| Lyrics: | by 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 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 me better than that
Sweet lady.
Idiot wind, blowing
every time you move your mouth,
Blowing down the backroads headin' 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 quiet for so long I can't remember what it's
like.
There's a lone soldier on the cross, smoke pourin' 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 losin' every
battle.
I woke up on the roadside, daydreamin' 'bout the way things sometimes
are
Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head and are makin' 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 buzzin' 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 the Capitol.
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 can't feel you anymore, I can't even touch the books you've read
Every
time I crawl past your door, I been wishin' 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 your ragin' 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 nor the pain I rise 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 |
