My Chemical Romance - Desolation Row lyrics

rate me

They're selling postcards of the hanging

They're painting the passports brown

The beauty parlor is filled with sailors

The circus is in town

Here comes the blind commissioner

Well they've got him in a trance

One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker

The other is in his pants

And the riot squad they're restless

They need somewhere to go

As Lady And I look out tonight

From Desolation Row

Cinderella she seems so easy

"Well it takes one to know one" she smiles

And puts her hands in her back pockets

Bette Davis style

And in comes Romeo moaning

"You Belong to Me I Believe"

And someone says

"You're in the wrong place my friend you better leave"

And the only sound that's left after the ambulances go

Is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row

Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew

Go and round up everyone that knows more than they do

Then they bring them to the factory where the heart-attack machine

Is strapped across their shoulders and then the kerosene

Is brought down from the castles by insurance men who go

Check to see that nobody is escaping

To Desolation Row

Right now I can't read too good

Don't send me no more letters no

Not unless you mail them

From Desolation Row