Idiot Wind lyrics

Artist  : Bob Dylan 
Song : Idiot Wind
 
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.