Intro
G#* 320003 / 320013 (G / Gadd11)
[Intro]
G#* G# G#* G# G* G G/G
[Verse 1]
G# D# C#
I saw the best of my generation playing pinball
G# D# C# D#
Maked-up and caked-up and looking like some kind of china doll
G# D# Fm C# D#
With all of Adolf Hitler's moves down cold as they stood up in front of a rock and roll band
G# D# Fm C# D#
And always moving upward and ever upward to this gentle, golden promised land
G# D#
With the smartest of them all moonlighting as a word processor
Fm C# G#
And the strongest of them all checking IDs outside saloons
D# Fm
And the prettiest of all taking off her clothes in front of men
C# G# C#
Whose eyes look like they were in some little hick town near Omaha
G# C# D#
Watching the police chief run his car off the side of a bridge
G# D# Fm C#
And I saw a men with dreams like the ones I'd had beg quarters outside the 7-11
G# C#
Till it got so they didn't affect me anymore than the mailboxes I'd pass
G# C# D#
'Cept that sometimes I'd put something in the mailbox
Cm C#
I'd had the wind at my back, now I felt it cold in my face
G# D# Fm
And for an awful long time now you were the only one who ever called me late at night
C# G#
And I never really noticed till after you stopped calling
C# C#/C D#
And the emptiness and silence got so heavy
[Chorus]
G#
Broken up in the wasteland
Cm
Broken up in the promised land
C#
Broken up in Disneyland
D#
Broken up in the plastic land
Fm
Broken up in the wasteland
C#
Broken up in the wasteland
G#* G# G#* G G/G
Broken up in the wasteland
[Verse 2]
G# D# Fm C#
And I saw dead Marilyn Monroe strung up on every street corner in Hollywood
G# C#
Like some two bit whore offering a discount rate
D#
And I wondered how Joe Dimaggio felt
G# D# Fm C#
And I saw dead James Dean's ghost wandering the sidewalk looking troubled
D#
And I wondered how his mama felt
G# D#
I saw signs that said "Headshots done for cheap"
Fm C#
Signs that said "Extras wanted, top dollars paid"
G# C#
And signs for haircuts and signs for manicures
G# C#
And signs for tanning salons and signs for wardrobe specialists
G# C#
Signs for cosmetic surgery and signs for assertiveness training
D#
And I stopped to read them all
G# D#
And every single block looked like every single block
Fm C#
Looked like every single block looked like every single block
G# C#
But you kept driving 'cause everyone else kept driving
G# C# D#
And 'cause gridlock is evil and not knowing your way is evil
Cm
And those that had money looked good but weren't too happy
C#
And those who didn't have money didn't look so good and weren't too happy either
G# D# Fm C#
And in a city of three million two hundred and sixty nine thousand nine hundred eighty four
D#
Every one was lonely
[Chorus]
G#
Broken up in the wasteland
Cm
Broken up in the promised land
C#
Broken up in Disneyland
D#
Broken up in the plastic land
Fm
Broken up in the wasteland
C#
Broken up in the wasteland
G#* G# G#* G G/G
Broken up in the wasteland
[Verse 3]
G# D# Fm C#
And I watched as everyone I knew spent their lives
G# D# G#
Trying to be watched on stage or watched on film or listened to on a record
C# D#
And they thought, "Well, maybe that way I could get a little love out of this life"
G# D# Fm C#
And I watched as the best of my generation abandoned their dreams
D#
And settled for making a little money
G# D# Fm C#
I watched TV and read the papers, listened to the radio and made all the fancy scenes
G# C#
And said all the right words and wore all the right clothes
G# D#
And knew the names of the hip people but I still felt out of touch
Fm D# C#
So I stopped watching TV and reading the papers and listening to the radio
G# C#
And making the fancy scenes and saying the right words
G# C#
And wearing the right clothes and knowing the names of the hip people
D#
And I felt more out of touch than ever, oh, but I didn't care anymore
Cm
And I felt you slipping away
C#
And I felt myself slipping from you
G# D# Fm
And I wanted more than anything else for it to rain for one whole day like it used to
C# G# C#
But all there ever was was sun, relentless sun, hot, beating sun
G# C#
And everyone wore their sunglasses and walked around like flies
Cm D#
Under magnifying glass with their eyes removed
[Chorus]
G#
Broken up in the wasteland
Cm
Broken up in the promised land
C#
Broken up in Disneyland
D#
Broken up in the plastic land
Fm
Broken up in the wasteland
C#
Broken up in the wasteland
Fm
Broken up in the wasteland
C#
Broken up in the wasteland
G#* G
Broken up in the wasteland
[Outro]
G#* G x3
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