[00:47.70]They're selling postcards of the hanging
[00:51.70]They're painting the passports brown
[00:56.00]The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
[00:59.10]The circus is in town
[01:03.10]Here comes the blind commissioner
[01:07.40]They've got him in a trance
[01:11.10]One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
[01:14.60]The other is in his pants
[01:18.40]And the riot squad they're restless
[01:22.10]They need somewhere to go
[01:25.50]As Lady and I look out tonight
[01:29.90]From Desolation Row
[01:33.50]Cinderella, she seems so easy
[01:39.40]"It takes one to know one," she smiles
[01:42.00]Puts her hands in her back pockets
[01:46.70]Bette Davis style
[01:50.20]In comes Romeo, he's moaning
[01:54.50]"You Belong to Me I Believe"
[01:57.04]Someone turns and says," You're in the wrong room, my friend
[02:02.91]You better hurry up and leave"
[02:05.13]And the only sound that's left
[02:09.48]After the ambulances go
[02:13.63]Is Cinderella sweeping up
[02:17.66]On Desolation Row
[02:20.94]Now the moon is almost hidden
[02:29.72]The stars are beginning to hide
[02:33.60]The fortunetelling lady
[02:37.60]Has even taken all her things inside
[02:41.12]All except for Cain and Abel
[02:45.60]And the hunchback of Notre Dame
[02:48.75]Everybody is either making love
[02:53.70]Or else expecting rain
[02:56.63]And the Good Samaritan, he's dressing
[02:59.40]He's getting ready for the show
[03:03.63]He's going to the carnival tonight
[03:08.06]On Desolation Row
[03:10.79]Now Ophelia, she's 'neath the window
[03:17.32]For her I feel so afraid
[03:20.31]On her twenty-second birthday
[03:24.68]She already is an old maid
[03:28.39]To her, death is quite romantic
[03:32.27]She wears an iron vest
[03:36.84]Her profession's her religion
[03:39.56]Her sin is her lifelessness
[03:43.82]And though her eyes are fixed upon
[03:48.60]Noah's great rainbow
[03:51.31]She spends her time peeking
[03:55.42]Into Desolation Row
[03:57.37]Across the street they've nailed the curtains
[04:08.41]They're getting ready for the feast
[04:11.68]The Phantom of the Opera
[04:16.56]In a perfect image of a priest
[04:19.42]They're spoonfeeding Casanova
[04:23.87]Get him to feel more assured
[04:27.84]Then they'll kill him with self-confidence
[04:30.36]After poisoning him with words
[04:35.60]And the Phantom's shouting to skinny girls
[04:38.97]"Get Outta Here If You Don't Know
[04:42.83]Casanova is just being punished for going
[04:46.46]To Desolation Row"
[04:49.83]Now at midnight all the agents
[05:42.40]And the superhuman crew
[05:46.02]Come out and round up everyone
[05:50.23]That knows more than they do
[05:53.97]Then they bring them to the factory
[05:57.48]Where the heart-attack machine
[06:01.14]Is strapped across their shoulders
[06:05.38]And then the kerosene
[06:09.68]Is brought down from the castles
[06:13.19]By insurance men who go
[06:16.67]Check to see that nobody is escaping
[06:20.85]Desolation Row
[06:24.52]Yes, I received your letter yesterday
[06:29.73]（About the time the door knob broke）
[06:33.46]When you asked how I was doing
[06:37.28]Was that some kind of joke?
[06:41.16]All these people that you mention
[06:44.05]Yes, I know them, they're quite lame
[06:48.32]I had to rearrange their faces
[06:52.19]And give them all another name
[06:56.63]Right now I can't read too good
[07:00.55]Don't send me no more letters no
[07:03.33]Not unless you mail them
[07:08.60]From Desolation Row