YouLyric
Sign in
Sign up for free
Desolation Row
Share
Various Artists
What's this song about?
Generate meaning
1
They're selling postcards of the hanging
2
They're painting the passports brown
3
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors, the circus is in town
4
Here comes the blind commissioner, they've got him in a trance
5
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker, the other is in his pants
6
And the riot squad they're restless, they need somewhere to go
7
As Lady and I look out tonight, from Desolation Row
8
Cinderella, she seems so easy, "It takes one to know one," she smiles
9
And puts her hands in her back pockets, Bette Davis style
10
And in comes Romeo, he's moaning, "You belong to me I believe"
11
And someone says,"You're in the wrong place
12
My friend, you better leave"
13
And the only sound that's left after the ambulances go
14
Is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row
15
Now, the moon is almost hidden, the stars are beginning to hide
16
The fortune telling lady, has even taken all her things inside
17
All except for Cain and Abel and the hunchback of Notre Dame
18
Everybody is making love or else expecting rain
19
And the Good Samaritan, he's dressing, he's getting ready for the show
20
He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row
21
Ophelia, she's 'neath the window, for her I feel so afraid
22
On her twenty-second birthday, she already is an old maid
23
To her, death is quite romantic, she wears an iron vest
24
Her profession's her religion, her sin is her lifelessness
25
And though her eyes are fixed upon Noah's great rainbow
26
She spends her time peeking into Desolation Row
27
Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood, with his memories in a trunk
28
Passed this way an hour ago with his friend, a jealous monk
29
Now, he looked so immaculately frightful as he bummed a cigarette
30
Then he went off sniffing drainpipes and reciting the alphabet
31
You would not think to look at him but he was famous long ago
32
For playing the electric violin on Desolation Row
33
Dr. Filth, he keeps his world inside of a leather cup
34
But all his sexless patients, they're trying to blow it up
35
Now his nurse, some local loser, she's in charge of the cyanide hole
36
And she also keeps the cards that read, 'Have Mercy on His Soul'
37
They all play on penny whistles, you can hear them blow
38
If you lean your head out far enough from Desolation Row
39
Across the street they've nailed the curtains
40
They're getting ready for the feast
41
The Phantom of the Opera in a perfect image of a priest
42
They're spoonfeeding Casanova to get him to feel more assured
43
Then they'll kill him with self-confidence after poisoning him with words
44
Then the Phantom's shouting to skinny girls
45
"Get outta here if you don't know
46
Casanova is just being punished for going to Desolation Row"
47
At midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew
48
Come out and round up everyone that knows more than they do
49
Then they bring them to the factory where the heart-attack machine
50
Is strapped across their shoulders and then the kerosene
51
Is brought down from the castles by insurance men who go
52
Check to see that nobody is escaping to Desolation Row
53
Praise be to Nero's Neptune, the Titanic sails at dawn
54
Everybody's shouting, "Which side are you on?"
55
And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, fighting in the Captain's Tower
56
While calypso singers laugh at them and fishermen hold flowers
57
Between the windows of the sea, where lovely mermaids flow
58
And nobody has to think too much about Desolation Row
59
Yes, I received your letter yesterday, about the time the door knob broke
60
When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke?
61
All these people that you mention, yes, I know them, they're quite lame
62
I had to rearrange their faces and give them all another name
63
Right now I can't read too good, don't send me no more letters, no
64
Not unless you mail them from Desolation Row
My Chemical Romance - Desolation Row [Of...
1.2K views
1 meanings
Go Pro
Unlimited meanings ยท Priority generation
Upgrade