Sunday, July 27, 2008

Bob Dylan


Gracias a Dios que te escuche! Ese hombre me hace tan bien...

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Visions of johanna


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
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 howlsin 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 got a lotta gall
to be so useless and all
Muttering small talk at the wall while
I'm in the hall
How can I explain?
Oh, 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 womenall sneeze
Hear the one with the mustache say,
"Jeeze 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
Sayin', "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 keysand the rain
And these visions of Johanna
are now all that remain.
Blonde on Blonde (1966)

Friday, July 11, 2008

Mr. Tambourine Man


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Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man,

play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy
and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning
I'll come followin' you.
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