Lyrics Visions of Johanna (Live, Philadelphia, March 18, 1995) - Grateful Dead
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.
In
the
empty
lot
where
the
ladies
play
Blindman's
bluff
with
the
key
chain,
And
the
all-night
girls
they
whisper
of
escapades
out
on
the
"D"
train.
We
can
hear
the
night
watchman
click
his
flashlight,
Ask
himself
if
it's
him
or
them
that's
really
insane.
But
Louise
she's
all
right,
she's
just
near,
She's
delicate
and
seems
like
the
mirror,
But
she
just
makes
it
all
too
concise
and
too
clear
That
Johanna's
not
here.
The
ghost
of
'lectricity
howls
in
the
bones
of
her
face.
Where
these
visions
of
Johanna
have
now
taken
my
place.
Now,
little
boy
lost,
he
takes
himself
so
seriously.
He
brags
of
his
misery,
he
likes
to
live
dangerously,
And
when
bringing
her
name
up
he
speaks
of
her
farewell
kiss
to
me.
He's
sure
got
a
lot
of
gall
to
be
so
useless
and
all,
Muttering
small
talk
at
the
wall
while
I'm
in
the
hall.
Oh,
how
can
I
explain?
It's
so
hard
to
get
on
And
these
visions
of
Johanna,
they
kept
me
up
past
the
dawn.
Inside
the
museums
Infinity
goes
up
on
trial
Voices
echo
this
is
what
salvation
must
be
like
after
a
while.
But
even
Mona
Lisa
must
have
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
hag
from
the
head
of
the
mule,
But
these
visions
of
Johanna
they
make
it
all
seem
so
cruel.
The
peddler
now
speaks
to
the
countess
who's
pretending
to
care
for
him.
Saying
"Name
me
someone
that'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
has
not
showed,
We
see
this
empty
cage
now
corrode,
Where
her
cape
of
the
stage
once
had
flowed,
The
fiddler,
he
now
steps
to
the
road,
He
writes
ev'rything's
been
returned
which
was
owed
On
the
back
of
the
fish
truck
that
loads
While
my
conscience
explodes.
The
harmonicas
play
the
skeleton
keys
and
the
rain
And
these
visions
of
Johanna
are
now
all
that
remain.
1 Hard to Handle (Live, Hollywood, August 16, 1971)
2 Dancin' In the Streets (Live, San Francisco, April 12, 1970)
3 New Speedway Boogie (Live Acoustic, Unknown, 1970)
4 Viola Lee Blues (Live, Chicago, April 26, 1969)
5 Easy Wind (Live, New York, May 15, 1970)
6 Mason's Children (Live, New York, January 2, 1970)
7 The Music Never Stopped (Live, East Troy, WI, July 17, 1989)
8 Jack-A-Roe (Live, Tuscaloosa, May 17, 1977)
9 In the Midnight Hour (Live, Rio Nido, CA, September 3, 1967)
10 Visions of Johanna (Live, Philadelphia, March 18, 1995)
11 Box of Rain (Live, East Troy, WI, July 19, 1989)
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