《Desolation Row(Live at TCN 9 TV， Sydney， Australia - April 1966)》歌词

[00:00:00] Desolation Row (Live at TCN 9 TV, Sydney, Australia - April 1966) - Bob Dylan

[00:00:02] Lyrics by：Bob Dylan

[00:00:03] Composed by：Bob Dylan

[00:00:15] They're selling postcards of the hanging

[00:00:19] They're painting the passports brown

[00:00:23] The beauty parlor is filled with sailors the circus is in town

[00:00:32] Here comes the blind commissioner they've got him in a trance

[00:00:39] One hand is tied to the tight-rope

[00:00:41] Walker the other is in his pants

[00:00:47] And the riot squad they're restless

[00:00:51] They need somewhere to go

[00:00:55] As Lady and I look out tonight from Desolation Row

[00:01:09] Cinderella she seems so easy

[00:01:14] It takes one to know one she smiles

[00:01:18] And puts her hands into her back

[00:01:19] Pockets Bette Davis style

[00:01:26] And in comes Romeo he's moaning

[00:01:29] You Belong to Me I Believe

[00:01:34] And someone turns in the face TV here

[00:01:37] My friend you'd better leave

[00:01:41] And the only sound that's left after the ambulances go

[00:01:49] Is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row

[00:02:00] Now the moon is almost hidden the stars

[00:02:05] They are just pretending to hide

[00:02:08] The fortune telling lady has even taken all her things inside

[00:02:16] All except for Cain and Abel and the hunchback of Notre Dame

[00:02:25] Everyone is he the making love or else expecting rain

[00:02:32] And the Good Samaritan he's dressing

[00:02:36] He's getting ready for the show

[00:02:40] He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row

[00:02:51] Ophelia she's 'neath the window for her I feel so afraid

[00:02:59] On her twenty-second birthday she already is an old maid

[00:03:06] Not to her death is quite romantic

[00:03:11] She wears an iron vest

[00:03:14] Her profession's her religion

[00:03:18] Her sin is her lifelessness

[00:03:22] And though her eyes are fixed upon Noah's great rainbow

[00:03:30] She spends her time peeking into Desolation Row

[00:03:43] Einstein disguised as Robin Hood

[00:03:47] With his memories in a trunk

[00:03:52] Passed this way an hour ago with

[00:03:55] His friend a jealous monk

[00:03:59] Now he looked so immaculately frightful

[00:04:03] As he bummed a cigarette

[00:04:07] And he when off sniffing drainpipes

[00:04:11] And reciting the alphabet

[00:04:15] You would not think to look at

[00:04:19] Him but he was famous long ago

[00:04:24] For playing the electric violin on Desolation Row

[00:04:35] Dr Filth he keeps his world

[00:04:40] Locked inside of a leather cup

[00:04:44] But all his sexless patients they're trying to blow it up

[00:04:52] Now his nurse some local loser she's

[00:04:56] In charge of the cyanide hole

[00:05:00] And she also keeps the cards

[00:05:03] That read Have Mercy on His Soul

[00:05:08] They all play on the penny whistles you can hear them blow

[00:05:15] If you lean your head out far enough from Desolation Row

[00:05:27] Across the street they've nailed the curtains

[00:05:31] They're getting ready for the feast

[00:05:35] The Phantom of the Opera in a perfect image of a priest

[00:05:42] They are spoon feeding Casanova to

[00:05:47] Get him to feel more assured

[00:05:50] Then they'll kill him with self-confidence

[00:05:54] After poisoning him with words

[00:05:58] And the Phantom's shouts to skinny girls

[00:06:03] Get outta here if you don't know

[00:06:06] Casanova he is just being punished

[00:06:10] For going to Desolation Row

[00:06:19] At midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew

[00:06:27] Come out and round up everyone

[00:06:30] That knows more than they do

[00:06:34] Then they bring them to the factory

[00:06:38] Where the heart-attack machine

[00:06:43] Is strapped across their shoulders and then the kerosene

[00:06:50] Is brought down from the castles by insurance men who go

[00:06:58] Check to see that noone is escaping to Desolation Row

[00:07:09] Praise be to Nero's Neptune the Titanic sails at dawn

[00:07:18] Everybody's shouting Which side are you on

[00:07:25] And Ezra Pound and TS Eliot

[00:07:30] Fighting in the captain's tower

[00:07:33] While calypso singers laugh at

[00:07:36] Them and fishermen hold flowers

[00:07:41] Between the windows of the sea

[00:07:45] Where lovely mermaids flow

[00:07:49] And nobody has to think too

[00:07:53] Much about Desolation Row

[00:08:48] Yes I received your letter yesterday

[00:08:54] About the time the doorknob broke

[00:08:58] When you asked me how I was doing

[00:09:02] Was that some kind of joke

[00:09:05] All these people that you mention

[00:09:10] Yes I know them they're quite lame

[00:09:14] I had to rearrange their faces

[00:09:17] And give them all another name

[00:09:21] Right now I can't read too good

[00:09:25] Don't send me no more letters no

[00:09:30] Not unless you mail them from Desolation Row