Key: A major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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When you're tryin' to be so quiet
We sit here stranded,
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though we're all doin' our be st to deny it
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D
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temptin' you to defy it
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Lights flicker from the opposite loft
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In this room the heat pipes just cough
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The country music station plays soft
But there's nothing,
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lover so entwined
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And these visions of Johanna
Interlude 1
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D
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In the empty
Verse 2
lot where the ladies play
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blindman's bluff with the key chain
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escapades out on the "D" train
click his flashlight
Ask himself if it's him or them
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She's delicate and seems like the mirror
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The ghost of 'lectricity howls in
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the bones of her face
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Where these visions of Johanna
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have now taken my place
Verse 3
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he takes himself so seriously
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he likes to live dangerously
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He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
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He's sure got a lotta gall to be
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so useless and all
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Muttering small talk at the wall
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while I'm in the hall
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How can I explain
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It's so hard to get on
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And these visions of Johanna,
Interlude 2
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Verse 4
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infinity goes up on trial
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must be like after a while
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But Mona Lisa musta had
the highway blues
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You can tell by the way she smiles
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See the primitive wallflower freeze
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Hear the one with the mustache say,
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"Jeez, I can't find my knees"
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Oh, jewels and binoculars hang
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from the head of the mule
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But these visions of Johanna,
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Verse 5
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The peddler now speaks to the countess who's
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pretending to care for him
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Sayin', name me someone that's not a parasite
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and I'll go out and say a prayer for him
You can't look at much, can ya man
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We see this empty cage now corrode
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once had flowed
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He writes everything's been
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returned which was owed
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On the back of the fish
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truck that loads
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The harmonicas play the skeleton
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keys and the rain
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And these visions of Johanna
Outro 1
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