Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press
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Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out quick but when they will I can only guess
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They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy
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She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me
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I can't help it if I'm lucky.
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People see me all the time and they just can't remember how to act
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Their minds are filled with big ideas, images and distorted facts
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Even you yesterday you had to ask me where it was at
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I couldn't believe after all these years you didn't know even me better than that
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Sweet lady.
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Idiot wind blowing every time your move your mouth
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Blowing down the backroads heading south
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Idiot wind blowing every time you move your teeth
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You're an idiot babe
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It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe
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I ran into the fortune-teller who said beware of lightning that might strike
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I haven't known peace and quit for so long I can't remember what it's like
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There's a lone soldier on the cross smoke pouring out of a boxcar door
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You didn't know it you didn't think it could be done in the final end he won the wars
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After losing every battle.
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I woke up on the roadside daydreaming about the way things sometimes are
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Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head and are making me see stars
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You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies
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One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzing around your eyes
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Blood on your saddle.
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Idiot wind blowing through the flowers on your tomb
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Blowing through the curtains in your room
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Idiot wind blowing every time you move your teeth
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You're an idiot babe
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It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
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It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart
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You tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn't enough to change my heart
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Now everything's a little upside down, as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped
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What's good is bad what's bad is good you'll find out when you reach the top
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You're on the bottom.I noticed at the ceremony, your corrupt ways had finally made you blind
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I can't remember your face anymore, your mouth has changed your eyes don't look
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into mine
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The priest wore black on the seventh day and sat stone faced while the
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building burned
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I waited for you on the running boards, near the cypress trees while the
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springtime turned
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Slowly into autumn.
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Idiot wind blowing like a circle around my skull
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From the Grand Coulee Dam to Capitol
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Idiot wind blowing every time you move you teeth
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You're an idiot babe.
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It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
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I can't feel you anymore, I can't even touch the books you've read
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Every time I crawl past your door, I been wishing I was somebody else instead
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Down the highway down the tracks down the road to ecstasy
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I followed you beneath the stars hounded by your memory
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And all you raging glory.
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I been double-crossed now for the very last time and now I'm finally free
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I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me
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You'll never know the hurt I suffered not the pain I raise above
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And I'll never know the same about you your holiness or your kind of love
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And it makes me feel so sorry.
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Idiot wind blowing through the buttons of our coats
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Blowing through the letters that we wrote
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Idiot wind blowing through the dust upon our shelves
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We're idiots babe
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It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves.
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Idiot Wind
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Bob Dylan |