[00:12.793]Ain't it just like the night to play Tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet
[00:23.416]We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
[00:33.708]And Louise holds hand ful of rain
[00:37.724]Temptin' you to defy it
[00:41.176]
[00:44.049]Lights flicker from the opposite loft
[00:49.893]In this room the heat pipes just cough
[00:55.055]The country music station plays soft
[00:58.310]But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
[01:03.478]
[01:04.500]Just Louise
[01:07.692]And her lover so entwined
[01:15.236]And these visions of Johanna
[01:20.521]That conquer my mind
[01:24.493]
[01:35.798]In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain
[01:46.486]And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the D train
[01:56.621]We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
[02:01.062]Ask himself if it's him or them that's really insane
[02:03.793]
[02:07.402]Louise, she's all right, she's just near
[02:12.832]She's delicate and seems like the mirror
[02:17.689]But she makes it all to concise and clear
[02:21.412]That Johanna's not here
[02:24.379]
[02:27.568]The ghost of 'lectricity
[02:31.255]Howls in the bones of her face
[02:38.191]Where these visions of Johanna
[02:43.163]Have now taken my place
[02:47.460]
[02:58.694]Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
[03:09.283]He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
[03:19.251]And when bringing her name up
[03:22.237]He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
[03:26.793]
[03:29.453]He's sure got a lotta gall
[03:35.228]To be so useless and all
[03:40.263]Muttering small talk at the wall
[03:44.109]While i'm in the hall
[03:46.144]
[03:49.612]Oh, how can i explain
[03:53.339]It's so hard to get on
[04:00.146]And these visions of Johanna
[04:05.340]They kept me up past the dawn
[04:09.845]
[04:20.361]Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial
[04:31.182]Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
[04:41.007]But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues
[04:44.828]You can tell by the way she smiles
[04:48.378]
[04:51.629]See the primitive wallflower freeze
[04:56.700]When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
[05:01.461]Hear the one with the mustache say, jeeze, I can't find my knees.'
[05:08.121]
[05:12.103]Both jewels and binoculars
[05:15.215]Hang from the head of the mule
[05:21.923]But these visions of Johanna
[05:26.948]they make it all seem so cruel
[05:31.618]
[05:42.295]The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
[05:52.563]Sayin', ‘name me someone that's not a parasite，and I'll go out and say a prayer for him’
[06:02.508]But like Louise always says
[06:05.274]You can't look at much, can you man’as she, herself, prepares for him“
[06:09.804]
[06:12.675]My Madonna
[06:14.439]She still has not showed
[06:17.821]We see this empty cage now corrode
[06:22.984]Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
[06:26.895]
[06:28.373]The fiddler
[06:29.646]He now steps to the road
[06:32.873]He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed
[06:37.950]On the back of the fish truck that loads
[06:41.810]
[06:42.216]While my conscience explodes
[06:47.701]The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
[06:58.042]And these visions of Johanna
[07:03.105]Are now all that remain
[07:06.789]