[00:05.19]They're selling postcards of the hanging
[00:10.57]They're painting the passports brown
[00:15.56]The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
[00:21.13]The circus is in town
[00:26.00]Here comes the blind commissioner
[00:32.95]They've got him in a trance
[00:38.00]One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
[00:40.64]
[00:43.51]The other is in his pants
[00:50.01]And the riot squad they're restless
[00:55.33]They need somewhere to go
[01:00.32]As Lady and I look out tonight
[01:04.88]From Desolation Row
[01:17.26]Cinderella, she seems so easy
[01:22.64]"It takes one to know one," she smiles
[01:27.20]And puts her hands in her back pockets
[01:33.51]Bette Davis style
[01:37.76]And in comes Romeo, he's moaning
[01:41.76]"You Belong to Me I Believe"
[01:47.72]And someone says," You're in the wrong place, my friend
[01:52.90]You better leave"
[01:57.40]And the only sound that's left
[02:02.53]After the ambulances go
[02:07.59]Is Cinderella sweeping up
[02:10.15]
[02:13.02]On Desolation Row
[02:24.21]Now the moon is almost hidden
[02:29.33]The stars are beginning to hide
[02:34.71]The fortunetelling lady
[02:39.02]Has even taken all her things inside
[02:44.21]All except for Cain and Abel
[02:49.14]And the hunchback of Notre Dame
[02:54.40]Everybody is making love
[02:59.08]Or else expecting rain
[03:04.08]And the Good Samaritan, he's dressing
[03:08.57]He's getting ready for the show
[03:14.13]He's going to the carnival tonight
[03:20.12]On Desolation Row
[03:31.06]Now Ophelia, she's 'neath the window
[03:36.18]For her I feel so afraid
[03:41.12]On her twenty-second birthday
[03:45.74]She already is an old maid
[03:53.01]To her, death is quite romantic
[03:58.45]She wears an iron vest
[04:03.45]Her profession's her religion
[04:08.26]Her sin is her lifelessness
[04:13.07]And though her eyes are fixed upon
[04:18.26]Noah's great rainbow
[04:23.13]She spends her time peeking
[04:26.76]Into Desolation Row
[04:40.39]Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood
[04:44.82]With his memories in a trunk
[04:50.20]Passed this way an hour ago
[04:54.64]With his friend, a jealous monk
[05:02.14]He looked so immaculately frightful
[05:07.14]As he bummed a cigarette
[05:11.89]Then he went off sniffing drainpipes
[05:16.39]And reciting the alphabet
[05:21.51]Now you would not think to look at him
[05:26.26]But he was famous long ago
[05:31.51]For playing the electric violin
[05:35.95]On Desolation Row
[05:50.63]Dr. Filth, he keeps his world
[05:55.76]Inside of a leather cup
[06:00.32]But all his sexless patients
[06:05.32]They're trying to blow it up
[06:09.95]Now his nurse, some local loser
[06:14.95]She's in charge of the cyanide hose
[06:20.01]And she also keeps the cards that read
[06:24.57]"Have Mercy on His Soul"
[06:29.57]They all play on penny whistles
[06:34.76]You can hear them blow
[06:39.39]If you lean your head out far enough
[06:43.88]From Desolation Row
[06:58.64]Across the street they've nailed the curtains
[07:03.00]They're getting ready for the feast
[07:08.32]The Phantom of the Opera
[07:12.57]A perfect image of a priest
[07:19.07]They're spoonfeeding Casanova
[07:24.07]To get him to feel more assured
[07:28.57]Then they'll kill him with self-confidence
[07:33.20]After poisoning him with words
[07:40.63]And the Phantom's shouting to skinny girls
[07:45.57]"Get Outa Here If You Don't Know
[07:50.45]Casanova is just being punished for going
[07:55.88]To Desolation Row"
[08:11.70]Now at midnight all the agents
[08:16.50]And the superhuman crew
[08:21.69]Come out and round up everyone
[08:26.01]That knows more than they do
[08:35.44]Then they bring them to the factory
[08:40.38]Where the heart-attack machine
[08:45.19]Is strapped across their shoulders
[08:49.63]And then the kerosene
[08:52.44]Is brought down from the castles
[08:59.01]By insurance men who go
[09:04.00]Check to see that nobody is escaping
[09:08.76]To Desolation Row
[09:25.37]Praise be to Nero's Neptune
[09:30.32]The Titanic sails at dawn
[09:35.88]And everybody's shouting
[09:40.31]"Which Side Are You On?"
[09:46.57]And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
[09:51.75]Fighting in the captain's tower
[09:56.07]While calypso singers laugh at them
[10:00.82]And fishermen hold flowers
[10:06.01]Between the windows of the sea
[10:10.69]Where lovely mermaids flow
[10:15.44]And nobody has to think too much
[10:19.82]About Desolation Row
[10:34.07]Yes, I received your letter yesterday
[10:38.56]（About the time the door knob broke）
[10:43.19]When you asked how I was doing
[10:48.38]Was that some kind of joke?
[10:54.38]All these people that you mention
[11:00.94]Yes, I know them, they're quite lame
[11:05.81]I had to rearrange their faces
[11:10.50]And give them all another name
[11:18.01]Right now I can't read too good
[11:22.38]Don't send me no more letters no
[11:25.63]Not unless you mail them
[11:31.13]From Desolation Row