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D G A7 D
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
G A7 D
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
A D
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it
G D
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
G D
In this room the heat pipes just cough
G
The country music station plays soft
D A7
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
D G A7 D
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
G D A7 D G D
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind.
[Verse 2]
D G A7 D
In the empty lot where the ladies play blind man's bluff with the key chain
G A7 D
And the allnight girls, they whisper of escapades out on the "D" train
A
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
D
Ask himself if it's him or them that's realy insane
G D
Louise, she's allright, she's just near
G D
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
G
But she just makes it all too concice and too clear
D A7
That Johanna's not here
D G A7 D
The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face
G D A7 D G D
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place.
[Verse 3]
D G A7 D
Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
G A7 D
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
A D
And when bringing her name up He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
G D
He's sure got a lotta gall
G D
to be so useless and all
G
Muttering small talk at the wall
D A7
while I'm in the hall
D G A7 D
How can I explain? Oh, it's so hard to get on
G D A7 D G D
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn.
[Verse 4]
D G A7 D
Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
G A7 D
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
A D
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues You can tell by the way she smiles
G D
See the primitive wallflower freeze
G D
When the jellyfaced women all sneeze
G D A7
Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeeze, I can't find my knees"
D G A7 D
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
G D A7 D G D
But these visions of Johanna they make it all seem so cruel.
[Verse 5]
D G A7 D
The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
Sayin' "Name me someone that's not a parasite
G A7 D
and I'll go out and say a prayer for him." But like Louise
A
always says, "Ya can't look at much, can ya man?" As she, herself, pre
D
-pares for him
G D
And Madonna, she still has not showed
G D
We see this empty cage now corrode
G D
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
G D
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
G D
He writes everything's been returned which was owed
G D A7
On the back of the fish truck that loads While my conscience explodes
D G A D
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
G D A7 D
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain.