[ti:Visions Of Johanna(Album Versi] [ar:Bob Dylan] [al:Biograph] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Visions of Johanna (Live at the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK - May 1966) - Bob Dylan [00:11.32]Ain't it just like the night to play tricks [00:15.08]When you're tryin' to be so quiet [00:19.72] [00:21.85]We sit here stranded [00:24.61]Though we're all doin' our best to deny it [00:29.91] [00:31.90]And Louise holds a handful of rain [00:36.15]Tempting you to defy it [00:39.90] [00:42.27]Lights flicker from the opposite loft [00:46.76] [00:48.32]In this room the heat pipes just cough [00:52.28] [00:53.78]The country music station plays soft [00:57.79]But there's nothing really nothing to turn off [01:01.98] [01:07.60]Just Louise and her lover [01:12.27]So entwined [01:14.83] [01:18.15]And these visions of Johanna [01:22.70] [01:23.64]That conquer my mind [01:27.71] [01:38.76]In the empty lot where the ladies play [01:42.56]Blindman's bluff with the keychain [01:46.87] [01:49.31]And the all night girls they whisper of [01:53.07]Escapades out on the"D" train [01:56.71] [01:59.27]We can hear the night watchman [02:01.89]Click his flashlight [02:03.07]Ask himself if it's him or them [02:05.32]It's insane [02:09.33]Louise she's all right she's just near [02:12.97] [02:14.78]She's delicate and seems like the mirror [02:18.52] [02:19.47]But she just makes it all too concise and too clear [02:23.41]That Johanna's not here [02:26.04] [02:32.03]The ghost of electricity [02:34.78] [02:35.36]Howls in the bones of her face [02:39.73] [02:42.80]Where these visions of Johanna [02:48.09]Have now taken my place [02:53.36] [03:01.44]Now little boy lost [03:03.44]He takes himself so seriously [03:06.87] [03:09.68]He brags of his misery [03:12.36]He likes to live dangerously [03:15.80] [03:18.04]And when bringing her name up [03:20.85]He speaks of a farewell kiss to me [03:24.53] [03:27.17]He's sure got a lotta gall [03:30.11] [03:32.22]To be so useless and all [03:35.15] [03:37.09]Muttering small talk at the wall [03:41.21]While I'm in the hall [03:44.08] [03:46.20]Oh how can I explain [03:50.57]It's so hard to get on [03:54.12] [03:57.81]And these visions of Johanna [04:01.92] [04:02.67]They kept me up past the dawn [04:06.99] [04:17.45]Inside the museums [04:20.57]Infinity goes up on trial [04:23.75] [04:25.43]Voices echo 'This is what [04:27.93]Salvation must be like after a while' [04:31.86] [04:35.23]But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues [04:39.55]You can tell by the way she smiles [04:43.82] [04:45.51]See the primitive wallflower freeze [04:49.83] [04:50.58]When the jelly faced women all sneeze [04:54.76] [04:55.45]Hear the one with the mustache say [04:58.45]"Jeeze I can't find my knees" [05:03.31] [05:05.87]Oh jewels and binoculars [05:08.55]Hang from the head of the mule [05:12.48] [05:15.87]But these visions of Johanna [05:20.64]They make it all seem so cruel [05:24.90] [05:34.84]The peddler now speaks to the countess [05:38.52]Who's pretending to care for him [05:40.71] [05:43.27]Sayin'"Name me someone that's not a parasite [05:47.01]And I'll go out and say a prayer for him" [05:50.44] [05:53.26]But like Louise always says [05:56.01]"You can't look at much can you man" [05:58.01]As she herself prepares for him [06:01.26] [06:03.07]And Madonna she still has not showed [06:07.24] [06:08.19]We see this empty cage now corrode [06:12.23] [06:13.43]Where her cape of the stage once had flowed [06:17.23] [06:18.28]The fiddler he now steps to the road [06:21.90] [06:23.09]He writes every thing's been returned which was owed [06:28.52]On the back of the fish truck that loads [06:32.96]While my conscience explodes [06:35.85] [06:38.61]The harmonicas play [06:42.15]The skeleton keys and the rain [06:45.51] [06:49.00]And these visions of Johanna [06:53.31] [06:53.93]Are now all that remain