With their eyes removed [05:46.67] [05:48.25]Broken up in the wasteland [05:50.92] [05:51.59]Broken up in the promised land [05:54.04] [05:54.98]Broken up in Disneyland [05:58.54]Broken up in the plastic land [06:02.33]Broken up in the wasteland [06:05.58]Broken up in the wasteland [06:09.00]Broken up in the wasteland [06:12.32]Broken up in the wasteland [06:15.41] [06:15.98]Broken up in the wasteland