Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
D E7 AWe sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
E AAnd Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
D AIn this room the heat pipes just cough
DThe country music station plays soft
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
A D E7 AJust Louise and her lover so entwined
D A E7 A D AAnd these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind.
A D E7 A
In the empty lot where the ladies play blind man's bluff with the key chain
And the allnight girls, they whisper of escapades out on the "D" train
EWe can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
AAsk himself if it's him or them that's realy insane
Louise, she's allright, she's just near
D AShe's delicate and seems like the mirror
DBut she just makes it all too concice and too clear
That Johanna's not here
A D E7 AThe ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face
D A E7 A D AWhere these visions of Johanna have now taken my place.
A D E7 A
Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
E AAnd when bringing her name up He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
D AHe's sure got a lotta gall
to be so useless and all
DMuttering small talk at the wall
A E7while I'm in the hall
How can I explain? Oh, it's so hard to get on
D A E7 A D AAnd these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn.
A D E7 A
Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
D E7 AVoices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues You can tell by the way she smiles
D ASee the primitive wallflower freeze
D AWhen the jellyfaced women all sneeze
Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeeze, I can't find my knees"
A D E7 AOh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
D A E7 A D ABut these visions of Johanna they make it all seem so cruel.
A D E7 A
The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
Sayin' "Name me someone that's not a parasite
D E7 Aand I'll go out and say a prayer for him." But like Louise
Ealways says, "Ya can't look at much, can ya man?" As she, herself, pre
-pares for him
D AAnd Madonna, she still has not showed
D DWe see this empty cage now corrode
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
D AThe fiddler, he now steps to the road
D AHe writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed
On the back of the fish truck that loads While my conscience explodes
A D E AThe harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
D A E7 AAnd these visions of Johanna are now all that remain.
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