Everybody's asking why he couldn't adjust
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Adjust to what, a dream that bust ?
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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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They said what's up is down, they said what isn't is
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They put ideas in his head that he thought were his.
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They took 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, he was in the marching band
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When he was ten years old 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 "Congratulation, you got what it takes"
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They sent him back into the race without any brakes.
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They took 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 doubt
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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 to see Peter O'Toole
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He stole a Rolls Royce and drove in a swimming pool.
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They took 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 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 was 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, his daddy weeps and moans
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They gotta sleep together 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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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, 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.
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Clean-Cut Kid
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Bob Dylan |