Verse
Bm C# F#
Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press
Bm
Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out
C# C#/B F# F#/F
but when they will I can only guess.
D#m A#m G#m F#
They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy,
D#m A#m G#m F#
She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me.
A#m B6
I can't help it if I'm lucky.
Bm C# C#/B F#
People see me all the time and they just can't remember how to act
Bm C# C#/B F# F#/F
Their minds are filled with big ideas, images and distorted facts.
D#m A#m G#m F# F#/F
Even you, yesterday you had to ask me where it was at,
D#m A#m G#m F#
I couldn't believe after all these years, you didn't know me any better than that
A#m B6
Sweet lady.
[Chorus]
F# B F#
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth,
B B/C#
Blowing down the backroads headin' south.
F# B F#
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
F# B
You're an idiot, babe.
C# C#7 F# B/F# F# B/F#
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
[Verse]
Bm C#
I ran into the fortune-teller, who said
C#/B F#
Beware of lightning that might strike
Bm C# C#/B F#
I haven't known peace and quiet for so long I can't remember what it's like.
D#m A#m G#m F#
There's a lone soldier on the cross, smoke pourin' out of a boxcar door,
D#m A#m
You didn't know it, you didn't think it could be done,
G#m F#
In the final end he won the wars
A#m B6
After losin' every battle.
Bm C# C#/B F#
I woke up on the roadside, daydreamin' 'bout the way things sometimes are
Bm C#
Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head
C#/B F# F#/F
And are makin' me see stars.
D#m A#m G#m F#
You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies.
D#m A#m G#m F#
One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes,
A#m B6
Blood on your saddle.
[Chorus]
F# B F#
Idiot wind, blowing through the flowers on your tomb,
B B/C#
Blowing through the curtains in your room.
F# B F#
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
F# B
You're an idiot, babe.
C#6 F# B/F# F# B/F#
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
[Verse]
Bm C# C#/B F#
It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart
Bm
You tamed the lion in my cage
C# C#/B F# F#/F
But it just wasn't enough to change my heart.
D#m A#m
Now everything's a little upside down
G#m F#
As a matter of fact the wheels have stopped,
D#m A#m
What's good is bad, what's bad is good
G#m F#
You'll find out when you reach the top
A#m B6
You're on the bottom.
Bm C# C#/B F#
I noticed at the ceremony, your corrupt ways had finally made you blind
Bm
I can't remember your face anymore,
C# C#/B F# F#/F
your mouth has changed, your eyes don't look into mine.
D#m A#m
The priest wore black on the seventh day
G#m F#
And sat stone-faced while the building burned.
D#m A#m
I waited for you on the running boards,
G#m F#
Near the cypress trees, while the springtime turned
A#m B6
Slo-o-o-owly to autumn.
[Chorus]
F# B F#
Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull,
B B/C#
From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol.
F# B F#
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
F# B
You're an idiot, babe.
C# F# B/F# F# B/F#
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
[Verse]
Bm C# C#/B F#
I can't feel you anymore, I can't even touch the books you've read
Bm C#
Every time I crawl past your door, I been wishin'
C#/B F# F#/F
I'd been somebody else instead.
D#m A#m G#m F#
Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy,
D#m A#m G#m F#
I followed you beneath the stars, haunted by your memory
A#m B6
And all your ragin' glory.
Bm C# C#/B F#
I been double-crossed now for the very last time and now I'm finally free,
Bm
I kissed goodbye the howling beast
C# C#/B F# F#/F
On the borderline which separated you from me.
D#m A#m G#m F#
You'll never know the hurt I suffered nor the pain I rise above,
D#m A#m G#m F#
And I'll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love,
A#m B6
And it makes me feel so sorry.
[Chorus]
F# B F#
Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coats,
B B/C#
Blowing through the letters that we wrote.
F# B F#
Idiot wind, blowing through the dust upon our shelves,
F# B
We're idiots, babe.
C# C#7 F# B/F# F# B/F#
It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves.
[Outro] (harp)
| Bm | C# C#/B | F# |
| Bm | C# C#/B | F# F#/F |
| D#m A#m | G#m F# |
| D#m A#m | G#m F# |
2/4 4/4
| A#m | B6 |
| Bm | C# C#/B | F# |
(fade out over last bars)