You're an idiot, babe
What's good is bad, what's bad is good
Down the road to ecstasy
"Beware of lightnin' that might strike”
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe
Your holiness or your kind of love
Down the highway, down the tracks
You'll find out when you reach the top
And it makes me feel so sorry
You'll never know the hurt I suffered
And all your ragin' glory
While the springtime turned, slowly into autumn
Blood on your saddle
I been double-crossed now
Blowing through the letters that we wrote
Idiot wind, blowing through the dust upon our shelves
And sat stone-faced while the building burned
I couldn't believe after all these years
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth
I can't help it if I'm lucky
I waited for you on the running boards
You didn't know me, any better than that
We're idiots, babe
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth
They say I shot a man named Gray
In the final end he won the war
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth
I can't remember what it's like
I kissed goodbye the howling beast
Sweet lady
I haven't known peace and quiet for so long
And cover up the truth with lies
As a matter of fact the wheels have stopped
You're an idiot babe
I can't remember your face anymore
And they just can't remember how to act
I followed you beneath the stars
Their minds are filled with big ideas
Hounded by your memory
It was gravity which pulled us down
Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coats
You hurt the ones that I love best
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth
Shoot through my head and are makin' me see stars
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe
You had to ask me where it was at
Nor the pain I rise above
For the very last time and now I'm finally free
Your mouth has changed, your eyes don't look into mine
Your corrupt ways had finally made you blind
You're on the bottom
I can't feel you anymore
On the borderline which separated you from me
From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol
But it just wasn't enough to change my heart
The priest wore black on the seventh day
Near the cypress tree
You didn't know it, you didn't think it could be done
She inherited a million bucks
Blowing down the back roads headin' south
Every time I crawl past your door
After losin' every battle
And destiny which broke us apart
And when she died it came to me
Daydreamin' 'bout the way things sometimes are
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe
Blowing through the curtains in your room
Now everything's a little upside down
People see me all the time
You tamed the lion in my cage
Idiot wind, blowing through the flowers on your tomb
Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull
And took his wife to Italy
Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out quick
Visions of your chestnut mare
I been wishin' I've been somebody else instead
But when they will I can only guess
One day you'll be in the ditch
Images and distorted facts
Even you, yesterday
I can't even touch the books you've read
There's a lone soldier on the cross
I woke up on the roadside
I noticed at the ceremony
And I'll never know the same about you
You're an idiot babe
I ran into the fortune-teller, who said
Smoke pourin' out of a boxcar door
Flies buzzin' around your eyes
