Idiot Wind

[Verse]

Cm D G

Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press

Cm

Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out

D D/C G G/F#

but when they will I can only guess.

Em Bm Am G

They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy,

Em Bm Am G

She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me.

Bm C6

I can't help it if I'm lucky.

Cm D D/C G

People see me all the time and they just can't remember how to act

Cm D D/C G G/F#

Their minds are filled with big ideas, images and distorted facts.

Em Bm Am G G/F#

Even you, yesterday you had to ask me where it was at,

Em Bm Am G

I couldn't believe after all these years, you didn't know me any better than that

Bm C6

Sweet lady.

[Chorus]

G C G

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth,

C C/D

Blowing down the backroads headin' south.

G C G

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,

G C

You're an idiot, babe.

D D7 G C/G G C/G

It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

[Verse]

Cm D

I ran into the fortune-teller, who said

D/C G

Beware of lightning that might strike

Cm D D/C G

I haven't known peace and quiet for so long I can't remember what it's like.

Em Bm Am G

There's a lone soldier on the cross, smoke pourin' out of a boxcar door,

Em Bm

You didn't know it, you didn't think it could be done,

Am G

In the final end he won the wars

Bm C6

After losin' every battle.

Cm D D/C G

I woke up on the roadside, daydreamin' 'bout the way things sometimes are

Cm D

Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head

D/C G G/F#

And are makin' me see stars.

Em Bm Am G

You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies.

Em Bm Am G

One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes,

Bm C6

Blood on your saddle.

[Chorus]

G C G

Idiot wind, blowing through the flowers on your tomb,

C C/D

Blowing through the curtains in your room.

G C G

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,

G C

You're an idiot, babe.

D6 G C/G G C/G

It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

[Verse]

Cm D D/C G

It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart

Cm

You tamed the lion in my cage

D D/C G G/F#

But it just wasn't enough to change my heart.

Em Bm

Now everything's a little upside down

Am G

As a matter of fact the wheels have stopped,

Em Bm

What's good is bad, what's bad is good

Am G

You'll find out when you reach the top

Bm C6

You're on the bottom.

Cm D D/C G

I noticed at the ceremony, your corrupt ways had finally made you blind

Cm

I can't remember your face anymore,

D D/C G G/F#

your mouth has changed, your eyes don't look into mine.

Em Bm

The priest wore black on the seventh day

Am G

And sat stone-faced while the building burned.

Em Bm

I waited for you on the running boards,

Am G

Near the cypress trees, while the springtime turned

Bm C6

Slo-o-o-owly to autumn.

[Chorus]

G C G

Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull,

C C/D

From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol.

G C G

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,

G C

You're an idiot, babe.

D G C/G G C/G

It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

[Verse]

Cm D D/C G

I can't feel you anymore, I can't even touch the books you've read

Cm D

Every time I crawl past your door, I been wishin'

D/C G G/F#

I'd been somebody else instead.

Em Bm Am G

Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy,

Em Bm Am G

I followed you beneath the stars, haunted by your memory

Bm C6

And all your ragin' glory.

Cm D D/C G

I been double-crossed now for the very last time and now I'm finally free,

Cm

I kissed goodbye the howling beast

D D/C G G/F#

On the borderline which separated you from me.

Em Bm Am G

You'll never know the hurt I suffered nor the pain I rise above,

Em Bm Am G

And I'll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love,

Bm C6

And it makes me feel so sorry.

[Chorus]

G C G

Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coats,

C C/D

Blowing through the letters that we wrote.

G C G

Idiot wind, blowing through the dust upon our shelves,

G C

We're idiots, babe.

D D7 G C/G G C/G

It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves.