Clean Cut Kid - Bob Dylan

Everybody's asking why he couldn't adjust

Adjust to what a dream that 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 took a 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

And they made a killer out of him

That's what they did

They said "Listen boy you're just a pup"

They sent him to a napalm health spa to shape up

They gave him d**e to smoke drinks and pills

A jeep to drive blood to spill

They said "Congratulation you got what it takes"

They sent him back into the race without any brakes

They took a clean-cut kid

But they made a killer out of him

That's what they did

He bought the American dream but it put him in doubt

Only game he could play was Russian roulette

He drank Coca-Cola he was eating Wonder Bread

He ate Burger Kings he was well fed

He went to Hollywood to see Peter O'Toole

He stole a Rolls Royce and drove in a swimming pool

They took a clean-cut kid

But they made a killer out of him

That's what they did

He could've sold insurance owned a restaurant or bar

He could've been an accountant or a tennis star

He was wearing boxing gloves took a dive one day

Off the Golden Gate Bridge into China Bay

His mama walks the floor his daddy weeps and moans

They gotta sleep together in a home they don't own

They took a clean-cut kid

And they made a killer out of him

That's what they did

Everybody's asking why he didn't adjust

All he ever wanted was somebody to trust

They took his head and turned it inside out

He never did know what it was all about

He had a steady job he joined the choir

He never did plan to walk the high wire

They took a clean-cut kid

And they made a killer out of him

That's what they did