Visions Of Johanna Lyrics - Marianne Faithfull

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet? 

We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it 

And louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it 

Lights flicker from the opposite loft 

In this room the heat pipes just cough 

The country music station plays soft 

But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off 

Just louise and her lover so entwined 

And these visions of johanna that conquer my mind. 

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Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial 

Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while 

But mona lisa musta had the highway blues 

You can tell by the way she smiles 

See the primitive wallflower freeze 

When the jelly-faced women all sneeze 

Hear the one with the mustache say, "jeeze 

I can't find my knees" 

Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule 

But these visions of johanna, they make it all seem so cruel. 

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The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him 

Sayin', "name me someone who's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him" 

But like louise always says 

"ya can't look at much, can ya man? " 

As she, herself, prepares for him 

And madonna, she still hasn't showed 

We see the empty cage now corrode 

Where her cape of the stage once had flowed 

The fiddler, he now steps on the road 

He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed 

On the back of the fish trucks that load 

While my conscience explodes 

The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain 

And these visions of johanna are now all that remain.