I'll Wind Blowing Lyrics - Mott The Hoople

Across the naked desert 

That housed a million hurts 

But I heard a voice call unto me 

Beware, is what it said 

You're asking all the questions 

That is dangerous to do 

For you ain't got any answers 

And your time is nearly through 

There's an ill wind blowing 

From the west unto the east 

And I see my world going 

From a beauty to a beast 

And the time is getting nearer to 1974 

There's an ill wind blowing 

And it's blowing us, blowing us 

Yes, it's blowing us off the shore 

And the fortunes fading from my face 

And I feel a thousand fears 

How many know that illness grows 

It never disappears 

And I wonder when the medicine man 

Knows that they are sane 

They qualified in genocide 

And specialize in pain 

There's an ill wind blowing 

From the west unto the east 

And I see my world going 

From a beauty to a beast 

And the time is getting nearer to 1974 

There's an ill wind blowing 

And it's blowing us, blowing us 

Yeah, it's blowing us off the shore 

There's an ill wind blowing 

From the west unto the east 

And if my redeemer lay there 

Then he's fighting with a priest 

And the time is getting nearer 

To the opening of the door 

There's an ill wind blowing 

And it's blowing us, yeah, it's blowing us 

It's blowing us off the shore