[ti:Idiot Wind]
[ar:Bob Dylan]
[al:Blood On The Tracks]

[00:00.00]Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press
[00:09.78]Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out but when they will I can only guess.
[00:18.98]They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy,
[00:25.20]She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me.
[00:31.28]I can't help it if I'm lucky.
[00:36.44]People see me all the time and they just can't remember how to act
[00:45.34]Their minds are filled with big ideas, images and distorted facts.
[00:54.61]Even you, yesterday you had to ask me where it was at,
[01:00.58]I couldn't believe after all these years, you didn't know me better than that
[01:07.24]Sweet lady.
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[01:11.36]Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth,
[01:20.51]Blowing down the backroads headin' south.
[01:26.72]Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
[01:35.61]You're an idiot, babe. It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
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[01:44.50]Idiot Wind
[01:46.00]Bob Dylan
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[01:48.36]I ran into the fortune-teller, who said beware of lightning that might strike
[01:57.46]I haven't known peace and quiet for so long I can't remember what it's like.
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[02:06.10]There's a lone soldier on the cross, smoke pourin' out of a boxcar door,
[02:12.43]You didn't know it, you didn't think it could be done, in the final end he won the wars
[02:18.12]After losin' every battle.
[02:23.18]I woke up on the roadside, daydreamin' 'bout the way things sometimes are
[02:32.25]Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head and are makin' me see stars.
[02:41.27]You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies.
[02:47.51]One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes,
[02:53.44]Blood on your saddle.
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[02:58.12]Idiot wind, blowing through the flowers on your tomb,
[03:07.11]Blowing through the curtains in your room.
[03:13.03]Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
[03:22.15]You're an idiot, babe.It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
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[03:34.46]It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart
[03:43.78]You tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn't enough to change my heart.
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[03:52.58]Now everything's a little upside down, as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped,
[03:58.61]What's good is bad, what's bad is good, you'll find out when you reach the top
[04:04.78]You're on the bottom.
[04:09.52]I noticed at the ceremony, your corrupt ways had finally made you blind
[04:18.71]I can't remember your face anymore, your mouth has changed, your eyes don't look into mine.
[04:27.60]burned.
[04:33.62]I waited for you on the running boards, near the cypress trees, while the springtime turned
[04:39.74]Slowly into autumn.
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[04:44.26]Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull,
[04:53.18]From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol.
[04:59.66]Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
[05:08.50]You're an idiot, babe. It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
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[05:21.27]I can't feel you anymore, I can't even touch the books you've read
[05:30.37]Every time I crawl past your door, I been wishin' I was somebody else instead.
[05:39.41]Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy,
[05:45.29]I followed you beneath the stars, hounded by your memory
[05:51.12]And all your ragin' glory.
[05:56.07]I been double-crossed now for the very last time and now I'm finally free,
[06:04.75]I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me.
[06:13.93]You'll never know the hurt I suffered nor the pain I rise above,
[06:19.86]And I'll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love,
[06:25.90]And it makes me feel so sorry.
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[06:30.59]Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coats,
[06:39.73]Blowing through the letters that we wrote.
[06:45.79]Idiot wind, blowing through the dust upon our shelves,
[06:54.80]We're idiots, babe. It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves.
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