Verse
Em F# B
Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press
Em
Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out
F# F#/E B B/A#
but when they will I can only guess.
G#m D#m C#m B
They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy,
G#m D#m C#m B
She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me.
D#m E6
I can't help it if I'm lucky.
Em F# F#/E B
People see me all the time and they just can't remember how to act
Em F# F#/E B B/A#
Their minds are filled with big ideas, images and distorted facts.
G#m D#m C#m B B/A#
Even you, yesterday you had to ask me where it was at,
G#m D#m C#m B
I couldn't believe after all these years, you didn't know me any better than that
D#m E6
Sweet lady.
[Chorus]
B E B
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth,
E E/F#
Blowing down the backroads headin' south.
B E B
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
B E
You're an idiot, babe.
F# F#7 B E/B B E/B
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
[Verse]
Em F#
I ran into the fortune-teller, who said
F#/E B
Beware of lightning that might strike
Em F# F#/E B
I haven't known peace and quiet for so long I can't remember what it's like.
G#m D#m C#m B
There's a lone soldier on the cross, smoke pourin' out of a boxcar door,
G#m D#m
You didn't know it, you didn't think it could be done,
C#m B
In the final end he won the wars
D#m E6
After losin' every battle.
Em F# F#/E B
I woke up on the roadside, daydreamin' 'bout the way things sometimes are
Em F#
Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head
F#/E B B/A#
And are makin' me see stars.
G#m D#m C#m B
You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies.
G#m D#m C#m B
One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes,
D#m E6
Blood on your saddle.
[Chorus]
B E B
Idiot wind, blowing through the flowers on your tomb,
E E/F#
Blowing through the curtains in your room.
B E B
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
B E
You're an idiot, babe.
F#6 B E/B B E/B
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
[Verse]
Em F# F#/E B
It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart
Em
You tamed the lion in my cage
F# F#/E B B/A#
But it just wasn't enough to change my heart.
G#m D#m
Now everything's a little upside down
C#m B
As a matter of fact the wheels have stopped,
G#m D#m
What's good is bad, what's bad is good
C#m B
You'll find out when you reach the top
D#m E6
You're on the bottom.
Em F# F#/E B
I noticed at the ceremony, your corrupt ways had finally made you blind
Em
I can't remember your face anymore,
F# F#/E B B/A#
your mouth has changed, your eyes don't look into mine.
G#m D#m
The priest wore black on the seventh day
C#m B
And sat stone-faced while the building burned.
G#m D#m
I waited for you on the running boards,
C#m B
Near the cypress trees, while the springtime turned
D#m E6
Slo-o-o-owly to autumn.
[Chorus]
B E B
Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull,
E E/F#
From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol.
B E B
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
B E
You're an idiot, babe.
F# B E/B B E/B
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
[Verse]
Em F# F#/E B
I can't feel you anymore, I can't even touch the books you've read
Em F#
Every time I crawl past your door, I been wishin'
F#/E B B/A#
I'd been somebody else instead.
G#m D#m C#m B
Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy,
G#m D#m C#m B
I followed you beneath the stars, haunted by your memory
D#m E6
And all your ragin' glory.
Em F# F#/E B
I been double-crossed now for the very last time and now I'm finally free,
Em
I kissed goodbye the howling beast
F# F#/E B B/A#
On the borderline which separated you from me.
G#m D#m C#m B
You'll never know the hurt I suffered nor the pain I rise above,
G#m D#m C#m B
And I'll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love,
D#m E6
And it makes me feel so sorry.
[Chorus]
B E B
Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coats,
E E/F#
Blowing through the letters that we wrote.
B E B
Idiot wind, blowing through the dust upon our shelves,
B E
We're idiots, babe.
F# F#7 B E/B B E/B
It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves.
[Outro] (harp)
| Em | F# F#/E | B |
| Em | F# F#/E | B B/A# |
| G#m D#m | C#m B |
| G#m D#m | C#m B |
2/4 4/4
| D#m | E6 |
| Em | F# F#/E | B |
(fade out over last bars)
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