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 comes the blind commissioner, they've got him in a
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker, the other is in his
And the riot squad they're restless, they somewhere to go
As Lady and I look out tonight, from Row

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Praise be to Nero's Neptune, the Titanic at dawn
shouting, "Which side are you on?!"
And Pound and T.S. Eliot fighting in the captain's tower
While calypso laugh at them and fishermen hold flowers
Between the windows of the sea where mermaids flow
And nobody has to think too about Desolation Row

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