Verse
Gm A D
Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press
Gm
Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out
A A/G D D/C#
but when they will I can only guess.
Bm F#m Em D
They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy,
Bm F#m Em D
She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me.
F#m G6
I can't help it if I'm lucky.
Gm A A/G D
People see me all the time and they just can't remember how to act
Gm A A/G D D/C#
Their minds are filled with big ideas, images and distorted facts.
Bm F#m Em D D/C#
Even you, yesterday you had to ask me where it was at,
Bm F#m Em D
I couldn't believe after all these years, you didn't know me any better than that
F#m G6
Sweet lady.
[Chorus]
D G D
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth,
G G/A
Blowing down the backroads headin' south.
D G D
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
D G
You're an idiot, babe.
A A7 D G/D D G/D
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
[Verse]
Gm A
I ran into the fortune-teller, who said
A/G D
Beware of lightning that might strike
Gm A A/G D
I haven't known peace and quiet for so long I can't remember what it's like.
Bm F#m Em D
There's a lone soldier on the cross, smoke pourin' out of a boxcar door,
Bm F#m
You didn't know it, you didn't think it could be done,
Em D
In the final end he won the wars
F#m G6
After losin' every battle.
Gm A A/G D
I woke up on the roadside, daydreamin' 'bout the way things sometimes are
Gm A
Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head
A/G D D/C#
And are makin' me see stars.
Bm F#m Em D
You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies.
Bm F#m Em D
One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes,
F#m G6
Blood on your saddle.
[Chorus]
D G D
Idiot wind, blowing through the flowers on your tomb,
G G/A
Blowing through the curtains in your room.
D G D
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
D G
You're an idiot, babe.
A6 D G/D D G/D
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
[Verse]
Gm A A/G D
It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart
Gm
You tamed the lion in my cage
A A/G D D/C#
But it just wasn't enough to change my heart.
Bm F#m
Now everything's a little upside down
Em D
As a matter of fact the wheels have stopped,
Bm F#m
What's good is bad, what's bad is good
Em D
You'll find out when you reach the top
F#m G6
You're on the bottom.
Gm A A/G D
I noticed at the ceremony, your corrupt ways had finally made you blind
Gm
I can't remember your face anymore,
A A/G D D/C#
your mouth has changed, your eyes don't look into mine.
Bm F#m
The priest wore black on the seventh day
Em D
And sat stone-faced while the building burned.
Bm F#m
I waited for you on the running boards,
Em D
Near the cypress trees, while the springtime turned
F#m G6
Slo-o-o-owly to autumn.
[Chorus]
D G D
Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull,
G G/A
From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol.
D G D
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
D G
You're an idiot, babe.
A D G/D D G/D
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
[Verse]
Gm A A/G D
I can't feel you anymore, I can't even touch the books you've read
Gm A
Every time I crawl past your door, I been wishin'
A/G D D/C#
I'd been somebody else instead.
Bm F#m Em D
Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy,
Bm F#m Em D
I followed you beneath the stars, haunted by your memory
F#m G6
And all your ragin' glory.
Gm A A/G D
I been double-crossed now for the very last time and now I'm finally free,
Gm
I kissed goodbye the howling beast
A A/G D D/C#
On the borderline which separated you from me.
Bm F#m Em D
You'll never know the hurt I suffered nor the pain I rise above,
Bm F#m Em D
And I'll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love,
F#m G6
And it makes me feel so sorry.
[Chorus]
D G D
Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coats,
G G/A
Blowing through the letters that we wrote.
D G D
Idiot wind, blowing through the dust upon our shelves,
D G
We're idiots, babe.
A A7 D G/D D G/D
It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves.
[Outro] (harp)
| Gm | A A/G | D |
| Gm | A A/G | D D/C# |
| Bm F#m | Em D |
| Bm F#m | Em D |
2/4 4/4
| F#m | G6 |
| Gm | A A/G | D |
(fade out over last bars)
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