In These Times, Still Feelin' the Birthday Gras for Bobby

[ancianita]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by Omaha Steve (a host of the Video & Multimedia forum).

...Across the street
They've nailed the curtains
They're getting ready
For the feast
The Phantom of the Opera
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 Outta Here
If You Don't Know
Casanova is just being
Punished for going
To Desolation Row"

Now at midnight all the agents
And the superhuman crew
Come out 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

Praise be to Nero's Neptune
The Titanic sails at dawn
And everybody's shouting
"Which Side Are You On?"
And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
Fighting in the captain's tower
While calypso singers laugh at them
And fishermen hold flowers
Between the windows of the sea
Where lovely mermaids flow
And nobody has to think too much
About Desolation Row

Yes,
I received your letter yesterday
(About the time the door knob broke)
When you asked how I was doing
Was that some kind of joke?
All these people that you mention
Yes, I know them, they're quite lame
I had to rearrange their faces
And give them all another name
Right now I can't read too good
Don't send me no more letters no
Not unless you mail them
From Desolation Row

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Gotta love the Bob ...

Hi ancianita

I got one for ya ... a song CLEARLY written to the same tune ... also a fave of mine ...

[ancianita]

2. Gotta

Hiya, Hugh! Thanks for sharing. I'm in need of some music in the midst of my current Chicago chaos.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. Got another I posted earlier ... this is so friggin good ... trust me :)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/103454175

[ancianita]

4. You're so right! Thank you!

Almost sounds like a breakup song sung for the other party, but they don't think like that.

[Advrider28]

5. One of my favorites

[ancianita]

6. I agree with the many who say it's his best song on his best album.

Bobby: this song's too long

Grateful Dead: hold my beer...

[Omaha Steve]

7. After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING

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