Visions of Johanna (Live from London 5/26/66) - Bob Dylan.mp3

[00:25.08]Ain't it just like the night to play tricks
[00:28.93]When you're tryin' to be so quiet
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[00:35.71]We sit here stranded though we're all doing our best to deny it
[00:42.49]
[00:45.71]And Louise holds a handful of rain tempting you to defy it
[00:52.94]
[00:56.12]Lights flicker from the opposite loft
[01:00.36]
[01:02.28]In this room the heat pipes just cough
[01:05.65]
[01:07.64]The country music station plays soft
[01:11.03]
[01:11.56]But there's nothing really nothing to turn off
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[01:21.52]Just Louise and her lover so entwined
[01:28.40]
[01:31.97]And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind
[01:40.92]
[01:52.69]In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain
[02:00.10]
[02:03.34]And the all night girls they whisper of escapades out on the d train
[02:10.17]
[02:13.32]We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
[02:16.95]Ask himself if it's him or them that's really insane
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[02:23.60]Louise she's all right she's just near
[02:26.74]
[02:29.35]She's delicate and seems like the mirror
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[02:33.51]But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
[02:37.49]That Johanna's not here
[02:39.81]
[02:46.14]The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face
[02:53.10]
[02:56.99]Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place
[03:05.94]
[03:15.49]Now little boy lost he takes himself so seriously
[03:20.35]
[03:23.90]He brags of his misery he likes to live dangerously
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[03:32.32]And when bringing her name up
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[03:35.09]He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
[03:38.43]
[03:41.46]He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all
[03:49.10]
[03:51.30]Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall
[03:57.80]
[04:00.42]Oh how can I explain
[04:04.81]It's so hard to get on
[04:08.04]
[04:12.15]And these visions of Johanna they kept me up past the dawn
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[04:31.52]Inside the museums infinity goes up on trial
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[04:39.80]Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
[04:45.67]
[04:49.59]But mona lisa musta had the highway blues
[04:53.91]You can tell by the way she smiles
[04:57.36]
[04:59.98]See the primitive wallflower frieze
[05:03.42]
[05:05.03]When the jelly faced women all sneeze
[05:08.37]
[05:09.78]Hear the one with the mustache say jeeze
[05:14.01]I can't find my knees
[05:17.04]
[05:20.18]Oh jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
[05:26.13]
[05:30.25]But these visions of Johanna they make it all seem so cruel
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[05:49.32]The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
[05:54.91]
[05:57.98]Saying name me someone that's not a parasite
[06:01.51]And I'll go out and say a prayer for him
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[06:07.82]But like Louise always says
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[06:10.46]Ya can't look at much can ya man
[06:12.58]As she herself prepares for him
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[06:17.57]And madonna she still has not showed
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[06:22.70]We see this empty cage now corrode
[06:26.02]
[06:27.94]Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
[06:31.29]
[06:32.83]The fiddler he now steps to the road
[06:36.25]
[06:37.66]He writes everything's been returned which was owed
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[06:42.94]On the back of the fish truck that loads
[06:47.37]While my conscience explodes
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[06:53.10]The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
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[07:03.51]And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain