Idiot Wind

Idiot Wind - Bob Dylan

Someone's got it in for me

They're planting stories in the press

Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out quick

But when they will I can only guess

They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife

To Italy

She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came

To me

I can't help it if I'm lucky

People see me all the time and

They just can't remember how to act

Their minds are filled with big ideas images and distorted facts

Even you yesterday you had to ask me where it was at

I couldn't believe after all these years

You didn't know even me better than that

Sweet lady

Idiot wind blowing every time your move your mouth

Blowing down the backroads heading south

Idiot wind blowing every time you move your teeth

You're an idiot babe

It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe

I ran into the fortune-teller who said beware of lightning

That might strike

I haven't known peace and quit for so long

I can't remember what it's like

There's a lone soldier on the cross smoke pouring out of a boxcar

Door

You didn't know it you didn't think it could be done

In the final end he won the wars

After losing every battle

I woke up on the roadside daydreaming about the way things sometimes

Are

Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head and are making

Me see stars

You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the

Truth with lies

One day you'll be in the ditch flies buzzing around your eyes

Blood on your saddle

Idiot wind blowing through the flowers on your tomb

Blowing through the curtains in your room

Idiot wind blowing every time you move your teeth

You're an idiot babe

It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe

It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke

Us apart

You tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn't enough

To change my heart

Now everything's a little upside down as a matter of fact

The wheels have stopped

What's good is bad what's bad is good

You'll find out when you reach the top

You're on the bottom

I noticed at the ceremony your corrupt ways had finally made

You blind

I can't remember your face anymore

Your mouth has changed your eyes don't look

Into mine

The priest wore black on the seventh day and sat stone faced

While the building burned

I waited for you on the running boards near the cypress trees

While the springtime turned

Slowly into autumn

Idiot wind blowing like a circle around my skull

From the Grand Coulee Dam to Capitol

Idiot wind blowing every time you move you teeth

You're an idiot babe

It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe

I can't feel you anymore

I can't even touch the books you've read

Every time I crawl past your door

I been wishing I was somebody else instead

Down the highway down the tracks down the road to ecstasy

I followed you beneath the stars hounded by your memory

And all you raging glory

I been double-crossed now for the very last time and now

I'm finally free

I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline

Which separated you from me

You'll never know the hurt I suffered not the pain I raise

Above

And I'll never know the same about you your holiness

Or your kind of love

And it makes me feel so sorry

Idiot wind blowing through the buttons of our coats

Blowing through the letters that we wrote

Idiot wind blowing through the dust upon our shelves

We're idiots babe

It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves