[ti:Visions of Johanna (Live)] [ar:Bob Dylan] [al:Side Tracks] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Visions of Johanna (Live at the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK - May 1966) - Bob Dylan [00:05.28]Written by:B. Dylan [00:10.57]Ain't it just like the night to [00:13.29]Play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet [00:21.09]We sit here stranded though we're all doing our best to deny it [00:31.22]And Louise holds a handful of rain tempting you to defy it [00:41.61]Lights flicker from the opposite loft [00:47.68]In this room the heat pipes just cough [00:52.99]The country music station plays soft [00:56.94]But there's nothing really nothing to turn off [01:07.16]Just Louise and her lover so entwined [01:17.38]And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind [01:38.07]In the empty lot where the ladies play blind man's bluff with the key chain [01:48.67]And the all night girls they whisper of escapades out on the d train [01:58.78]We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight [02:02.63]Ask himself if it's him or them that's really insane [02:08.45]Louise she's all right she's just near [02:14.17]She's delicate and seems like veneer [02:18.70]But she just makes it all too concise and too clear [02:22.80]That Johanna's not here [02:31.40]The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face [02:42.20]Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place [03:00.65]Now little boy lost he takes himself so seriously [03:08.99]He brags of his misery he likes to live dangerously [03:17.36]And when bringing her name up [03:20.20]He speaks of a farewell kiss to me [03:26.63]He's sure got a lot of gall to be so useless and all [03:36.61]Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall [03:45.65]Oh how can I explain [03:49.97]It's so hard to get on [03:57.28]And these visions of Johanna they kept me up past the dawn [04:16.60]Inside the museums infinity goes up on trial [04:24.77]Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while [04:34.60]But Mona lisa must have had the highway blues [04:38.94]You can tell by the way she smiles [04:45.13]See the primitive wallflower freeze [04:50.03]When the jelly faced women all sneeze [04:54.77]Hear the one with the mustache say jeez [04:58.95]I can't find my knees [05:05.20]Oh jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule [05:15.29]But these visions of Johanna they make it all seem so cruel [05:34.13]The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him [05:42.61]Saying name me someone that's not a parasite [05:46.47]And I'll go out and say a prayer for him [05:52.60]But like Louise always says [05:55.43]You can't look at much can yo man [05:57.56]As she herself prepares for him [06:02.41]And Madonna she still has not showed [06:07.56]We see this empty cage now corrode [06:12.80]Where her cape of the stage once had flowed [06:17.62]The fiddler he now steps to the road [06:22.53]He writes everything's been returned which was owed [06:27.79]On the back of the fish truck that loads [06:32.26]While my conscience explodes [06:37.83]The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain [06:48.41]And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain