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[Intro]
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A | D | E/B
[Verse 1]
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A A D E/B A
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
D E/B A
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
E/B A
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it
[Pre-Chorus (1)]
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D A
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
D A
In this room the heat pipes just cough
D
The country music station plays soft
A E/B
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
[Chorus (1)]
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A D E/B A
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
D A E/B A
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind
[Verse 2]
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A D E/B A A D E/B A
In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key
chain
D E/B A
And the allnight girls they whisper of escapades out on the "D" train
E/B
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
A
Ask himself if it's him or them that's insane
[Pre-Chorus (2)]
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D
Louise, she's all right, she's just near
A D A
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
D A
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
That Johanna's not here
[Chorus (2)]
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E/B A D E/B A
The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face
D A E/B A
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place
[Verse 3]
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A D E/B A A D E/B
Yeah, now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
A D E/B A
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
E/B
And when bringing her name up
He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
[Pre-Chorus (3)]
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A D A D
He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all
A D A
Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall
[Chorus (3)]
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E/B A
Oh, how can I explain?
D E/B A
It's so hard to get on
D A E/B A
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the
[Verse 4]
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A D E/B A A D E/B A
Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial
D E/B A
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
E/B
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues
You can tell by the way she smiles
[Pre-Chorus (4)]
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A D
See the primitive wallflower freeze
A D
When the jellyfaced women all sneeze
A D A
Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeez, I can't find my knees"
[Chorus (4)]
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E/B A D E/B A
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
D A E/B A
But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel
[Verse 5]
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A D E/B A A D E/B A
The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
D E/B A
Sayin', "Name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for
him"
E/B
But like Louise always says
"Ya can't look at much, can ya man?"
A
As she, herself, prepares for him
[Pre-Chorus (5)]
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D A
And Madonna, she still has not showed
D A
We see this empty cage now corrode
D A
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
D A
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
D A
He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed
D A
On the back of the fish truck that loads
E/B
While my conscience explodes
[Chorus (5)]
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A D E/B A
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
D A E/B A
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain
[Outro]
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