My Chemical Romance – Desolation Row

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They're selling postcards of the hanging.
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Where they're painting the passports brown.
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And the beauty parlor's filled with sailors.
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The circus is in town.
Oh now here comes the blind commissoner.
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Well they've got him in a trance.
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One hand is tied to the tightrope walker.
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The other's in his pants.

Chorus:
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And the riot squad they're restless
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They need some where to go.
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As lady and I look out tonight
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On Desolation Row.

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Cinderella she seem so easy.
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Well it takes on to know one she smiles.
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Then puts her hand in her back pocket,
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Betty davis style.
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And then in comes Romeo moaning.
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You Belong to me I believe.
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And someone says your in the wrong place my friend
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You better leave.
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And the only sound that's left
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After the ambulances go.
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Is Cinderella sweeping up
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On Desolation Row.
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Now at midnight all the agents
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And the superhuman crews
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Go Out and Round up everyone
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That knows more than they do.
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They gonna bring them to the factory
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Where the heart attack machines
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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 that Go
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Check to see that no one is escaping
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To Desolation Row

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Cause Right now I can't read too good
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Don't send me no more letters no.
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Not unless you gotto 
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Desolation Row.