[00:16.80]They're selling postcards of the hanging
[00:19.47]And they're painting the passports brown
[00:22.23]Yeah the beauty parlor is filled with sailors
[00:25.64]The circus is in town
[00:28.06]And now well here comes the blind commissioner
[00:30.94]They've got him in a trance
[00:33.71]One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
[00:37.24]The other is in his pants
[00:39.45]And the riot squads are restless
[00:42.58]They need somewhere to go
[00:45.20]As Lady and I look out tonight
[00:48.17]From Desolation Row
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[00:52.47]Cinderella she seems so easy
[00:55.32]"Well it takes one to know one" she smiles
[00:58.19]And she puts her hands in her back pockets
[01:01.55]Bette Taylor style
[01:03.79]And now here comes Romeo moaning
[01:06.71]"You Belong to Me I Believe"
[01:09.55]And someone says " You're in the wrong place my friend
[01:13.22]You better leave"
[01:15.34]And the only sound that's left
[01:17.87]After the ambulances go
[01:20.81]Is Cinderella sweeping up
[01:24.00]On Desolation Row
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[01:51.00]
[01:54.03]Now at midnight all the agents
[01:56.89]And the superhuman crew
[01:59.60]Go out and round up everyone
[02:02.77]That knows more than they do
[02:05.33]So come on bring them to the factory
[02:08.21]Where the heart-attack machine
[02:10.80]Is strapped across their shoulders
[02:13.99]And then the kerosene
[02:16.99]Is brought down from the castles
[02:19.50]By insurance men who go
[02:22.21]Check to see that nobody is escaping
[02:25.58]To Desolation Row
[02:28.08]Cause I can't read too good
[02:31.21]Don't send me no letters no
[02:33.72]Not unless you gotta mail them
[02:36.34]From Desolation Row
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