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G/F# 2-x-0-0-0(3)
C6 x-3-2-2-1-0
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Verse
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 re
member how to
act
Their minds are filled with big ideas,
images
and distorted f
acts.
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 any
better than that
Sweet
lady.
Chorus
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 s
till know how to
breathe.
Verse
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 re
member what it's
like.
There's a l
one soldier o
n 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' a
round your eyes,
Blood on your s
addle.
Chorus
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.
Verse
It
was gravity which pulled us down and
destiny which
broke us a
part
You tamed the lion in my cage
But
it just wasn't e
nough 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 co
rrupt ways had
finally made you
blind
I can't remember your face anymore,
your m
outh 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
Slo-o-o-owly to au
tumn.
Chorus
Idiot wind,
blowing like a circle around my
skull,
From the
Grand Coulee Dam to the Cap
itol.
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.
Verse
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'd been
somebody else in
stead.
Down the highway,
down the tracks,
down the road to
ecstasy,
I
followed you be
neath the stars,
haunted by your
memory
And
all your r
agin' 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.
Chorus
Idiot wind,
blowing through the buttons of our
coats,
Blowing through the letters that we
wrote.
Idiot wind,
blowing through the dust upon our s
helves,
We're
idiots,
babe.
It's a
wonder we can
even feed our
selves.
[Outro] (harp)
(f
ade o
ut
over
last bars)
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