Verse
G C D7 G
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
C D7 G
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
D G
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it
C G
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
C G
In this room the heat pipes just cough
C
The country music station plays soft
G D7
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
G C D7 G
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
C G D7 G C G
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind.
[Verse 2]
G C D7 G
In the empty lot where the ladies play blind man's bluff with the key chain
C D7 G
And the allnight girls, they whisper of escapades out on the "D" train
D
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
G
Ask himself if it's him or them that's realy insane
C G
Louise, she's allright, she's just near
C G
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
C
But she just makes it all too concice and too clear
G D7
That Johanna's not here
G C D7 G
The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face
C G D7 G C G
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place.
[Verse 3]
G C D7 G
Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
C D7 G
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
D G
And when bringing her name up He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
C G
He's sure got a lotta gall
C G
to be so useless and all
C
Muttering small talk at the wall
G D7
while I'm in the hall
G C D7 G
How can I explain? Oh, it's so hard to get on
C G D7 G C G
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn.
[Verse 4]
G C D7 G
Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
C D7 G
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
D G
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues You can tell by the way she smiles
C G
See the primitive wallflower freeze
C G
When the jellyfaced women all sneeze
C G D7
Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeeze, I can't find my knees"
G C D7 G
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
C G D7 G C G
But these visions of Johanna they make it all seem so cruel.
[Verse 5]
G C D7 G
The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
Sayin' "Name me someone that's not a parasite
C D7 G
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
C G
And Madonna, she still has not showed
C G
We see this empty cage now corrode
C G
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
C G
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
C G
He writes everything's been returned which was owed
C G D7
On the back of the fish truck that loads While my conscience explodes
G C D G
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
C G D7 G
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain.