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Sun Aug-15-04 01:35 PM
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They're selling postcards of the hanging, |
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Edited on Sun Aug-15-04 01:37 PM by bobthedrummer
they're painting the passports brown. The beauty parlor's full of sailors, the circus is in town.
Here comes the blind commissoner, they've got him in a trance one hand's tied to the tightrope walker, the other is in his pants.
And the riot squad they're restless, they need somewhere to go As lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row...
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Sun Aug-15-04 01:41 PM
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1. Cinderella she seems so easy |
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it takes one to know one she smiles then puts her hands in her back pocket Bette Davis style. Then in comes Romeo he's moaning you belong to me I believe then someone says you're in the wrong place my friend you'd better leave. And the only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row...
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Sun Aug-15-04 01:46 PM
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2. Now the moon is almost hidden |
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the stars are beginning to hide the fortune telling lady has taken all her things inside all except for Cain and Abel and the hunchback of Notre Dame. Everybody is making love or else expecting rain. And the good samaritan he's dressing he's getting ready for the show he's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.
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Sun Aug-15-04 01:51 PM
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3. Now Ophelia she's 'neath the window |
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for her I feel so afraid. On her twenty second birthday she already is an old maid. To her death is quite romantic she wears an iron vest. Her profession's her religion her sin is her lifelessness. And though her eyes are fixed upon Noah's great rainbow she spends her time peeking into Desolation Row...
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Sun Aug-15-04 01:53 PM
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4. Einstein disguised as Robin Hood |
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Edited on Sun Aug-15-04 02:00 PM by capriccio
With his memories in a trunk Passed this way an hour ago With his friend, a jealous monk He looked so immaculately frightful As he bummed a cigarette Then he went off sniffing drainpipes And reciting the alphabet Now you would not think to look at him But he was famous long ago For playing the electric violin On Desolation Row
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Sun Aug-15-04 02:03 PM
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7. You got it, capriccio! Here's the 6th verse- |
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Doctor Filth he keeps his word inside of a leather cup but all his sexless patients they're trying to blow it up. Now his nurse some local loser she's in charge of the cyanide hole and she also keeps the cards that read "Have mercy on his soul" They all play on penny whistles you can hear them blow if you lean your head out far enough from Desolation Row...
(words and music by Bob Dylan copyright 1965 M. Whitmark&Sons)
4 more verses left...
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Sun Aug-15-04 01:56 PM
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5. Einstein disguised as Robin Hood |
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with his memories in a trunk passed this way an hour ago with his friend a jealous monk. He looked so immaculately frightful as he bummed a cigarette then he went off sniffing drain pipes and reciting the alphabet. Now you would not think to look at him but he was famous long ago for playing the electric violin on Desolation Row...
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Sun Aug-15-04 02:02 PM
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6. didn't mean to get in your way... |
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Sun Aug-15-04 02:04 PM
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9. I got into the words, man! |
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Sun Aug-15-04 02:03 PM
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8. Dr. Filth, he keeps his world |
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Inside of a leather cup But all his sexless patients They're trying to blow it up Now his nurse, some local loser She's in charge of the cyanide hole And she also keeps the cards that read "Have Mercy on His Soul" They all play on penny whistles You can hear them blow If you lean your head out far enough From Desolation Row
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Sun Aug-15-04 02:04 PM
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Across the street they've nailed the curtains They're getting ready for the feast The Phantom of the Opera A perfect image of a priest They're spoonfeeding Casanova To get him to feel more assured Then they'll kill him with self-confidence After poisoning him with words
And the Phantom's shouting to skinny girls "Get Outa Here If You Don't Know Casanova is just being punished for going To Desolation Row"
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Sun Aug-15-04 02:30 PM
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11. Now at midnight all the agents |
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Edited on Sun Aug-15-04 02:31 PM by bobthedrummer
and the super human crew come out and round up everyone that knows more than they do. Then they bring them to the factory where the heart attack machine is strapped across their shoulders and then the kerosene is brought down from the castles by insurance men who go check to see that nobody is escaping to Desolation Row...
(your turn. we're rolling)
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Sun Aug-15-04 03:39 PM
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12. Praise be to Nero's Neptune |
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The Titanic sails at dawn and everybody's shouting which side are you on? And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot fighting in the captain's tower while calypso singers laugh at them and fishermen hold flowers between the windows of the sea where lovely mermaids flow and nobody has to think too much about Desolation Row...
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Tue Aug-17-04 11:24 AM
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13. Yes, I received your posting yesterday |
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(About the time the voting machine broke) When you asked how I was doing Was that some kind of joke? All these Neocons that you mention Yes, I know them, they're quite lame I had to rearrange their faces And give them all another name Right now I can't read too good Don't send me no more emails no Not unless you mail them From Desolation Row
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