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.
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