Everybody's actin' why he
They took a clean cut kid
And they made a killer out of him,
They said what's up is down,
They put ideas in his head
They stripped the clean cut kid
But they made a killer out of him,
He was on the baseball team,
he was in the marching band
When he was ten years old,
he had a watermelon stand
But they made a killer out of him,
They said, listen boy, you're just a pup
They sent you to a napalm hella spa,
They gave you dope to smoke,
A Jeep to drive and blood to spill
They said, congratulations,
They sent him back into the rat race
They took the clean -cut kid
But they made a killer out of him,
He fought the American dream,
The only game he could play
He ate Burger King, he was well fed
and drove it in a swimmin' pool
But they made a killer out of him,
He could have sold his shirts
He could have bailed in a county
He's wearing boxing gloves,
Off the Golden Gate Bridge
His mama walked to the floor,
his daddy kicks and moans
They gotta sleep together
And they made a killer out of him,
Everybody asked him what he did,
but just all he ever wanted
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
And they made a killer out of him