Idiot Wind - Take 4, Remake with organ overdub

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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
 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
 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

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Duration
08:51
Key
4
Tempo
84 BPM

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