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From: larpe@oden.nts.mh.se (Petter Larsson)
Verse 1
Ain't it
just like the night to play
tricks when you're
tryin' to be so
quiet?
We sit here stranded, though we're all
doin' our
best to deny
it
And Loui
se holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to de
fy it
Lights fl
icker from the opposite l
oft
In t
his room the heat pipes just co
ugh
The c
ountry music station plays sof
t
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn o
ff
Just Loui
se and her
lover
so en
twined
And these visions
of Johanna
that
conquer my mind.
Verse 2
In the empty
lot where the ladies play
blind man's
bluff with the
key chain
And the allnight girls, they whi
sper of escapa
des out on the "D"
train
We can h
ear the night watchman click his flashlight
Ask himself if it's him or them that's realy in
sane
Lou
ise, she's allright, she's just n
ear
She's d
elicate and seems like the
mirror
But she just m
akes it all too concice and too clear
That Johanna's not here
The
ghost of 'lectricity
howls in the b
ones of her
face
Where these visions
of Johanna
have now
taken my place.
Verse 3
Now,
little boy lost, he tak
es himself so
serious
ly
He brags of his misery, he likes
to live
dangerously
And when bri
nging her name up He speaks of a farewell kiss to
me
He's s
ure got a lotta
gall
to
be so useless and
all
Mutter
ing small talk at the wall
while I'm in the
hall
How can
I explain? Oh,
it's so h
ard to get
on
And these visions
of Johanna
, they kept me
up past the dawn.
Verse 4
Ins
ide the museums,
Infinity g
oes up on
trial
Voices echo this is what sal
vation must be
like after a whil
e
But Mona
Lisa musta had the highway blues You can tell by the way she
smiles
See the p
rimitive wallflower fr
eeze
When the je
llyfaced women all sn
eeze
Hear the
one with the mustache say, "J
eeze, I can't find my knees"
Oh, j
ewels and binoculars h
ang from the h
ead of the m
ule
But these visions o
f Johanna t
hey make i
t all seem so c
ruel.
Verse 5
The p
eddler now speaks to the co
untess who's prete
nding to c
are for him
Sayin' "Name me someone that's not a parasite
and I'll go out
and say a prayer
for him." But like Louise
always says, "Ya can't look at much, can ya man?" As she, herself, pre
-pares for him
And Ma
donna, she still has not sho
wed
We see this e
mpty cage now corro
de
Where her c
ape of the stage once had fl
owed
The fiddler,
he now steps to the r
oad
He writes
everything's been returned which was
owed
On the back
of the fish truck that loads
While my conscience exp
lodes
The harm
onicas play the s
keleton
keys and the
rain
And these visions
of Johanna
are now
all that re
main.
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