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** Also provides one for an album by an entirely different artist: Music/SteelyDan's ''Can't Buy a Thrill'', taken from a line in "It Takes a Lot To Laugh, It Takes a Train To Cry:.
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** Also provides one for an album by an entirely different artist: Music/SteelyDan's ''Can't Buy a Thrill'', taken from a line in "It Takes a Lot To Laugh, It Takes a Train To Cry:.Cry".
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* TheTeamWannabe: Al Kooper's organ riff on "Like a Rolling Stone" is one of the most recognisable in music history. Despite the fact that he didn't know how to play the organ and wasn't supposed to be on the record at all, but basically walked into the studio, sat down at the organ and started fooling about because nobody explicitly told him ''not'' to. Dylan liked it and [[ThrowItIn kept it]].
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* TheTeamWannabe: Al Kooper's organ riff on "Like a Rolling Stone" is one of the most recognisable in music history. Despite history, and it was a complete accident. Kooper had been invited to the fact session as a guitarist, but there were already several guitarists, and while he could play piano, well-regarded session pianist Frank Owens[[note]]Who later became Creator/DavidLetterman's bandleader on his short-lived 1980 morning talk show[[/note]] had that he didn't know how to play slot filled. Then Kooper saw that the organ and wasn't supposed to be on the record at all, but basically walked into the studio, chair was empty, sat down at even though he'd never played the organ instrument before, and started fooling about because nobody explicitly told him ''not'' to. Dylan liked it and [[ThrowItIn kept it]].
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** ''Victory'' by Creator/JosephConrad, an author that Dylan is on-record as admiring, includes a villain named Mr. Jones, who has a slave named Pedro (described at several points as "faithful"), and this might be the source of Mr. Jones in "Ballad of a Thin Man" and "his faithful slave Pedro" in "Tombstone Blues".
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[[caption-width-right:350: ''"Something is happening here but you don't know what it is, do you, Mister Jones?"'']]
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[[caption-width-right:350: ''"Something ''"And something is happening here but you don't know know\\
what itis, do is / Do you, Mister Jones?"'']]
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* OffingTheOffspring: God commands Abraham to do this in the title track. While Literature/TheBible includes a happy ending where God stays Abraham's hand and ends the practice of human sacrifice among the Chosen, Dylan skips over that part, switching scenes for each verse.
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# "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train To Cry" (4:09)
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# "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train To to Cry" (4:09)
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-->You used to laugh about
-->Everybody that was hanging out,
-->Now you don't talk so loud,
-->Now you don't seem so proud
-->About having to be scrounging your next meal.
-->Everybody that was hanging out,
-->Now you don't talk so loud,
-->Now you don't seem so proud
-->About having to be scrounging your next meal.
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-->Everybody
Everybody that was hanging
-->Now
Now you don't talk so
-->Now
Now you don't seem so
-->About
About having to be scrounging your next meal.''
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-->Well, you walk into the room like a camel, and then you frown.
-->You put your eyes in your pocket and your nose on the ground.
-->There ought to be a law against you comin' around.
-->You should be made to wear earphones.
-->'Cause something is happening and you don't know what it is,
-->Do you, Mr. Jones?
-->You put your eyes in your pocket and your nose on the ground.
-->There ought to be a law against you comin' around.
-->You should be made to wear earphones.
-->'Cause something is happening and you don't know what it is,
-->Do you, Mr. Jones?
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-->You
You put your eyes in your pocket and your nose on the
-->There
There ought to be a law against you comin'
-->You
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-->'Cause
'Cause something is happening and you don't know what it
-->Do
Do you, Mr.
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--> ''And you know something is happening''
--> ''But you don't know what it is''
--> ''Do you, Mister Jones?''
--> ''But you don't know what it is''
--> ''Do you, Mister Jones?''
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--> ''But
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Do you, Mister Jones?''
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--> ''I started out on burgundy \\
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--> ''You used to be so amused at Napoleon in rags and the language that he used''
** Paul Revere, Belle Starr, Jezebel, UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, John the Baptist, the Philistine King, UsefulNotes/GalileoGalilei, Delilah, Creator/CecilBDeMille, Music/MaRainey, Music/LudwigVanBeethoven, and Gypsy Davy (a song by Music/WoodyGuthrie) in "Tombstone Blues".
--> ''The city fathers they're trying to endorse the reincarnation of Paul Revere's horse''
--> ''(...) The ghost of Belle Starr, she hands down her wits''
--> ''To Jezebel the nun she violently knits a bald wig for UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper (...)''
--> ''(...) Well, John the Baptist after torturing a thief''
--> ''Looks up at his hero the Commander-in-Chief (...)''
--> ''(...) The king of the Philistines his soldiers to save''
--> ''But jawbones on their tombstones and flatters their graves''
--> ''(...) Gypsy Davey with a blowtorch he bums out their camps''
--> ''(...) The geometry of innocence flesh on the bone''
--> ''Causes Galileo's math book to get thrown''
--> ''At Delilah who sit worthlessly alone''
--> ''But the tears on her cheeks are from laughter''
--> ''(...) Then send out for some pillars and Creator/CecilBDeMille''
--> ''When Ma Rainey and Beethoven once unwrapped their bed roll''
** Paul Revere, Belle Starr, Jezebel, UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, John the Baptist, the Philistine King, UsefulNotes/GalileoGalilei, Delilah, Creator/CecilBDeMille, Music/MaRainey, Music/LudwigVanBeethoven, and Gypsy Davy (a song by Music/WoodyGuthrie) in "Tombstone Blues".
--> ''The city fathers they're trying to endorse the reincarnation of Paul Revere's horse''
--> ''(...) The ghost of Belle Starr, she hands down her wits''
--> ''To Jezebel the nun she violently knits a bald wig for UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper (...)''
--> ''(...) Well, John the Baptist after torturing a thief''
--> ''Looks up at his hero the Commander-in-Chief (...)''
--> ''(...) The king of the Philistines his soldiers to save''
--> ''But jawbones on their tombstones and flatters their graves''
--> ''(...) Gypsy Davey with a blowtorch he bums out their camps''
--> ''(...) The geometry of innocence flesh on the bone''
--> ''Causes Galileo's math book to get thrown''
--> ''At Delilah who sit worthlessly alone''
--> ''But the tears on her cheeks are from laughter''
--> ''(...) Then send out for some pillars and Creator/CecilBDeMille''
--> ''When Ma Rainey and Beethoven once unwrapped their bed roll''
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--> ''She walks like Bo Diddley and she don't need no crutch''
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--> ''You've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books''
--> ''You're very well read; it's well known''
--> ''You're very well read; it's well known''
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* LongTitle: "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry"
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* RefrainFromAssuming: "Ballad of a Thin Man" is not called "Do You, Mr. Jones?"
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* FaceOnTheCover: Dylan, posing for the camera.
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* FaceOnTheCover: Dylan, posing for the camera. It looks like it was shot indoors somewhere, but it's actually him sitting on the front step of a New York apartment.
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* AmbiguousSyntax: The first lines of the last verse of "Desolation Row"--"Yes, I received your letter yesterday, about the time the doorknob broke." Did his doorknob just happen to break while he got the letter, or was the subject of the letter itself the doorknob breaking?
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** Music/TheRollingStones covered "Like a Rolling Stone", as was to be expected one day, on their live album ''Stripped'' from 1995.
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** Music/TheRollingStones Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} covered "Like a Rolling Stone", as was to be expected one day, on their live album ''Stripped'' from 1995.
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Many fans and rock historians consider it to be one of his masterpieces. ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s list of the [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]] ranks it at number four. ''Magazine/TimeMagazine'' included the album in its list of [[TimeAllTime100Albums 100 timeless and essential recordings]].
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Many fans and rock historians consider it to be one of his masterpieces. ''Magazine/RollingStone''s list of the [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]] ranks it at number four. ''Magazine/TimeMagazine'' included the album in its list of [[TimeAllTime100Albums 100 timeless and essential recordings]].
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Many fans and rock historians consider it to be one of his masterpieces. ''Magazine/RollingStone''s ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s list of the [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]] ranks it at number four. ''Magazine/TimeMagazine'' included the album in its list of [[TimeAllTime100Albums 100 timeless and essential recordings]].
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''Highway 61 Revisited'' is the sixth studio album by Music/BobDylan, released in 1965. It is best known for the hits and fan favourites "Like a Rolling Stone", "Ballad of a Thin Man", "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Desolation Row".
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''Highway 61 Revisited'' is the sixth studio album by Music/BobDylan, released in 1965. It His first all-electric album, it is best known for the hits and fan favourites favorites "Like a Rolling Stone", "Ballad of a Thin Man", "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Desolation Row".
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** "Desolation Row," the place and the song, is inhabited with a variety of public domain characters that seem to symbolize separate aspects of humanity. The characters include Literature/{{Cinderella}}, Creator/BetteDavis, [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet Romeo]], [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} Ophelia]], CainAndAbel, Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame, UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein, [[JustLikeRobinHood Robin Hood]], Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera, [[TheCasanova Giacomo Casanova]], the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic, Creator/EzraPound, and Creator/TSEliot.
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** "Desolation Row," the place and the song, is inhabited with a variety of public domain characters that seem to symbolize separate aspects of humanity. The characters include Literature/{{Cinderella}}, Creator/BetteDavis, [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet Romeo]], [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} Ophelia]], CainAndAbel, Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame, [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} Ophelia]], [[Literature/BookOfGenesis Noah]], UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein, [[JustLikeRobinHood Robin Hood]], Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera, [[TheCasanova Giacomo Casanova]], the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic, Creator/EzraPound, and Creator/TSEliot.
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* TheDissTrack:
** "Like a Rolling Stone" sharply criticizes a former privileged and haughty woman who has fallen down on her luck.
-->You used to laugh about
-->Everybody that was hanging out,
-->Now you don't talk so loud,
-->Now you don't seem so proud
-->About having to be scrounging your next meal.
** "Ballad of a Thin Man" is a snarling indictment of a pseudo-intellectual who dislikes Dylan's music.
-->Well, you walk into the room like a camel, and then you frown.
-->You put your eyes in your pocket and your nose on the ground.
-->There ought to be a law against you comin' around.
-->You should be made to wear earphones.
-->'Cause something is happening and you don't know what it is,
-->Do you, Mr. Jones?
** "Like a Rolling Stone" sharply criticizes a former privileged and haughty woman who has fallen down on her luck.
-->You used to laugh about
-->Everybody that was hanging out,
-->Now you don't talk so loud,
-->Now you don't seem so proud
-->About having to be scrounging your next meal.
** "Ballad of a Thin Man" is a snarling indictment of a pseudo-intellectual who dislikes Dylan's music.
-->Well, you walk into the room like a camel, and then you frown.
-->You put your eyes in your pocket and your nose on the ground.
-->There ought to be a law against you comin' around.
-->You should be made to wear earphones.
-->'Cause something is happening and you don't know what it is,
-->Do you, Mr. Jones?
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** In Music/TheBeatles' song "Yer Blues" on ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'' (1968), Music/JohnLennon sings "I feel so suicidal/just like Dylan's "Mr. Jones", which is a reference to the title character in "Ballad of a Thin Man".
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** In Music/TheBeatles' song "Yer Blues" on ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'' (1968), Music/JohnLennon sings "I feel so suicidal/just like Dylan's "Mr. Jones", 'Mr. Jones'", which is a reference to the title character in "Ballad of a Thin Man".
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** Music/TalkingHeads revisited the Mr. Jones character from "Ballad of a Thin Man" with their own song, aptly titled [[Music/{{Naked}} "Mr. Jones"]], in 1988.
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* CircusOfFear: "Ballad of a Thin Man", if we would take the lyrics literally, takes places at a creepy carnival circus.
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* CircusOfFear: "Ballad of a Thin Man", if we would take the lyrics literally, takes places at a creepy carnival circus.circus, where Mr. Jones encounters a geek, a sword swallower, and a one-eyed midget.
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* PoliceAreUseless: "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" claims that "The cops don't need you, and man, they expect the same." Then they brag about committing {{Blackmail}}.
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** A stanza of "Highway 61 Revisited" is narrated in ''Film/TheHunted'' from 2003 by Music/JohnnyCash at the beginning and at the end of the movie.
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** A stanza of "Highway 61 Revisited" is narrated in ''Film/TheHunted'' from 2003 ''Film/TheHunted2003'' by Music/JohnnyCash at the beginning and at the end of the movie.
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* LongestSongGoesLast: The album closes with "Desolation Row" (11:21).
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* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: The one-eyed midget in "Ballad of a Thin Man".
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* PublicExecution: The first line of "Desolation Row" establishes that public hangings are so essential to the Row that they sell postcards of them.
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* PublicExecution: The first line of "Desolation Row" establishes that public hangings are so essential to the Row that they sell postcards of them.them, implying quite a bit of demand.
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* PrincessInRags: "Like a Rolling Stone"
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* PrincessInRags: "Like a Rolling Stone"Stone" is about a Miss Lonely, a wealthy woman who once was rich enough to hang out with diplomats and never worry about to future, only to be forced to hunt for meals and pawn off her diamond ring for money. Dylan's narrator sings happily about all this, finding the sudden humility of Miss Lonely a good thing.
* PublicExecution: The first line of "Desolation Row" establishes that public hangings are so essential to the Row that they sell postcards of them.
* PublicExecution: The first line of "Desolation Row" establishes that public hangings are so essential to the Row that they sell postcards of them.
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* SadClown: The subject of "Like A Rolling Stone" ignored the fact that all the "clowns" who entertained her were frowning and miserable until she couldn't afford to.
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* SuperSpeed: The famous siren whistle sound that kicks of the song "Highway 61 Revisited" and reappears at various moments throughout the song.
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* TheStarsAreGoingOut: In "Desolation Row," the moon and stars are disappearing at the same time a fortune teller is retreating into her home, hinting either at a coming darkness or an unpredictable future.
%%* SuperSpeed: The famous siren whistle sound that kicks of the song "Highway 61 Revisited" and reappears at various moments throughout the song.
%%* SuperSpeed: The famous siren whistle sound that kicks of the song "Highway 61 Revisited" and reappears at various moments throughout the song.
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* LyricalDissonance: "Like a Rolling Stone".
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* LyricalDissonance: "Like a Rolling Stone".Stone" is sung in an energetic tone that contrasts with the lyrics about scrounging for your next meal, living on the streets without knowing how to survive, and having everything stolen from you. The dissonance seems to make the same points the lyrics do, that all these seemingly terrible things are for the better.
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* MoralityBallad: "Like a Rolling Stone"
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* MoralityBallad: "Like a Rolling Stone"Stone" is about how losing everything one cherishes can ultimately be liberating.
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** Literature/{{Cinderella}}, Creator/BetteDavis, [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet Romeo]], [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} Ophelia]], CainAndAbel, Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame, UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein, [[JustLikeRobinHood Robin Hood]], Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera, [[TheCasanova Giacomo Casanova]], the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic, Creator/EzraPound, and Creator/TSEliot in "Desolation Row".
--> ''Cinderella, she seems so easy''
--> ''"It takes one to know one", she smiles''
--> ''And puts her hands in her back pockets''
--> ''Creator/BetteDavis style''
--> ''And in comes Romeo, he's moaning''
--> ''(...) The fortune telling lady has even taken all her things inside''
--> ''All except for Cain and Abel and the hunchback of Notre Dame''
--> ''(...) And the Good Samaritan, he's dressing''
--> ''(...) Now Ophelia, she's 'neath the window''
--> ''For her I feel so afraid''
--> ''On her twenty-second birthday she already is an old maid''
--> ''To her, death is quite romantic''
--> ''She wears an iron vest''
--> ''Her profession is her religion''
--> ''Her sin is her lifelessness''
--> ''And though her eyes are fixed upon''
--> ''Noah's great rainbow''
--> ''She spends her time peeking into Desolation Row''
--> ''Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood with his memories in a trunk''
--> ''Passed this way an hour ago, with his friend, a jealous monk''
--> ''(...) The Phantom of the Opera''
--> ''In a perfect image of a priest''
--> ''They're spoon-feeding Casanova''
--> ''To get him to feel more assured''
--> ''Then they'll kill him with self-confidence''
--> ''After poisoning him with words''
--> ''And the Phantom's shouting to skinny girls''
--> ''"Get outa here if you don't know''
--> ''Casanova is just being punished for going to Desolation Row''
--> ''(...) Praise be to heroes of Neptune''
--> ''The Titanic sails at dawn''
--> ''(...) And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot fighting in the captain's tower''
--> ''Cinderella, she seems so easy''
--> ''"It takes one to know one", she smiles''
--> ''And puts her hands in her back pockets''
--> ''Creator/BetteDavis style''
--> ''And in comes Romeo, he's moaning''
--> ''(...) The fortune telling lady has even taken all her things inside''
--> ''All except for Cain and Abel and the hunchback of Notre Dame''
--> ''(...) And the Good Samaritan, he's dressing''
--> ''(...) Now Ophelia, she's 'neath the window''
--> ''For her I feel so afraid''
--> ''On her twenty-second birthday she already is an old maid''
--> ''To her, death is quite romantic''
--> ''She wears an iron vest''
--> ''Her profession is her religion''
--> ''Her sin is her lifelessness''
--> ''And though her eyes are fixed upon''
--> ''Noah's great rainbow''
--> ''She spends her time peeking into Desolation Row''
--> ''Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood with his memories in a trunk''
--> ''Passed this way an hour ago, with his friend, a jealous monk''
--> ''(...) The Phantom of the Opera''
--> ''In a perfect image of a priest''
--> ''They're spoon-feeding Casanova''
--> ''To get him to feel more assured''
--> ''Then they'll kill him with self-confidence''
--> ''After poisoning him with words''
--> ''And the Phantom's shouting to skinny girls''
--> ''"Get outa here if you don't know''
--> ''Casanova is just being punished for going to Desolation Row''
--> ''(...) Praise be to heroes of Neptune''
--> ''The Titanic sails at dawn''
--> ''(...) And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot fighting in the captain's tower''
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** "Desolation Row," the place and the song, is inhabited with a variety of public domain characters that seem to symbolize separate aspects of humanity. The characters include Literature/{{Cinderella}}, Creator/BetteDavis, [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet Romeo]], [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} Ophelia]], CainAndAbel, Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame, UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein, [[JustLikeRobinHood Robin Hood]], Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera, [[TheCasanova Giacomo Casanova]], the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic, Creator/EzraPound, and Creator/TSEliot in "Desolation Row".
--> ''Cinderella, she seems so easy''
--> ''"It takes one to know one", she smiles''
--> ''And puts her hands in her back pockets''
--> ''Creator/BetteDavis style''
--> ''And in comes Romeo, he's moaning''
--> ''(...) The fortune telling lady has even taken all her things inside''
--> ''All except for Cain and Abel and the hunchback of Notre Dame''
--> ''(...) And the Good Samaritan, he's dressing''
--> ''(...) Now Ophelia, she's 'neath the window''
--> ''For her I feel so afraid''
--> ''On her twenty-second birthday she already is an old maid''
--> ''To her, death is quite romantic''
--> ''She wears an iron vest''
--> ''Her profession is her religion''
--> ''Her sin is her lifelessness''
--> ''And though her eyes are fixed upon''
--> ''Noah's great rainbow''
--> ''She spends her time peeking into Desolation Row''
--> ''Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood with his memories in a trunk''
--> ''Passed this way an hour ago, with his friend, a jealous monk''
--> ''(...) The Phantom of the Opera''
--> ''In a perfect image of a priest''
--> ''They're spoon-feeding Casanova''
--> ''To get him to feel more assured''
--> ''Then they'll kill him with self-confidence''
--> ''After poisoning him with words''
--> ''And the Phantom's shouting to skinny girls''
--> ''"Get outa here if you don't know''
--> ''Casanova is just being punished for going to Desolation Row''
--> ''(...) Praise be to heroes of Neptune''
--> ''The Titanic sails at dawn''
--> ''(...) And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot fighting in the captain's tower''Creator/TSEliot.
--> ''Cinderella, she seems so easy''
--> ''"It takes one to know one", she smiles''
--> ''And puts her hands in her back pockets''
--> ''Creator/BetteDavis style''
--> ''And in comes Romeo, he's moaning''
--> ''(...) The fortune telling lady has even taken all her things inside''
--> ''All except for Cain and Abel and the hunchback of Notre Dame''
--> ''(...) And the Good Samaritan, he's dressing''
--> ''(...) Now Ophelia, she's 'neath the window''
--> ''For her I feel so afraid''
--> ''On her twenty-second birthday she already is an old maid''
--> ''To her, death is quite romantic''
--> ''She wears an iron vest''
--> ''Her profession is her religion''
--> ''Her sin is her lifelessness''
--> ''And though her eyes are fixed upon''
--> ''Noah's great rainbow''
--> ''She spends her time peeking into Desolation Row''
--> ''Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood with his memories in a trunk''
--> ''Passed this way an hour ago, with his friend, a jealous monk''
--> ''(...) The Phantom of the Opera''
--> ''In a perfect image of a priest''
--> ''They're spoon-feeding Casanova''
--> ''To get him to feel more assured''
--> ''Then they'll kill him with self-confidence''
--> ''After poisoning him with words''
--> ''And the Phantom's shouting to skinny girls''
--> ''"Get outa here if you don't know''
--> ''Casanova is just being punished for going to Desolation Row''
--> ''(...) Praise be to heroes of Neptune''
--> ''The Titanic sails at dawn''
--> ''(...) And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot fighting in the captain's tower''