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Grateful Dead
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They're selling postcards of the hangin'
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They're paintin' the passports brown
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The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
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The circus is in town
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People watch the blind commissioner
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They've got him in a trance
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One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
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The other is in his pants
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And the riot squad they're restless
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They need somewhere to go
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As lady and I look out tonight
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From desolation row
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Well Cinderella, she seems so easy
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"It takes one to know one," while she smiles
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Puts her hands in her back pockets
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Bette Davis style
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And you the watch Romeo, he's moanin'
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You belong to me I believe
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And someone says
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"You're in the wrong place, my friend you better leave"
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And the only sound that you can here
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After the ambulance's gone
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Cinderella sweeping up
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On desolation row
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Now Ophelia, she's neath the window
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For her I feel so afraid
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On her twenty-second birthday
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She already is an old maid
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To her, death is quite romantic
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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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And though her eyes
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Are fixed upon Noah's great rainbow
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She spends her time
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Peeking it on desolation row
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Einstein disguised as Robin Hood
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With his memories in a trunk
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Passed this way an hour ago
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With his friend, a jealous monk
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He looked so immaculately frightful
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As he bummed a cigarette
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And he went off sniffing drainpipes
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And reciting the alphabet
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Oh, you would think to look at him
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But he was famous long ago
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For playing the electric violin
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On desolation row
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Dr. Filth, he keeps his world
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Inside of a leather cup
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But all his sexless patients
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They're all trying to blow it up
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Now his nurse, some local loser
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She's in charge of the cyanide hole
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And she also keeps the cards that read
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"Have mercy on his soul"
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They all play on the penny whistles, whistles
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You can hear then blow
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If you lean your head out far enough
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From desolation row
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Across the street they've nailed the curtains
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They're getting ready for the feast
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The Phantom of the Opera
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A perfect image of a priest
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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 Phantom's shouting to skinny girls
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"Get outa here If you don't know"
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Casanova is just being punished for going
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To desolation row
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Now at midnight all the agents
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And the superhuman crew
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Come out and round up everyone
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That knows more than they do
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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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And then the kerosene
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Is brought down from the castles
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By insurance men who go
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To make sure that nobody is escaping
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To desolation row
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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?"
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And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
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They're fighting in the captain's tower
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While calypso singers laugh at them
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And fishermen hold flowers
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Between the windows of the sea
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Where lovely mermaids flow
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And no one has to think too much
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About desolation row
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Yes, I received your letter yesterday
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About the time the door knob broke
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When you asked how I was doin'
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Was that some kind of joke?
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All these people that you mention
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Yes, I know them, they're quite lame
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I had to rearrange their faces
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And give them all another name
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Right now I can't read so good
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Don't send me no more letters no
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Not unless you mail them
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