Desolation Row-Bob Dylan

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[00:00.00]Desolation Row - Bob Dylan
[00:04.56]Written by：Bob Dylan
[00:09.13]They're selling postcards of the hanging
[00:14.12]They're painting the passports brown
[00:18.71]The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
[00:23.65]The circus is in town
[00:28.06]Here comes the blind commissioner
[00:32.34]They've got him in a trance
[00:36.54]One hand is tied to the tight rope walker
[00:41.94]The other is in his pants
[00:45.62]And the riot squad they're restless
[00:50.33]They need somewhere to go
[00:54.79]As lady and I look out tonight
[00:59.09]From desolation row
[01:08.02]Cinderella she seems so easy
[01:12.80]It takes one to know one she smiles
[01:17.22]And puts her hands in her back pockets
[01:22.65]Bette Davis style
[01:26.34]And in comes Romeo he's moaning
[01:30.50]You belong to me I believe
[01:35.05]And someone says you're in the wrong place my friend
[01:40.21]You better leave
[01:43.81]And the only sound that's left
[01:49.00]After the ambulances go
[01:53.24]Is Cinderella sweeping up
[01:57.41]On desolation row
[02:06.24]Now the moon is almost hidden
[02:11.09]The stars are beginning to hide
[02:15.51]The fortune telling lady
[02:19.73]Has even taken all her things inside
[02:24.19]All except for Cain and Abel
[02:28.37]And the hunchback of Notre Dame
[02:33.48]Everybody is making love
[02:37.26]Or else expecting rain
[02:41.94]And the good Samaritan he's dressing
[02:46.08]He's getting ready for the show
[02:50.70]He's going to the carnival tonight
[02:55.14]On desolation row
[03:03.98]Now Ophelia she's 'neath the window
[03:08.59]For her I feel so afraid
[03:12.76]On her twenty second birthday
[03:17.03]She already is an old maid
[03:21.61]To her death is quite romantic
[03:26.14]She wears an iron vest
[03:30.30]Her profession's her religion
[03:34.80]Her sin is her lifelessness
[03:39.24]And though her eyes are fixed upon
[03:44.04]Noah's great rainbow
[03:48.41]She spends her time peeking
[03:51.68]Into desolation row
[04:01.62]Einstein disguised as Robin Hood
[04:05.65]With his memories in a trunk
[04:10.52]Passed this way an hour ago
[04:14.32]With his friend a jealous monk
[04:18.78]He looked so immaculately frightful
[04:23.17]As he bummed a cigarette
[04:27.32]Then he went off sniffing drainpipes
[04:31.60]And reciting the alphabet
[04:36.54]You would not think to look at him
[04:40.34]But he was famous long ago
[04:45.20]For playing the electric violin
[04:49.15]On desolation row
[04:58.08]Dr. Filth he keeps his world
[05:02.83]Inside of a leather cup
[05:07.21]But all his sexless patients
[05:11.08]They're trying to blow it up
[05:15.83]Now his nurse some local loser
[05:20.26]She's in charge of the cyanide hole
[05:24.66]And she also keeps the cards that read
[05:28.90]Have mercy on his soul
[05:33.97]They all play on penny whistles
[05:38.08]You can hear them blow
[05:42.31]If you lean your head out far enough
[05:46.64]From desolation row
[05:55.15]Across the street they've nailed the curtains
[05:59.53]They're getting ready for the feast
[06:04.21]The phantom of the opera
[06:08.18]In a perfect image of a priest
[06:12.68]They're spoon feeding Casanova
[06:16.87]To get him to feel more assured
[06:21.39]Then they'll kill him with self confidence
[06:25.60]After poisoning him with words
[06:31.20]And the phantom's shouting to skinny girls
[06:36.01]Get outa here if you don't know
[06:40.06]Casanova is just being punished for going
[06:44.68]To desolation row
[06:53.21]Now at midnight all the agents
[06:57.55]And the superhuman crew
[07:02.05]Come out and round up everyone
[07:06.27]That knows more than they do
[07:10.56]Then they bring them to the factory
[07:14.92]Where the heart attack machine
[07:19.24]Is strapped across their shoulders
[07:23.39]And then the kerosene
[07:27.98]Is brought down from the castles
[07:32.09]By insurance men who go
[07:36.56]Check to see that nobody is escaping
[07:40.81]To desolation row
[07:47.69]Praise be to Nero's Neptune
[07:51.83]The Titanic sails at dawn
[07:56.36]And everybody's shouting
[08:00.96]Which side are you on
[08:04.91]And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
[08:09.68]Fighting in the captain's tower
[08:13.70]While calypso singers laugh at them
[08:17.80]And fishermen hold flowers
[08:22.69]Between the windows of the sea
[08:26.68]Where lovely mermaids flow
[08:31.32]And nobody has to think too much
[08:35.29]About desolation row
[09:35.10]Yes I received your letter yesterday
[09:39.45]About the time the doorknob broke
[09:43.58]When you asked me how I was doing
[09:48.37]Or was that some kind of joke
[09:52.32]All these people that you mention
[09:56.57]Yes I know them they're quite lame
[10:00.73]I had to rearrange their faces
[10:05.08]And give them all another name
[10:10.08]Right now I can't read too good
[10:13.84]Don't send me no more letters no
[10:18.61]Not unless you mail them
[10:21.89]From desolation row