Visions of Johanna

Song Visions of Johanna
Artist Bob Dylan
Album Starbucks 40 - A 40th Anniversary Collection

Lyrics

[00:02.07] Visions of johanna
[00:04.07] Bob Dylan
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[00:11.39] Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
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[00:21.83] We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
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[00:31.95] And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it
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[00:42.32] Lights flicker from the opposite loft
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[00:48.38] In this room the heat pipes just cough
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[00:53.94] The country music station plays soft
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[00:57.82] But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
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[01:07.82] Just Louise and her lover so entwined
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[01:18.26] And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind
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[01:39.27] In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain
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[01:49.64] And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the "D" train
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[01:59.36] We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
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[02:03.49] Ask himself if it's him or them that's really insane
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[02:09.29] Louise, she's all right, she's just near
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[02:14.80] She's delicate and seems like the mirror
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[02:19.49] But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
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[02:23.42] That Johanna's not here
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[02:32.24] The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face
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[02:42.92] Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place
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[03:01.42] Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
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[03:09.74] He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
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[03:18.05] And when bringing her name up
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[03:20.92] He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
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[03:27.42] He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all
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[03:37.17] Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall
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[03:46.29] How can I explain?
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[03:50.67] Oh, it's so hard to get on
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[03:57.92] And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn
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[04:18.05] Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
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[04:25.54] Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
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[04:35.79] But Mona Lisa must had the highway blues
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[04:39.61] You can tell by the way she smiles
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[04:45.79] See the primitive wallflower freeze
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[04:51.36] When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
[04:53.80]
[04:56.73] Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeeze
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[05:00.35] I can't find my knees"
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[05:06.35] Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
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[05:16.85] But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel
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[05:35.75] The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
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[05:43.68] Sayin', "Name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him"
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[05:53.88] But like Louise always says
[05:56.24] "Ya can't look at much, can ya man?"
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[06:00.62] As she, herself, prepares for him
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[06:03.81] And Madonna, she still has not showed
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[06:09.18] We see this empty cage now corrode
[06:14.31] Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
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[06:18.69] The fiddler, he now steps to the road
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[06:23.25] He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed
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[06:28.49] On the back of the fish truck that loads
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[06:32.93] While my conscience explodes
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[06:38.74] The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
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[06:49.24] And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain