Key: E major
Intro 1
E
Verse 1
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s at the hanging
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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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the other is in his pants.
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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Betty Davis style
And in walks Romeo, he's moaning
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You belong to me, I believe
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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On her 22nd birthday
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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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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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Dame
Everybody's either making love
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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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B
With his memories in a trunk
Passed this way an hour ago
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as he bummed a cigarette.
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and reciting the alphabet.
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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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B
she's in charge of the cyanide hole.
She also keeps the cards that read,
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have mercy on his soul.
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Yes, you can hear them blow
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If you lean your head out far enough
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on the distillation room
Across the street,
they've nailed the curtains
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Phantom of the opera
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To get him to feel more assured
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An d the phantom's shouting
Two skinny girls
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You don't know Casanova's
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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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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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Then the kerosene
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By insurance men who go
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To make sure nobody's escaping
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To desolation roads
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Oh, praise be to Nero's Neptune,
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the Titanic sails at dawn,
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which side are you on?
Israel Town and T .S. Eliot,
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the captain's tower,
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while Calypso singers laugh at them,
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Where lovely 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 doorknob broke
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Is that some kind of joke?
All these people that you mention
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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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don't send me no more letters, no
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Not unless you mail in
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