Desolation Row (From "Watchmen")

[00:17.06] They're selling postcards of the hanging
[00:19.60] Well, they're painting the passports brown
[00:22.49] Yeah, the beauty parlor's filled with sailors
[00:25.66] The circus is in town
[00:28.28] Oh no, but here comes the blind commissioner
[00:30.87] Well, they've got him in a trance
[00:33.82] One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
[00:37.12] The other's in his pants
[00:39.67] And the riot squad, they're restless
[00:42.46] They need somewhere to go
[00:45.34] As Lady and I look out tonight from
[00:48.96] Desolation Row
[00:52.51] Oh, Cinderella, she seems so easy
[00:55.16] Well, it takes one to know one, she smiles
[00:58.28] And she puts her hands in her back pockets
[01:01.36] Bette Davis style
[01:03.95] Now, but here comes Romeo, moaning
[01:06.73] You belong to me, I believe
[01:09.54] And someone says
[01:11.20] You're in the wrong place, my friend
[01:13.18] You better leave
[01:15.14] And then the only sound that's left
[01:17.99] After the ambulances go
[01:21.03] Is Cinderella sweeping up on
[01:24.48] Desolation Row
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[01:54.11] Yeah, at midnight all the agents
[01:56.86] And superhuman crew
[01:59.75] Go out and round up everyone
[02:02.76] That knows more than they do
[02:05.32] They're gonna bring them to the factory
[02:08.55] Where the heart-attack machine
[02:11.23] Is strapped across their shoulders
[02:13.92] And then the kerosene
[02:16.84] Is brought down from the castles
[02:19.50] By insurance men who go
[02:22.41] Check to see that no one is escaping to
[02:26.12] Desolation Row
[02:28.32] 'Cause right now
[02:29.43] I can't read too good
[02:31.19] Don't send me no letters, no
[02:33.88] Not unless you gotta mail them from
[02:37.77] Desolation Row
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