From Desolation Row On Desolation Row Selling postcards Of the hanging They're painting The passports brown The beauty parlor Is filled with sailors

Do not spray into eyes I have sprayed you into my eyes Indo-china, Capa jumps Jeep, two feet creep up the road To photo, to record, meat lumps and war They advance as does his chance, oh, oh Very yellow white flash! A violent wrench grips mass, rips

God be with you Ireland God be with you now (I have served my time) (Suffered for my crime) The truth will ever hide Even though I tried They tried to take my pride But they only took my father from me They only took my father

I've been lookin' for you baby, I've been lookin' for you baby All night long, all night long, all night long And all these pretty people up on El Cerrito Place They all got somethin' in their pockets, all got somethin' on their face Me I've been lookin'

I laid the night before me Unraveled the tangles of my heart All I felt was stale hallow air These streams of uncertainty They are collapsing upon my mind Torrents fill my veins until I burst With mistaken guilt and shame My battered bones Try to keep

All I gotta do is play it cool And end the night with a kiss My hands are sweatin' heavy Something she's got got me feeling like this Hey Hey, hey baby's on the way I ain't been doin to right Since I met her last night Some kinda burnin' breakfast Lost at

Wrap myself around you, never let you go I gotta get back now to the ones who love me There's nothin' in the world that feels like Coming home There's a place that I know where they all know me The place that I know where they all know me Coming home,

But no flame burns forever, oh no You and I both know this all too well And most don't even last the night One last time Just one last time With the twilight No they don't, they say they don't Without holding back my mind Oh babe, meet me in Tompkins

There must be some way out of here Said the joker to the thief There's too much confusion I can't get no relief Businessmen, they drink my wine Plowmen dig my earth None of them along the line Know what any of it is worth No reason to get excited

(Have some mercy on me) Hey alligator, have some mercy on me And you should know by now my heart is in your teeth Cold blooded, hot headed, I love it, I can't escape you Why do I come back for more? It's human nature Have some mercy on me Hold me tight