visions of Johanna

Visions of johanna
Bob Dylan

正如夜晚不正是耍些陰謀詭計的好時機嗎當你試圖保持沉靜內斂
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
我們困坐於此雖然我們一再極力反對

路易絲手上沾滿雨水賴著不走一再誘使你去負隅頑抗
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
對面閣樓的光線搖曳四溢

房間裡熱導管低沉得響個不停
And Louise holds a handful of rain , temptin' you to defy it
鄉村音樂台舒緩地奏響旋律

但確實沒什麼真的沒什麼需要閉嘴安靜
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
只有路易絲和她的情人扭成一團

和占據我心中的喬安娜的種種形象
In this room the heat pipes just cough
空地上女人們叩響鑰匙鏈大玩捉迷藏的遊戲

夜店女孩在火車上竊竊私語聊著那些惡作劇
The country music station plays soft
我們能聽到守夜人舉著手電筒四處敲打巡邏

他狐疑自問是他自己還是他們真的荒唐無度
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
路易絲她沒什麼大礙她只是在附近徘徊

她溫潤優雅就像一面剔透的鏡子
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
但她只是讓一切都利落明了

可喬安娜已抽身離去
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind
電力之鬼在她頭骨裡肆意咆哮

喬安娜的紛亂形象徹底取代了我的位置
In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain
現在啊迷途的小孩他總是謹小慎微

他拿他的悲劇自我吹噓他喜歡活在危機之中
And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the 'D' train
當她的名字赫然出現

他湊過來和我匆匆吻別
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
他一定有一肚子的苦水但一切都徒勞無用

只能靠在牆邊低聲嘀咕幾句而我正等在大廳
Ask himself if it's him or them that's really insane
我該作何解釋呢

事情很難才有眉目
Louise, she's all right, she's just near
喬安娜的這些形像啊支撐著我挨到天亮

博物館裡面永恆正在不斷上升擴張
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
迴聲隨後如某種拯救人心的力量

但是蒙娜麗莎啊一定還沉浸在公路藍調中
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
你能一眼瞧出她微笑的神秘表情

瞧瞧那些一開始就沒有舞伴的壁花在旁呆若木雞
That Johanna's not here
當臉上搽得像果凍般滑膩的女人紛紛打起噴嚏

只聽見那個大鬍子一聲“咿呀”驀地響起
The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face
我發現我已雙膝如木

噢珠寶和望遠鏡紛紛掛在騾子頭一起轉圈
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place
但是喬安娜的這些形象讓一切變得如此殘酷

現在小販向伯爵夫人獻媚她精神煥發地裝作喜歡他似的
Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
小販說賜我個名字吧別讓人以為我白吃白喝我會溜達出去為他日夜祈禱

但正如路易絲常說的那樣
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
你無法預見未來你能嗎伙計

當她自己為他準備就緒
And when bringing her name up
麥當娜女士仍沒準備好出來表演

我們眼睜睜看著這個空洞腐朽的牢籠
He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
她在舞台上穿的披肩曾在半空飄動

小提琴手他現在踱步走到街道上
He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all
他寫下他曾欠下的需要歸還的無數清單

搖搖晃晃就在滿載的運魚車背後
Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall
當我的良知振聾發聵湧上心頭

口琴紛紛彈奏起萬能鑰匙和密集的雨點
How can I explain?
喬安娜的這些形象現在又通通降臨在我眼前

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 must 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'

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 keys and the rain

And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain