[00:16.89] They're selling postcards of the hanging
[00:19.72] Well, they're painting the passports brown
[00:22.34] Yeah, the beauty parlor's filled with sailors
[00:25.68] The circus is in town
[00:28.05] Oh no, but here comes the blind commissioner
[00:31.03] Well, they've got him in a trance
[00:34.03] One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
[00:37.18] The other's in his pants
[00:39.55] And the riot squad, they're restless
[00:42.55] They need somewhere to go
[00:45.87] As Lady and I look out tonight from
[00:49.12] Desolation Row
[00:52.81] Oh, Cinderella, she seems so easy
[00:55.51] Well, it takes one to know one, she smiles
[00:58.54] And she puts her hands in her back pockets
[01:01.26] Bette Davis style
[01:03.92] Now, but here comes Romeo, moaning
[01:07.23] You belong to me, I believe
[01:09.93] And someone says
[01:11.22] You're in the wrong place, my friend
[01:12.97] You better leave
[01:15.23] And then the only sound that's left
[01:18.33] After the ambulances go
[01:21.23] Is Cinderella sweeping up on
[01:24.78] Desolation Row
[01:54.85] Yeah, at midnight all the agents
[01:56.89] And superhuman crew
[01:59.84] Go out and round up everyone
[02:02.49] That knows more than they do
[02:05.97] They're gonna bring them to the factory
[02:08.29] Where the heart-attack machine
[02:11.28] Is strapped across their shoulders
[02:13.80] And then the kerosene
[02:17.23] Is brought down from the castles
[02:19.67] By insurance men who go
[02:22.96] Check to see that no one is escaping to
[02:26.36] Desolation Row
[02:28.51] 'Cause right now
[02:29.54] I can't read too good
[02:31.42] Don't send me no letters, no
[02:34.27] Not unless you gotta mail them from
[02:37.51] Desolation Row
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