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"Desolation Row" by Bob Dylan
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Intro
Verse 1
They're selling postcards of the hanging
They're
painting the passports
brown
The
beauty parlour is filled with sailors
The circus is in
town
Here comes the blind commissioner
They've got him in a
trance
One
hand is tied to the tightrope walker
The other is in his
pants
And the
riot squad, they're restless
They
need somewhere to
go
As
lady and I look
out tonight from
Desolation
Row
Verse 2
Cinderella, she seems so easy
It
takes one to know one she
smiles
And
puts her hands in her back pocket
Bette Davis style
Then
in comes Romeo, he's moaning
You
belong to me I be
lieve
And
someone says you're in the wrong place my friend
You'd better le
ave
And the
only sound that's left
After the ambulances
go
Is
Cinderella
sweeping up on
Desolation
Row
Verse 3
Now the
moon is almost hidden
The
stars are beginning to
hide
The
fortune telling lady
Has
even taken all her things in
side
All ex
cept for Cain and Abel
And the
Hunchback of Notre-
Dame
Everybody is making love
Or
else expecting
rain
And the
Good Samaritan, he's dressing
He's gettin'
ready for the
show
He's
going to the
carnival tonight on
Desolation
Row
Verse 4
O
phelia, she's 'neath the window
For
her I feel so a
fraid
On her
twenty-second birthday
She al
ready is an old
maid
To
her, death is quite romantic
She
wears an iron
vest
Her
profession's her religion
Her
sin is her lifeless
ness
And
though her eyes are fixed upon
Noah's great rain
bow
She
spends her time
peeking into
Desolation R
ow
Verse 5
Einstein disguised as Robin Hood
With his
memories in a
trunk
Passed this way an hour ago
With his
friend a jealous
monk
Ah he
looked so immaculately frightful
As he
bummed a cigar
ette
Then
went off sniffing drain pipes
And re
citing the alpha
bet
You
would not think to look at him
But he was
famous long a
go
For
playing the electric
violin on
Desolation R
ow
Verse 6
Doctor
Filth, he keeps his world
I
nside of a leather
cup
But
all his sexless patients
They are
trying to blow it up
Now his
nurse, some local loser
She's in
charge of the cyanide
hole
And she
also keeps the cards that read
Have
mercy on his
soul
They all play on the penny whistle
You can hear them
blow
If you
lean your head o
ut far enough from
Desolation
Row
Verse 7
Across the
street they've nailed the curtains
They're gettin'
ready for the
feast
The
Phantom of the Opera
In a
perfect image of a
priest
They are
spoon feeding Casanova
To
get him to feel more as
sured
Then they'll
kill him with self-confidence
After p
oisoning him with word
s
And the
Phantom's shouting to skinny girls
Get
outta here if you don't
know
Casa
nova is just being
punished for going
To Desolation
Row
Verse 8
At mid
night all the agents
And the
superhuman
crew
Come
out and round up everyone
That
knows more than they
do
Then they bring them to the factory
Where the
heart attack ma
chine
Is
strapped across their shoulders
And
then the kero
sene
Is
brought down from the castles
By in
surance men who
go
Check to
see that nobody is es
caping to
Desolation R
ow
Verse 9
Praise
be to Nero's Neptune
The Ti
tanic sails at
dawn
Everybody is shouting
Which side are you
on
And E
zra Pound and T.S. Eliot
Fighting in the captain's
tower
While
calypso singers laugh at them
And
fishermen hold
flowers
Be
tween the windows of the sea
Where
lovely mermaids
flow
And
nobody has to
think too much about
Desolation
Row
Bridge
(*n
o
lyr
ics
-
ha
rmo
ni
ca
sol
o
- o
pti
on
al*
)
Verse 10
Yes I
received your letter yesterday
About
the time the door knob
broke
When you
asked me how I was doing
Was
that some kind of
joke
All these
people that you mention
Yes I
know them, they're quite
lame
I had to
rearrange their faces
And give them
all another na
me
Right now I can't read too good
Don't
send me no more letters,
no
Not unless you
mail them from
Desolation R
ow
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