所属专辑:The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert (Live)
歌手: Bob Dylan
时长: 12:05
Desolation Row (Live from London 5/26/66) - Bob Dylan Desolation lan[00:00:00]
They're selling postcards of the hanging[00:00:33]
They're painting the passports brown[00:00:37]
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors[00:00:41]
The circus is in town[00:00:46]
Here comes the blind commissioner[00:00:50]
They've got him in a trance[00:00:53]
One hand is tied to the tight rope walker[00:00:57]
The other is in his pants[00:01:02]
And the riot squad they're restless[00:01:05]
They need somewhere to go[00:01:10]
As lady and I look out tonight[00:01:14]
From desolation row[00:01:18]
Cinderella she seems so easy[00:01:28]
It takes one to know one she smiles[00:01:32]
And puts her hands in her back pockets[00:01:36]
Bette davis style[00:01:41]
And in comes romeo he's moaning[00:01:44]
You belong to me I believe[00:01:48]
And someone says you're in the wrong place my friend[00:01:53]
You'd better leave[00:01:57]
And the only sound that's left[00:02:00]
After the ambulances go[00:02:05]
Is cinderella sweeping up[00:02:08]
On desolation row[00:02:12]
Now the moon is almost hidden[00:02:23]
The stars are beginning to hide[00:02:31]
The fortune telling lady[00:02:35]
Has even taken all her things inside[00:02:39]
All except for cain and abel[00:02:43]
And the hunchback of notre dame[00:02:47]
Everybody is making love[00:02:51]
Or else expecting rain[00:02:55]
And the good samaritan he's dressing[00:02:59]
He's getting ready for the show[00:03:03]
He's going to the carnival tonight[00:03:07]
On desolation row[00:03:11]
Ophelia she's 'neath the window[00:03:18]
For her I feel so afraid[00:03:22]
On her twenty second birthday[00:03:25]
She already is an old maid[00:03:29]
To her death is quite romantic[00:03:33]
She wears an iron vest[00:03:38]
Her profession's her religion[00:03:41]
Her sin is her lifelessness[00:03:45]
And though her eyes are fixed upon[00:03:50]
Noah's great rainbow[00:03:54]
She spends her time peeking[00:03:58]
Into desolation row[00:04:01]
Einstein disguised as robin hood[00:04:12]
With his memories in a trunk[00:04:16]
Passed this way an hour ago[00:04:21]
With his friend a jealous monk[00:04:24]
Now he looked so immaculately frightful[00:04:28]
As he bummed a cigarette[00:04:32]
Then he went off sniffing drainpipes[00:04:36]
And reciting the alphabet[00:04:40]
You would not think to look at him[00:04:44]
But he was famous long ago[00:04:48]
For playing the electric violin[00:04:52]
On desolation row[00:04:56]
Dr filth he keeps his world[00:05:06]
Inside of a leather cup[00:05:11]
But all his sexless patients[00:05:15]
They are trying to blow it up[00:05:18]
Now his nurse some local loser[00:05:22]
She's in charge of the cyanide hole[00:05:26]
And she also keeps the cards that read[00:05:30]
Have mercy on his soul[00:05:34]
They all play on the penny whistle[00:05:39]
You can hear them blow[00:05:42]
If you lean your head out far enough[00:05:46]
From desolation row[00:05:50]
Across the street they've nailed the curtains[00:06:01]
They're getting ready for the feast[00:06:04]
The phantom of the opera[00:06:08]
In a perfect image of a priest[00:06:12]
They are spoon feeding casanova[00:06:16]
To get him to feel more assured[00:06:20]
Then they'll kill him with self confidence[00:06:24]
After poisoning him with words[00:06:28]
And the phantom's shouting to skinny girls[00:06:32]
Get outta here if you don't know[00:06:36]
Casanova is just being punished for going[00:06:40]
To desolation row[00:06:44]
At midnight all the agents[00:06:54]
And the superhuman crew[00:06:58]
Come out and round up everyone[00:07:07]
That knows more than they do[00:07:10]
Then they bring them to the factory[00:07:15]
Where the heart attack machine[00:07:18]
Is strapped across their shoulders[00:07:23]
And then the kerosene[00:07:27]
Is brought down from the castles[00:07:31]
By insurance men who go[00:07:34]
Check to see that nobody is escaping[00:07:38]
To desolation row[00:07:42]
Praise be to nero's neptune[00:07:51]
The titanic sails at dawn[00:07:54]
Everybody's shouting[00:07:59]
Which side are you on[00:08:03]
And ezra pound and t s eliot[00:08:06]
Fighting in the captain's tower[00:08:11]
While calypso singers laugh at them[00:08:15]
And fishermen hold flowers[00:08:18]
Between the windows of the sea[00:08:23]
Where lovely mermaids flow[00:08:26]
And nobody has to think too much[00:08:31]
About desolation row[00:08:35]
Yes I received your letter yesterday[00:09:29]
About the time the door knob broke[00:09:38]
When you asked me how I was doing[00:09:41]
Or was that some kind of joke[00:09:45]
All these people that you mention[00:09:49]
Yes I know them they're quite lame[00:09:53]
I had to rearrange their faces[00:09:57]
And give them all another name[00:10:01]
Right now I can't read too good[00:10:05]
Don't send me no more letters no[00:10:09]
Not unless you mail them[00:10:13]
From desolation row[00:10:16]