Monday, March 30

homage.

ain't it just like the night to play tricks
when you're trying to be so quiet?
we sit here stranded
though we're all doing our best to deny it
and louise holds a handful of rain
tempting 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 theres 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 keychain
and the all-night girls they whisper of
escapades out on the D train


we can hear the light watchman
click his flashlight
ask himself if it's him or them
it's insane


louise, she's alright, 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 electricity
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 a farewell kiss to me

He’s sure gotta 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 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 moustache say“Jeez, I can’t find my knees”


Oh, jewels and binoculars
Hang 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
‘you can’t look at much can you 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 everything’s been returned which was owed
On the back of the fish truck he loads
While my conscience explodes

The harmonicas play
The skeleton keys and the rain
And these visions of Johanna
Are now all that remain

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all pictures from weheartit

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