Everybody's actin' why he
couldn't adjust
Adjust to what?
A dream to bust
They took a clean cut kid
And they made a killer out of him,
that's what they did
They said what's up is down,
they said what isn't is
They put ideas in his head
that he thought were his
They stripped the clean cut kid
But they made a killer out of him,
that's what they did
He was on the baseball team,
he was in the marching band
When he was ten years old,
he had a watermelon stand
He was a clean -cut kid
But they made a killer out of him,
that's what they did
They said, listen boy, you're just a pup
They sent you to a napalm hella spa,
too shabby for
They gave you dope to smoke,
drinks and pills
A Jeep to drive and blood to spill
They said, congratulations,
you got what it
They sent him back into the rat race
without any brakes
They took the clean -cut kid
But they made a killer out of him,
that's what they did
He fought the American dream,
but it put him in debt
The only game he could play
was Russian Roulette
He drank Coca -Cola,
he was eatin' undergrads
He ate Burger King, he was well fed
He went to Hollywood to
see Peter O'Toole
He stole a Rolls -Royce
and drove it in a swimmin' pool
He was the King of Kings
But they made a killer out of him,
that's what they did
He could have sold his shirts
on the Western or bar
He could have bailed in a county
to watch tennis star
He's wearing boxing gloves,
he took a dive one day
Off the Golden Gate Bridge
and retired in bed
His mama walked to the floor,
his daddy kicks and moans
They gotta sleep together
in a home they don't own
They took a drink of gin
And they made a killer out of him,
that's what they did
Everybody asked him what he did,
but just all he ever wanted
was somebody to trust
They took him in, they turned him inside out
He never didn't know what it was all about
He had a steady job, you know why
He never did plan to walk the high wire
They took a drink of kid
And they made a killer out of him
That's what they did