Luyện nghe bài hát Desolation Row

They're selling postcards of the hanging, they're the passports brown
The beauty is filled with sailors, the circus is in town
Here the blind commissioner, they've got him in a trance
One is tied to the tight-rope walker, the other is in his pants
And the riot squad they're restless, need somewhere to go
As Lady and I look out tonight, from Row

Cinderella, she so easy, "It takes one to know one," she smiles
And puts her hands in her back pockets Bette style
And in comes Romeo, he's moaning. "You to Me I Believe"
And someone says, "You're in the place, my friend, you'd better leave"
And the only that's left after the ambulances go
Is Cinderella up on Desolation Row

Now the moon is hidden, the stars are beginning to hide
The fortune lady has even taken all her things inside
All except for Cain and Abel and the hunchback of Notre

Everybody is making or else expecting rain
And the Good Samaritan, he's dressing, getting ready for the show
He's going to the carnival on Desolation Row

Ophelia, she's 'neath the for her I feel so afraid
On her twenty-second birthday she is an old maid
To her, death is quite romantic she wears an vest
Her her religion, her sin is her lifelessness
And though her are fixed upon Noah's great rainbow
She her time peeking into Desolation Row

Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood his memories in a trunk
Passed this way an hour ago with his friend, a monk
Now he looked so immaculately frightful as he bummed a
And he off sniffing drainpipes and reciting the alphabet
You would not to look at him, but he was famous long ago
For playing the violin on Desolation Row

Dr. Filth, he keeps his world of a leather cup
But all his patients, they're trying to blow it up
Now his nurse, some local loser, in charge of the cyanide hole
And she also the cards that read, "Have Mercy on His Soul"
They all play on the penny whistles, you can hear them
If you your head out far enough from Desolation Row

Across the street they've the curtains, they're getting ready for the feast
The Phantom of the Opera in a perfect image of a
are spoon feeding Casanova to get him to feel more assured
Then they'll him with self-confidence after poisoning him with words
And the Phantom's shouting to girls, "Get outta here if you don't know"
Casanova is just being for going to Desolation Row"

At midnight all the and the superhuman crew
out and round up everyone that knows more than they do
Then they bring them to the factory where the machine
Is strapped across their shoulders and then the
Is brought down the castles by insurance men who go
Check to see nobody is escaping to Desolation Row

be to Nero's Neptune, the Titanic sails at dawn
Everybody's shouting, "Which are you on?!"
And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot fighting in the captain's
While calypso singers at them and fishermen hold flowers
Between the windows of the sea where lovely mermaids
And nobody has to think too much about Row

Yes, I received your letter yesterday, the time the doorknob broke
you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke
All these that you mention, yes, I know them, they're quite lame
I had to rearrange their faces and give them all another
Right now, I can't read too good, don't send me no more no
Not unless you mail them from Row