G/F# 2-x-0-0-0(3)
C6 x-3-2-2-1-0
C/D x-x-0-0-1-0
C/G 3-x-2-0-1-0
[Verse]
CmDG
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
DD/CGG/F#
but when they will I can only guess.
EmBmAmG
They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy,
EmBmAmG
She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me.
BmC6
I can't help it if I'm lucky.
CmDD/CG
People see me all the time and they just can't remember how to act
CmDD/CGG/F#
Their minds are filled with big ideas, images and distorted facts.
EmBmAmGG/F#
Even you, yesterday you had to ask me where it was at,
EmBmAmG
I couldn't believe after all these years, you didn't know me any better than that
BmC6
Sweet lady.
[Chorus]
GCG
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth,
CC/D
Blowing down the backroads headin' south.
GCG
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
GC
You're an idiot, babe.
DD7GC/GGC/G
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
[Verse]
CmD
I ran into the fortune-teller, who said
D/CG
Beware of lightning that might strike
CmDD/CG
I haven't known peace and quiet for so long I can't remember what it's like.
EmBmAmG
There's a lone soldier on the cross, smoke pourin' out of a boxcar door,
EmBm
You didn't know it, you didn't think it could be done,
AmG
In the final end he won the wars
BmC6
After losin' every battle.
CmDD/CG
I woke up on the roadside, daydreamin' 'bout the way things sometimes are
CmD
Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head
D/CGG/F#
And are makin' me see stars.
EmBmAmG
You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies.
EmBmAmG
One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes,
BmC6
Blood on your saddle.
[Chorus]
GCG
Idiot wind, blowing through the flowers on your tomb,
CC/D
Blowing through the curtains in your room.
GCG
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
GC
You're an idiot, babe.
D6GC/GGC/G
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
[Verse]
CmDD/CG
It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart
Cm
You tamed the lion in my cage
DD/CGG/F#
But it just wasn't enough to change my heart.
EmBm
Now everything's a little upside down
AmG
As a matter of fact the wheels have stopped,
EmBm
What's good is bad, what's bad is good
AmG
You'll find out when you reach the top
BmC6
You're on the bottom.
CmDD/CG
I noticed at the ceremony, your corrupt ways had finally made you blind
Cm
I can't remember your face anymore,
DD/CGG/F#
your mouth has changed, your eyes don't look into mine.
EmBm
The priest wore black on the seventh day
AmG
And sat stone-faced while the building burned.
EmBm
I waited for you on the running boards,
AmG
Near the cypress trees, while the springtime turned
BmC6
Slo-o-o-owly to autumn.
[Chorus]
GCG
Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull,
CC/D
From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol.
GCG
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
GC
You're an idiot, babe.
DGC/GGC/G
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
[Verse]
CmDD/CG
I can't feel you anymore, I can't even touch the books you've read
CmD
Every time I crawl past your door, I been wishin'
D/CGG/F#
I'd been somebody else instead.
EmBmAmG
Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy,
EmBmAmG
I followed you beneath the stars, haunted by your memory
BmC6
And all your ragin' glory.
CmDD/CG
I been double-crossed now for the very last time and now I'm finally free,
Cm
I kissed goodbye the howling beast
DD/CGG/F#
On the borderline which separated you from me.
EmBmAmG
You'll never know the hurt I suffered nor the pain I rise above,
EmBmAmG
And I'll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love,
BmC6
And it makes me feel so sorry.
[Chorus]
GCG
Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coats,
CC/D
Blowing through the letters that we wrote.
GCG
Idiot wind, blowing through the dust upon our shelves,
GC
We're idiots, babe.
DD7GC/GGC/G
It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves.
[Outro] (harp)
| Cm | DD/C | G |
| Cm | DD/C | GG/F# |
| EmBm | AmG |
| EmBm | AmG |
2/4 4/4
| Bm | C6 |
| Cm | DD/C | G |
(fade out over last bars)