[ti:Visions of Johanna (Live)] [ar:Old Crow Medicine Show] [al:50 Years of Blonde on Blonde (Live)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Visions of Johanna (Live) - Old Crow Medicine Show [00:04.98]Written by:Bob Dylan [00:09.96]Ain't it just like the night to play tricks [00:13.45]When you're trying to be so quiet [00:20.00]We sit here stranded though we're all doing our best to deny it [00:29.46]And Louise holds a handful of rain tempting you to defy it [00:39.63]Lights flicker from the opposite loft [00:44.17]In this room the heat pipes just cough [00:49.29]The country music station plays soft [00:52.49]But there's nothing really nothing to turn off [00:58.62]Just Louise and her lover who so entwined [01:08.36]And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind [01:20.47]In the empty lots where the ladies play blind man's bluff with the key chain [01:30.21]And the all night girls they whisper of escapades out on the D train [01:39.42]You can hear the night watchman click his flashlight [01:42.99]Ask himself if it's him or them that's insane [01:49.22]And Louise she's all right she's just near [01:54.23]She's delicate and seems like veneer [01:58.97]But she just makes it all too concise and too clear [02:02.49]That Johanna's not here [02:08.54]The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face [02:18.40]Where these visions of Johanna have not taken my place [02:30.60]Now little boy lost he takes himself so seriously [02:40.57]He brags of his misery he likes to live dangerously [02:49.78]And when bringing her name up [02:52.62]He speaks of a farewell kiss to me [02:59.85]He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all [03:09.65]Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall [03:18.67]Oh how can I explain [03:22.03]It's so hard to get on [03:28.76]And these visions of Johanna they kept me up past the dawn [03:40.92]Inside the museums infinity goes up on trial [03:50.50]Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after awhile [03:59.76]But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues [04:03.11]You can tell by the way she smiles [04:09.58]See the primitive wallflower freeze [04:14.63]When the jelly-faced women all sneeze [04:19.42]Hear the one with the mustache say jeez [04:22.89]I can't find my knees [04:29.15]Oh jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule [04:38.40]But these visions of Johanna they make it all seem so cruel [05:19.24]The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him [05:28.75]Saying name me someone that's not a parasite [05:31.95]And I'll go out and say a prayer for him [05:38.22]But like Louise always says [05:40.98]You can't look at much can you man [05:42.55]As she herself prepares for him [05:47.90]And Madonna she still has not showed [05:52.78]We see this empty cage not corrode [05:57.54]The fiddler he now steps to the road [06:01.81]He writes everything's been returned which was owed [06:06.35]On the back of the fish truck that loads [06:10.16]While my conscience explodes [06:16.45]The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain [06:25.28]And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain