[ti:Visions of Johanna (Take 5, Rehearsal)] [ar:Bob Dylan] [al:The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol.12 (Deluxe Edition)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Visions of Johanna (Take 5, Rehearsal) - Bob Dylan [00:05.61]Written by:Bob Dylan [00:11.22]Ain't it just like the night to play tricks [00:15.02]When you're tryin' to be so quiet [00:22.25]We sit here stranded [00:24.99]Though we're all doin' our best to deny it [00:32.59]And louise holds a handful of rain [00:35.75]Tempting you to defy it [00:43.10]Lights flicker from the opposite loft [00:48.50]In this room the heat pipes just cough [00:53.87]The country music station plays soft [00:57.10]But there's nothing really nothing to turn off [01:03.64]Just louise and her lover [01:08.04]So entwined [01:14.69]And these visions of johanna [01:19.93]That conquer my mind [01:33.00]In the empty lot where the ladies play [01:36.42]Blindman's bluff with the keychain [01:43.84]And the all night girls they whisper of [01:47.32]Escapades out on the d train [01:54.88]We can hear the night watchman [01:57.23]Click his flashlight [01:58.50]Ask himself if it's him or them [01:59.83]It's insane [02:05.34]Louise she's all right she's just near [02:11.08]She's delicate and seems like the mirror [02:15.74]But she just makes it all to clear [02:19.49]That johanna's not here [02:24.58]The ghost of electricity [02:29.36]Howls in the bones of her face [02:36.89]Where these visions of johanna [02:42.11]Have now taken my place [02:53.58]Now little boy lost [02:55.80]He takes himself so seriously [03:03.94]He brags of his misery [03:06.39]He likes to live dangerously [03:14.51]And when bringing her name up [03:16.92]He speaks of a farewell kiss to me [03:25.20]He's sure got a lotta gall [03:30.44]To be so useless and all [03:35.90]Muttering small talk at the wall [03:39.22]While I'm in the hall [03:44.43]Oh how can I explain [03:48.64]It's so hard to get on [03:56.39]And these visions of johanna [04:01.23]They kept me up past the dawn [04:10.71]Inside the museums [04:13.72]Infinity goes up on trial [04:21.97]Voices echo 'this is what [04:24.60]Salvation must be like after a while' [04:32.24]But mona lisa musta had the highway blues [04:35.69]You can tell by the way she smiles [04:42.51]See the primitive wallflower freeze [04:47.93]When the jelly faced women all sneeze [04:53.22]Hear the one with the mustache say [04:56.09]Jeeze I can't find my knees [05:03.93]Oh jewels and binoculars [05:06.79]Hang from the head of the mule [05:14.31]But these visions of johanna [05:19.32]They make it all seem so cruel [05:30.07]The peddler now speaks to the countess [05:33.85]Who's pretending to care for him [05:40.64]Sayin' name me someone that's not a parasite [05:44.85]And I'll go out and say a prayer for him [05:50.84]But like louise always says [05:53.05]You can't look at much can you man [05:55.19]As she herself prepares for him [06:01.75]And madonna she still has not showed [06:06.81]We see this empty cage now corrode [06:12.14]Where her cape of the stage once had flowed [06:17.64]The fiddler he now steps to the road [06:22.64]He writes every thing's been gone which was owed [06:27.80]We see this empty cage now corrode [06:32.98]On the back of the fish truck that loads [06:36.86]My conscience explodes [06:42.96]The harmonicas play [06:46.09]The skeleton keys and the rain [06:53.78]And these visions of johanna [06:58.87]Are all that remain