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Everybody's asking why he couldn't adjust |
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Adjust to what? |
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A dream that bust? |
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He was a clean-cut kid |
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And they made a killer out of him |
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That's what they did |
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They said what's up is down |
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They said what isn't is |
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They put ideas in his head |
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That he thought were his |
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He was a clean-cut kid |
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But they made a killer out of him |
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That's what they did |
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He was on the baseball team |
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He was in the marching band |
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When he was ten years old |
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He had a watermelon stand |
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He was a clean-cut kid |
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And they made a killer out of him |
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That's what they did |
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They said, "Listen boy, you're just a pup" |
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They sent him to a napalm health spa to shape up |
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They gave him dope to smoke, drinks and pills |
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A jeep to drive, blood to spill |
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They said "Congratulations |
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You got what it takes" |
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They sent him back |
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Into the rat race without any brakes |
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He was a clean-cut kid |
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But they made a killer out of him |
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That's what they did |
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He bought the American dream but it put him in debt |
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Only game he could play was Russian roulette |
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He drank Coca-Cola, he was eating Wonder Bread |
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He ate Burger Kings, he was well fed |
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He went to Hollywood |
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To see Peter O'Toole |
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He stole a Rolls Royce |
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And drove it in a swimming pool |
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They took a clean-cut kid |
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And they made a killer out of him |
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That's what they did |
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He could've sold insurance, owned a restaurant or bar |
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He could've been an accountant or a tennis star |
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He's wearing boxing gloves, took a dive one day |
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Off the Golden Gate Bridge into China Bay |
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His mama walks the floor |
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His daddy weeps and moans |
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They gotta sleep together |
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In a home they don't own |
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They took a clean-cut kid |
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And they made a killer out of him |
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That's what they did |
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Well, everybody's asking why he didn't adjust |
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All he ever wanted was somebody to trust |
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They took his head and turned it inside out |
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He never did know what it was all about |
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He had a steady job |
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He joined the choir |
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He never did plan to walk the high wire |
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They took a clean-cut kid |
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And they made a killer out of him |
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That's what they did |
