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 D/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 D/F#
Their minds are filled with big ideas images and distorted facts
Em Bm Am G D/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 better than that
Bm C6
Sweet lady
G C G
Idiot wind blowing every time you move your mouth
C D6 D7
Blowing down the backroads headin' south
G C G
Idiot wind blowing every time you move your teeth
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
Cm D D/C
I ran into the fortune-teller who said beware of lightning that might
G
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 Am
You didn't know it you didn't think it could be done in the final end he
G
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 D/C
Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head and are makin' me see
G D/F#
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' a - round your eyes
Bm C6
Blood on your saddle
G C G
Idiot wind blowing through the flowers on your tomb
C D6
Blowing through the curtains in your room
G C G
Idiot wind blowing every time you move your teeth
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
Cm D D/C G
It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us a - part
Cm D D/C
You tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn't e - nough to change my
G D/F#
heart.
Em Bm Am G
Now everything's a little upside down as a matter of fact the wheels have
stopped,
Em Bm Am G
What's good is bad what's bad is good 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 cor - rupt ways had finally made you blind
Cm D D/C
I can't remember your face anymore your mouth has changed your eyes
G D/F#
don't look into mine
Em Bm Am
The priest wore black on the seventh day and sat stone-faced while the
G
building burned
Em Bm Am
I waited for you on the running boards near the cypress trees while the
G Bm C6
springtime turned slowly into autumn
G C G
Idiot wind blowing like a circle around my skull
C D6 D7
From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capit - ol
G C G
Idiot wind blowing every time you move your teeth
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
Cm D D/C G
I can't feel you anymore I can't even touch the books you've read
Cm D D/C
Every time I crawl past your door I been wishin' I'd been somebody else
G D/F#
instead.
Dm Bm Am G
Down the highway down the tracks down the road to ecstasy
Em Bm Am G
I followed you be - neath the stars hounded 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 D D/C
I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you
G D/F#
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
G C G
Idiot wind blowing through the buttons of our coats
C D6 D7
Blowing through the letters that we wrote
G C G
Idiot wind blowing through the dust upon our shelves
C
We're idiots babe
D D7 G C/G G C/G
It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves