Bob Dylan Lyrics

Album: BLOOD ON THE TRACKS

Idiot Wind Lyrics

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.