Tonart: E major
Verse 1
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They're selling postcards
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of the hanging
They're painting the passports brown
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The beauty parlor is filled
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with sailors
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The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
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They've got him in a trance
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One hand is tied to the tight- rope walker
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The other is in his pants
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And the riot squad they're restless
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They need somewhere to go
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As Lady and I look out tonight
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From Desolation Row
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Verse 2
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Now Cinderella, she seems so easy
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"It takes one to know one,
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" she smiles
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And puts her hands in
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her back pockets
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Bette Davis style
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And in walks Romeo, he's moaning
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"You belong to me I believe"
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And someone says,
"You're in the wrong place
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My friend you Better leave"
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And the only sound you can hear
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After the ambulances go
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Is Cinderella sweeping up on
Desolation Row
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Verse 3
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Now Ophelia, she's 'neath the window
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For her I feel so afraid
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On her twenty- second birthday
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She already is an old maid
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To her, death is quite romantic
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She wears an iron vest
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Her profession's her religion
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Her sin is her lifelessness
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And though her gaze is gazed
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Upon Noah's great rainbow
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She spend her time peeking
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in from
Desolation Row
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Verse 4
Now, Einstein disguised
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as Robin Hood with
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His memories in a trunk
Passed this way an hour ago
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with his friend
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A jealous monk
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He looked so immaculately frightful as
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He bummed a cigarette
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As he went off sniffing drainpipes
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And re citing the alphabet
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Oh, you would not think to look at
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Him but he was famous long ago
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For playing the electric violin
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On Desolation Row
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Verse 5
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Dr filth
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He keeps his world inside
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of a leather cup
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But all his sexless patients they're
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Trying to blow it up now his nurse
Some local loser she's
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in charge
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Of the cyanide hole
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And she also keeps the cards that
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Read "Have mercy on his soul"
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They all play on the penny whistles,
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yes
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You can hear then blow
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If you lean your head out far
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enough from
Interlude 1
Desolation Row
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Verse 6
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Across the street they've
nailed the curtains
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They're getting ready for the feast
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The Phantom of the Opera
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In a perfect image of a priest
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Now they're spoon feeding Casanova
To get him to feel more assured
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Then they'll kill him with
self- confidence
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After poisoning him with words
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And the Phantom's shouting
to skinny girls
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"Get outta here if you don't know"
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Casanova is just being punished
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for going to
Desolation Row
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Verse 7
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Now, at midnight all the agents
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And the superhuman crew
They'll round up everyone
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That knows more than they do
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They take them to the factory
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Where the heart- attack machine
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Is strapped across their shoulders
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And then the kerosene
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Is brought down from the castles
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By insurance men who go
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Make sure nobody is escaping
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To Desolation Row
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Verse 8
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Bob praise be to Nero's Neptune
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The Titanic sails at dawn
Everybody's shouting
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"Which side are you on?"
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And Ezra Pound and T s eliot
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They're fighting in the
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captain's tower
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While calypso singers laugh at them,
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yes
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And fishermen hold flowers
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Between the windows of the sea
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Where lovely mermaids flow
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And no one has to think too
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much about
Interlude 2
Desolation Row
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Verse 9
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Yes, I received your letter yesterday
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About the time the door knob broke
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When you asked how I was doing
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Was that some kind of joke?
All these people that you mention
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Yes, I know them, they're quite lame
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I had to rearrange their faces
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And give them all another name
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Right now I can't read so good
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Don't send me no more letters, no
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Not unless you mail them from
Outro 1
desolation Row
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