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 dope 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.