Here's what I think about Bob Dylan's Desolation Row:
First two verses of the song was covered by MCR and are about the whore of the earth.
"Now the moon is almost hidden The stars are beginning to hide The fortune-telling lady Has even taken all her things inside" - Sailor Mercury became the 89th president of hell after Sailor Moon sacrificed herself for her to turn back to the light side. She sure was fine with fortune telling, crystals, astrology, and instituted the Romance Train. I thought My Chemical Romance hated vampires.
"All except for Cain and Abel And the hunchback of Notre Dame Everybody is making love Or else expecting rain And the Good Samaritan, he's dressing He's getting ready for the show He's going to the carnival tonight On Desolation Row"
-The hunchback of Notre Dame - lived before the flood. Chernabog had three wives and his main squeeze was Lilith (Hocus Pocus). Chernabog (three of cups in Tarot looks like the end of Fantasia to me. You do know Tarot cards were just playing cards in Britain, right?)
"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's 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"
-Ophelia is like Archangel Gabriel. Noah was out drunk the night while, Shem and him had sex all night. Jesus Christ did tell me he was pissed at Shem for letting his husband die in the flood. He said it would have been better for him to have just drown in the flood with Gabriel. I guess he thought it was fine if he took a wife after he got that out of his system.
"Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood With his memories in a trunk Passed this way an hour ago With his friend, a jealous monk Now he looked so immaculately frightful As he bummed a cigarette Then he went off sniffing drainpipes And reciting the alphabet You would not think to look at him But he was famous long ago For playing the electric violin On Desolation Row"
-Einstein came up with the theory of relativity but never received a Noble Prize for it. Did that Jew actually not reach enlightenment like Carl Sagan did? He received a Nobel Prize for the work he did with light.
"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" - - (Last part about the apocolypse in the MCR covr) The Church of Jesus Christ (especially the son of perdition) likes to police whether people are going to desolation row.
