Тональность: E major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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They're selling postcard
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s at the hanging
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They're painting the
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The beauty parlor's filled with sailors,
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the circus is in town.
And in walks the blind commissioner,
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they've got him in a trance.
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One hand is tied to the tightrope walker,
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the other is in his pants.
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And they're asked why
they're restless
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They need somewhere to go
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This lady and I look out tonight
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On Desolation Road
Cinderella, she seems so easy
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Takes one to know one, she smiles
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Puts her hands in her back pockets
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Betty Davis style
And in walks Romeo, he's moaning
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You belong to me, I believe
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Someone says you're in the wrong place,
You'd better leave
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The only sound you can hear
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after the ambulances go
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Cinderella sweeping up
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on Desolation Road
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No, I feel ya, she's neat the window
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For her, feel so afraid
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On her 22nd birthday
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She already is an old maid
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To her, death is quite romantic
She wears an iron vest
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Her profession's her religion
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Her sin is her lifelessness
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Though her gaze is fixed
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upon Noah's great rainbow
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Peeping in on Desolation and hope
Now this time the moon
Is almost hidden
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The stars are beginning to hide
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The fortune -telling lady
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Has already taken all her things inside
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Well, except for Cain and Abel
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And the hunchback of Notre
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Dame
Everybody's either making love
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Or else expecting rain
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And the good Samaritan, he's dressing,
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he's getting ready for the show
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He's going down to the carnival tonight,
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on Desolation Road
Now Einstein discusses Robin Hood
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With his memories in a trunk
Passed this way an hour ago
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With his friend a jealous monkey
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Oh, he looked so immaculately frightful,
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as he bummed a cigarette.
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And you went on sniffing grain pipes,
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and reciting the alphabet.
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Well, you wouldn't think to look at him,
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but he was famous long ago.
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We're playing electric violin
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on a desolation row
Dr. Phil, he keeps his world
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inside of a leather cup
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And all his sexless patients,
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they're all trying to blow it up.
His nurse, some local loser,
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she's in charge of the cyanide hole.
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She also keeps the cards that read
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have mercy on his soul
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Yes, they all play on the penny whistle
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Yes, you can hear them blow
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If you lean your head out
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Bar it up on the distillation room
across the street
they've nailed the curtains
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they're getting ready for the
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feast fandom of the opera
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in the perfect image of a priest
And they're spoon -feeding Casanova
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To get him to feel more assured
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Then they'll kill him with
self -confidence
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After poisoning him with words
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And the fandom's shouting,
two skinny girls
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Get out of here, you don't know
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Casanova's just being punished
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We're going to Decimation Road
Now at midnight all the agents
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And the superhuman crew
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They go and round up everyone
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who knows more than they do
Then they take them to the factory
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where the heart attack machine
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Is strapped across their shoulders
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Then the kerosene is brought
down from the castles
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by insurance men who go to
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make sure nobody's escaping
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Oh praise be to Nero's Neptune,
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the Titanic sails at dawn
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And everybody's shouting,
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which side are you on?
Ezra Pound and T .S. Elliott,
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the captain's tower,
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while Calypso singers laugh at them,
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and fishermen throw flowers
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between the windows of the sea,
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where lonely mermaids float.
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An d no one has to think too much
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about the desolation road.
Yes, I received your letter yesterday
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about the time the door not broke
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When you asked how I was doing,
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was that some kind of joke?
All these people that you mentioned,
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yes, I know that they're quite lame.
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I have to rearrange their faces
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and give them all another name.
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Right now, I can't read too good,
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don't send me no more letters, no
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Not unless you mail in
Outro 1
Desolation wrote
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