[ti:Visions of Johanna (Live at the ABC Theatre, Belfast, Ireland - May 1966)] [ar:Bob Dylan] [al:Live 1962-1966 - Rare Performances From The Copyright Collections] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Visions of Johanna (Live at the ABC Theatre, Belfast, Ireland - May 1966) - Bob Dylan [00:05.58]Lyrics by:Bob Dylan [00:11.17]Composed by:Bob Dylan [00:16.76]Ain't it just like the night [00:19.42]To play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet [00:26.78]We sit here stranded though [00:29.17]We're all doin' our best to deny it [00:36.15]And Louise holds a handful of rain [00:40.33]Temptin' you to defy it [00:46.25]Lights flicker from the opposite loft [00:52.13]In this room the heat pipes just cough [00:56.97]The country music station plays soft [01:00.84]But there's nothing [01:01.71]Really nothing to turn off [01:07.67]Just Louise and her lover so entwined [01:17.95]And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind [01:37.92]In the empty lot where the ladies [01:40.51]Play blindman's bluff with the key chain [01:48.15]And the all-night girls they whisper [01:51.87]Of escapades out on the D train [01:57.80]We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight [02:01.73]Ask himself if it's him or them [02:03.84]That should be insane [02:06.40]And louise she's all right [02:08.85]She's just near [02:11.92]She's delicate she's seems like the mirror [02:16.24]But she just makes it all too concise and too clear [02:20.20]That Johanna's not here [02:26.34]The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face [02:35.91]Where these visions of [02:38.38]Johanna have now taken my place [02:54.90]Little boy in lost [02:57.02]He takes himself so seriously [03:04.15]He brags of his misery [03:06.62]He likes to live dangerously [03:13.29]And when bringing her name up [03:16.22]He speaks of a farewell kiss to me [03:21.65]He's sure got a lotta [03:23.45]Gall to be so useless and all [03:29.89]Muttering small talk at [03:32.16]The wall while I'm in the hall [03:38.19]Ooo [03:38.96]How can I explain [03:42.16]It's so hard to get on [03:48.72]And these visions of Johanna [03:53.52]They kept me up past the dawn [04:07.45]Inside the museums infinity goes up on trial [04:16.48]Voices echo this is what [04:19.21]Salvation must be like after a while [04:26.10]But Mona Lisa musta had the [04:28.00]Highway blues [04:29.38]You can tell by the way she smiles [04:34.90]See the primitive wallflower freeze [04:39.70]When the jelly-faced women all sneeze [04:43.95]Hear the one with the mustache say [04:46.85]Jeez I can't find my knees [04:53.76]Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule [05:02.79]But these visions of Johanna [05:07.67]They make it all seem so cruel [05:22.49]The peddler now speaks to the [05:25.14]Countess who's pretending to care for him [05:31.47]Sayin' [05:31.88]Name me somebody it's wanna [05:33.60]Parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him [05:41.04]But like Louise always says [05:43.80]Ya can't look at much [05:44.97]Can ya man [05:45.80]As she herself prepares for him [05:50.89]And Madonna she still has not showed [05:55.70]We see this empty cage now corrode [06:00.40]Where her cape of the stage once had flowed [06:05.31]The fiddler he now steps to the road [06:09.53]He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed [06:14.16]On the back of the fish truck that loads [06:18.13]While my conscience explodes [06:23.56]The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain [06:33.06]And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain