Idiot Wind

Bob Dylan

1. 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 - when they will I can only 
   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.

R: 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.

2. 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.
   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.

R: 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.
   
3. 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.

R: 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.
   
4. 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.

R: 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.