Clean Cut Kid

Bob Dylan

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Cut Kid - Bob Dylan --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Bob Dylan From: "Empire Burlesque" (1985) Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] | | % | % | % | (break) [Verse 1] Everybody’s asking why he couldn’t adjust Adjust to what a dream that bust? He was a clean-cut kid Well they made a killer out of him that’s what they did (break) | | % | % | % | (break) [Verse 2] They said what’s up is down they said what isn’t is They put ideas in his head he thought were his He was a clean-cut kid But they made a killer out of him that’s what they did (break) | | % | % | % | (break) [Verse 3] 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 They made a killer out of him that’s what they did (break) | | % | % | % | (break) [Bridge 1] 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 (break) [Verse 4] They said “Congratulations you got what it takes” They sent him back into the rat race without any brakes He was a clean-cut kid They made a killer out of him that’s what they did (break) | | % | % | % | (break) [Bridge 2] He bought the American dream but it put him in debt The only game he could play was Russian roulette He drank Coca-Cola he was eating Wonder Bread Ate Burger Kings he was well fed (break) [Verse 5] He went to Hollywood to see Peter O’Toole He stole a Rolls-Royce and drove it in a swimming pool They took a clean-cut kid And they made a killer out of him that’s what they did (break) | | % | % | % | (break) [Bridge 3] He could’ve sold insurance owned a restaurant or bar 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 (break) [Verse 6] 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 (break) | | % | % | % | (break) [Bridge 4] Well everybody’s asking why he couldn’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 (break) [Verse 7] + coda 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 (break)

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La chanson évoque le parcours tragique d'un jeune homme prometteur dont les rêves et les aspirations sont détruits par les attentes et la pression de la société. Alors qu'il était un enfant bien élevé, pris dans les plaisirs simples de sa jeunesse, il est transformé en un individu désillusionné par le rêve américain, paradoxalement devenu un tueur par le biais d’expériences traumatisantes et de manipulations. Il cherche désespérément une figure de confiance dans un monde qui le pousse à l'autodestruction, laissant derrière lui une famille brisée. Le contexte semble refléter les troubles des années 1980, une époque marquée par les excès et la déception, où de nombreux jeunes se retrouvaient pris au piège entre leur innocence et les exigences d'une société souvent cruelle. Les paroles révèlent les dangers d'une vie sans repères, où la quête de bonheur peut conduire à une réalité sombre.

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