BOB DYLAN - Idiot Wind lyrics

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Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press<br>Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out but when they will I can only guess.<br>They say I shot a man named gray and took his wife to italy,<br>She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me.<br>I can't help it if I'm lucky.<br><br>People see me all the time and they just can't remember how to act<br>Their minds are filled with big ideas, images and distorted facts.<br>Even you, yesterday you had to ask me where it was at,<br>I couldn't believe after all these years, you didn't know me better than that<br>Sweet lady.<br><br>Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth,<br>Blowing down the backroads headin' south.<br>Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,<br>You're an idiot, babe.<br>It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.<br><br>I ran into the fortune-teller, who said beware of lightning that might strike<br>I haven't known peace and quiet for so long I can't remember what it's like.<br>There's a lone soldier on the cross, smoke pourin' out of a boxcar door,<br>You didn't know it, you didn't think it could be done, in the final end he won the wars<br>After losin' every battle.<br><br>I woke up on the roadside, daydreamin' 'bout the way things sometimes are<br>Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head and are makin' me see stars.<br>You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies.<br>One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes,<br>Blood on your saddle.<br><br>Idiot wind, blowing through the flowers on your tomb,<br>Blowing through the curtains in your room.<br>Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,<br>You're an idiot, babe.<br>It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.<br><br>It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart<br>You tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn't enough to change my heart.<br>Now everything's a little upside down, as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped,<br>What's good is bad, what's bad is good, you'll find out when you reach the top<br>You're on the bottom.<br><br>I noticed at the ceremony, your corrupt ways had finally made you blind<br>I can't remember your face anymore, your mouth has changed, your eyes<br>Don't look into mine.<br>The priest wore black on the seventh day and sat stone-faced while the building<br>Burned.<br>I waited for you on the running boards, near the cypress trees, while the springtime<br>Turned slowly into autumn.<br><br>Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull,<br>From the grand coulee dam to the capitol.<br>Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,<br>You're an idiot, babe.<br>It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.<br><br>I can't feel you anymore, I can't even touch the books you've read<br>Every time I crawl past your door, I been wishin' I was somebody else instead.<br>Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy,<br>I followed you beneath the stars, hounded by your memory<br>And all your ragin' glory.<br><br>I been double-crossed now for the very last time and now I'm finally free,<br>I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me.<br>You'll never know the hurt I suffered nor the pain I rise above,<br>And I'll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love,<br>And it makes me feel so sorry.<br><br>Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coats,<br>Blowing through the letters that we wrote.<br>Idiot wind, blowing through the dust upon our shelves,<br>We're idiots, babe.<br>It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves.