Idiot Wind Lyrics - Blood On The Tracks - 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 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 

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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 

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth 

Blowing down the back roads 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 lightnin' that might strike" 

I haven't known peace and quiet for so long 

I can't remember what it's like 

Photos 

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 war 

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 tree 

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've been 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