When all conversation is rendered mute, then you are left talking to a trainspotter about trains
And you really need to know when the bus is due, as you have somewhere important that you need to be

Please take your meds today. Thank you

Dr. Filth, he keeps his world
Inside of a leather cup
But all his sexless patients
They're trying to blow it up
Now his nurse, some local loser
She's in charge
Of the cyanide hole
And she also keeps
The cards that read
"Have Mercy on His Soul"
They all play
On penny whistles
You can hear them blow
If you lean
Your head out far enough
From Desolation Row

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"

( I suppose it's only fair to state that these lines are a Robert Zimmerman quote and part of his song Desolation Row)