My Chemical Romance Lyric Booklet

*Desolation Row*

This was a song that MCR recorded for the 2009 film 'Watchmen'
The video for this song features Lyn-Z (Gerard's wife), and is a cover of the Bob Dylan song

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Desolation Row

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They're selling postcards of the hanging

Well they're painting the passports brown

And the beauty parlours filled with sailors

The circus is in town

Oh look now, here comes the blind comissioner

Well, they got him in a trance

One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker

The other's 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 seem so easy

'well it takes one to know one' she smiles

As she puts her hands in her back pocket

Oh, Bette Davis style

And now, here comes Romeo, moaning

'you belong to me I believe'

And somebody says 'you're in the

wrong place my friend

You'd better leave'

And then the only sound that's left

When the ambulances go

Is Cinderella sweepin' up

On Desolation Row

Now at midnight, all the agents

And the superhuman crew

Go out and round up everyone

That knows more than they do

(knows more than they do)

They're gonna bring 'em to the factory

Where the heart-attack machine

Is strapped across their shoulders

And then the kerosene

Is bought down from the castles

By insurance men who go

Check to see that no-one is escaping

To Desolation Row

'Cause right now I can't read too good

Dont send me no letters no

Not unless you're gonna mail them

From Desolation Row