[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具V2.0_20200810] [offset:0] [00:36.72]They're selling postcards of the hanging they're painting the passports brown [00:45.66]The beauty parlor is filled with sailors the circus is in town [00:54.09]Here comes the blind commissioner they've got him in a trance [01:01.56]One hand is tied to the tight rope walker the other is in his pants [01:09.90]And the riot squad they're restless they need somewhere to go [01:18.30]As lady and I look out tonight from desolation row [01:32.73]Cinderella she seems so easy it takes one to know one she smiles [01:41.13]And puts her hands in her back pockets bette davis style [01:47.55]And in comes romeo he's moaning [01:53.10]You belong to me I believe [01:57.48]And someone says you're in the wrong place my friend you'd better leave [02:05.43]And the only sound that's left after the ambulances go [02:13.95]Is cinderella sweeping up on desolation row [02:23.85]Now the moon is almost hidden the stars are beginning to hide [02:32.67]The fortune telling lady has even taken all her things inside [02:40.47]All except for cain and abel and the hunchback of notre dame [02:50.34]Everybody is making love or else expecting rain [02:56.76]And the good samaritan he's dressing he's getting ready for the show [03:05.13]He's going to the carnival tonight on desolation row [03:17.46]Ophelia she's 'neath the window for her I feel so afraid [03:25.14]On her twenty second birthday she already is an old maid [03:33.15]To her death is quite romantic she wears an iron vest [03:41.49]Her profession's her religion her sin is her lifelessness [03:49.71]And though her eyes are fixed upon noah's great rainbow [03:57.87]She spends her time peeking into desolation row [04:10.35]Einstein disguised as robin hood with his memories in a trunk [04:18.99]Passed this way an hour ago with his friend a jealous monk [04:26.04]Now he looked so immaculately frightful as he bummed a cigarette [04:34.38]And he when off sniffing drainpipes and reciting the alphabet [04:42.57]You would not think to look at him but he was famous long ago [04:51.00]For playing the electric violin on desolation row [05:02.64]Dr filth he keeps his world inside of a leather cup [05:11.04]But all his sexless patients they're trying to blow it up [05:18.57]Now his nurse some local loser she's in charge of the cyanide hole [05:27.36]And she also keeps the cards that read have mercy on his soul [05:35.61]They all play on the penny whistles you can hear them blow [05:43.17]If you lean your head out far enough from desolation row [05:53.58]Across the street they've nailed the curtains they're getting ready for the feast [06:02.10]The phantom of the opera in a perfect image of a priest [06:09.63]They are spoon feeding casanova to get him to feel more assured [06:17.64]Then they'll kill him with self confidence after poisoning him with words [06:25.95]And the phantom's shouting to skinny girls get outta here if you don't know [06:33.90]Casanova is just being punished for going to desolation row [06:46.41]At midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew [06:54.75]Come out and round up everyone that knows more than they do [07:02.19]Then they bring them to the factory where the heart attack machine [07:10.86]Is strapped across their shoulders and then the kerosene [07:18.69]Is brought down from the castles by insurance men who go [07:26.37]Check to see that nobody is escaping to desolation row [07:37.50]Praise be to nero's neptune the titanic sails at dawn [07:45.51]Everybody's shouting which side are you on [07:52.62]And ezra pound and t s eliot fighting in the captain's tower [08:00.93]While calypso singers laugh at them and fishermen hold flowers [08:09.42]Between the windows of the sea where lovely mermaids flow [08:17.46]And nobody has to think too much about desolation row [09:14.19]Yes I received your letter yesterday about the time the doorknob broke [09:24.93]When you asked me how I was doing was that some kind of joke [09:32.67]All these people that you mention yes I know them they're quite lame [09:40.62]I had to rearrange their faces and give them all another name [09:48.66]Right now I can't read too good don't send me no more letters no [09:57.45]Not unless you mail them from desolation row