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Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
D# F7 A#
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
F A#
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it
D# A#
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
D# A#
In this room the heat pipes just cough
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The country music station plays soft
A# F7
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
A# D# F7 A#
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
D# A# F7 A# D# A#
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind.
[Verse 2]
A# D# F7 A#
In the empty lot where the ladies play blind man's bluff with the key chain
D# F7 A#
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
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Ask himself if it's him or them that's realy insane
D# A#
Louise, she's allright, she's just near
D# A#
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
D#
But she just makes it all too concice and too clear
A# F7
That Johanna's not here
A# D# F7 A#
The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face
D# A# F7 A# D# A#
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place.
[Verse 3]
A# D# F7 A#
Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
D# F7 A#
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
F A#
And when bringing her name up He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
D# A#
He's sure got a lotta gall
D# A#
to be so useless and all
D#
Muttering small talk at the wall
A# F7
while I'm in the hall
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How can I explain? Oh, it's so hard to get on
D# A# F7 A# D# A#
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn.
[Verse 4]
A# D# F7 A#
Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
D# F7 A#
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
F A#
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues You can tell by the way she smiles
D# A#
See the primitive wallflower freeze
D# A#
When the jellyfaced women all sneeze
D# A# F7
Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeeze, I can't find my knees"
A# D# F7 A#
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
D# A# F7 A# D# A#
But these visions of Johanna they make it all seem so cruel.
[Verse 5]
A# D# F7 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# F7 A#
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
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-pares for him
D# A#
And Madonna, she still has not showed
D# A#
We see this empty cage now corrode
D# A#
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
D# A#
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
D# A#
He writes everything's been returned which was owed
D# A# F7
On the back of the fish truck that loads While my conscience explodes
A# D# F A#
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
D# A# F7 A#
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain.
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