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Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
E F#7 B
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
F# B
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it
E B
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
E B
In this room the heat pipes just cough
E
The country music station plays soft
B F#7
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
B E F#7 B
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
E B F#7 B E B
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind.
[Verse 2]
B E F#7 B
In the empty lot where the ladies play blind man's bluff with the key chain
E F#7 B
And the allnight girls, they whisper of escapades out on the "D" train
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We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
B
Ask himself if it's him or them that's realy insane
E B
Louise, she's allright, she's just near
E B
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
E
But she just makes it all too concice and too clear
B F#7
That Johanna's not here
B E F#7 B
The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face
E B F#7 B E B
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place.
[Verse 3]
B E F#7 B
Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
E F#7 B
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
F# B
And when bringing her name up He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
E B
He's sure got a lotta gall
E B
to be so useless and all
E
Muttering small talk at the wall
B F#7
while I'm in the hall
B E F#7 B
How can I explain? Oh, it's so hard to get on
E B F#7 B E B
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn.
[Verse 4]
B E F#7 B
Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
E F#7 B
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
F# B
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues You can tell by the way she smiles
E B
See the primitive wallflower freeze
E B
When the jellyfaced women all sneeze
E B F#7
Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeeze, I can't find my knees"
B E F#7 B
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
E B F#7 B E B
But these visions of Johanna they make it all seem so cruel.
[Verse 5]
B E F#7 B
The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
Sayin' "Name me someone that's not a parasite
E F#7 B
and I'll go out and say a prayer for him." But like Louise
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always says, "Ya can't look at much, can ya man?" As she, herself, pre
B
-pares for him
E B
And Madonna, she still has not showed
E B
We see this empty cage now corrode
E B
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
E B
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
E B
He writes everything's been returned which was owed
E B F#7
On the back of the fish truck that loads While my conscience explodes
B E F# B
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
E B F#7 B
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain.
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