They're selling postcards of the hanging 他们卖的挂明信片

They're painting the passports brown 他们画的护照棕色

The beauty parlor is filled with sailors 美容院充满水手

The circus is in town 马戏团在城里

Here comes the blind commissioner 来这里的盲人委员

They've got him in a trance 他们已经得到了他精神恍惚

One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker 一方面是绑的紧绳步行者

The other is in his pants 另一种是在他的裤子

And the riot squad they're restless 和防暴队他们坐立不安

They need somewhere to go 他们需要的地方去

As Lady and I look out tonight 至于夫人，我今天晚上看的出来

From Desolation Row. 从苍凉行。

   

Cinderella, she seems so easy 灰姑娘，她似乎很容易

"It takes one to know one," she smiles “这需要一个知道的， ”她微笑

And puts her hands in her back pockets 并把她的双手在她的口袋

Bette Davis style 贝蒂·戴维斯的风格

And in comes Romeo, he's moaning 而在谈到罗密欧，他的呻吟

"You belong to Me I Believe" “你是属于我的，我相信”

And someone says, "You're in the wrong place, my friend 有人说： “你错了地方，我的朋友

You better leave" 你最好离开“

And the only sound that's left 而剩下的唯一的声音

After the ambulances go 之后，救护车走

Is Cinderella sweeping up 是灰姑娘打扫

On Desolation Row. 在苍凉行。

   

Now the moon is almost hidden 现在，月球几乎隐藏

The stars are beginning to hide 明星都开始躲

The fortunetelling lady 算命小姐

Has even taken all her things inside 甚至已经采取了所有她的东西里面

All except for Cain and Abel 所有除该隐与亚伯

And the hunchback of Notre Dame 和巴黎圣母院的驼背

Everybody is making love 每个人都在做爱

Or else expecting rain 否则期待雨

And the Good Samaritan, he's dressing 而好撒玛利亚人，他是更衣室

He's getting ready for the show 他准备好演出

He's going to the carnival tonight 他今天晚上狂欢

On Desolation Row. 在苍凉行。

Now Ophelia, she's 'neath the window 现在绿萍，她的照耀下窗口

For her I feel so afraid 对于她，我觉得好害怕

On her twenty-second birthday 在她22岁生日

She already is an old maid 她已经是一个老女仆

To her, death is quite romantic 对她来说，死亡是很浪漫

She wears an iron vest 她穿着铁马甲

Her profession's her religion 她的专业是她的宗教

Her sin is her lifelessness 她所犯的罪是她无生命

And though her eyes are fixed upon 虽然她的眼睛都盯着

Noah's great rainbow 诺亚的大彩虹

She spends her time peeking 她花时间偷看

Into Desolation Row. 到苍凉行。

   

Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood 爱因斯坦，扮成罗宾汉

With his memories in a trunk 随着他在树干的回忆

Passed this way an hour ago 一个小时前就这样过去了

With his friend, a jealous monk 与他的朋友，一个嫉妒的和尚

He looked so immaculately frightful 他看上去是那么可怕的一尘不染

As he bummed a cigarette 当他人吗香烟

Then he went off sniffing drainpipes 然后，他去了嗅探排水管

And reciting the alphabet 和背诵字母表

You would not think to look at him 你不会想看看他

But he was famous long ago 但他是著名不久前

For playing the electric violin 对于玩电子小提琴

On Desolation Row. 在苍凉行。

   

Dr. Filth, he keeps his world 污物博士，他让他的世界

Inside of a leather cup 里面皮革杯

But all his sexless patients 不过，他所有的无性患者

They're trying to blow it up 他们正试图将其炸毁

Now his nurse, some local loser 现在他的护士，一些地方的失败者

She's in charge of the cyanide hole 她是负责氰化物孔

And she also keeps the cards that read 而她也一直在看牌

"Have Mercy on His Soul" “在他的灵魂怜悯”

They all play on penny whistles 他们都在竹篙打口哨

You can hear them blow 你可以听到他们吹

If you lean your head out far enough 如果你靠在你的头伸出远远不够

From Desolation Row. 从苍凉行。

Across the street they've nailed the curtains 在街对面，他们已经钉窗帘

They're getting ready for the feast 他们正准备在盛宴

The Phantom of the Opera 歌剧院的幽灵

In a perfect image of a priest 在牧师的完美形象

They're spoonfeeding Casanova 他们spoonfeeding卡萨诺瓦

To get him to feel more assured 让他觉得更放心

Then they'll kill him with self-confidence 然后，他们会杀了他的自信

After poisoning him with words 毒害他的话后，

And the Phantom's shouting to skinny girls 和幻影的呼喊，以骨感美女

"Get outa here if you don't know" “获取OUTA这里，如果你不知道”

Casanova is just being punished for going 卡萨诺瓦是刚刚被惩罚的准备

To Desolation Row. 荒凉行。

   

At midnight all the agents 午夜时分，所有的代理商

And the superhuman crew 和超人的船员

Come out and round up everyone 走出来，圆了大家

That knows more than they do 虽然知道比他们多一点

Then they bring them to the factory 然后，他们把他们的工厂

Where the heart-attack machine 当心脏攻击机

Is strapped across their shoulders 在其肩膀上绑

And then the kerosene 然后煤油

Is brought down from the castles 从城堡放倒

By insurance men who go 由保险人谁去

Check to see that nobody is escaping 检查看看，没有人逃脱

To Desolation Row. 荒凉行。

   

They be to Nero's Neptune 他们是Nero的海王星

The Titanic sails at dawn 泰坦尼克号航行在黎明

Everybody's shouting 大家的呼喊

"Which side are you on ?" “哪一方是你吗？ ”

And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot 和庞德和艾略特

Fighting in the captain's tower 战斗在船长的塔

While calypso singers laugh at them 虽然卡吕普索歌手嘲笑他们

And fishermen hold flowers 和渔民举行花

Between the windows of the sea 大海的窗口之间

Where lovely mermaids flow 凡可爱的美人鱼流

And nobody has to think too much 和任何人都没有想太多

About Desolation Row. 关于苍凉行。

Yes, I received your letter yesterday 是的，我昨天收到你的信

About the time the door knob broke 关于时间的门把手爆发

When you asked me how I was doing 如果你问我，我是怎么做的

Was that some kind of joke ? 是某种玩笑？

All these people that you mention 所有这些人，你提

Yes, I know them, they're quite lame 是的，我也认识他们，他们很蹩脚

I had to rearrange their faces 我不得不重新安排他们的脸

And give them all another name 并给予他们另一个名字

Right now I can't read too good 现在，我不能读得很好

Dont send me no more letters no 不要给我没有更多的字母不

Not unless you mail them 除非你mail给他们。

From Desolation Row. 从苍凉行。