Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind Lyrics
Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press
Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out quick, but when they will I can only guess
They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy
She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me
I can't help it if I'm lucky
People see me all the time and they just can't remember how to act
Their minds are filled with big ideas, images and distorted facts
Even you, yesterday you had to ask me where it was at
I couldn't believe after all these years, you didn't know me even better than that
Sweet lady
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth
Blowing down the back-roads heading south
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth
You're an idiot, babe
I ran into the fortune-teller, who said beware of lightning that might strike
I haven't known peace and quiet for so long I can't remember what it's like
There's a lone soldier on the cross, smoke pouring out of a boxcar door
You didn't know it, you didn't think it could be done, in the final end he won the wars
After losing every battle
I woke up on the roadside, daydreaming about the way things sometimes are
Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head and are making me see stars
You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies
One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzing around your eyes
Blood on your saddle
Idiot wind, blowing through the flowers on your tomb
Blowing through the curtains in your room
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth
You're an idiot, babe
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe
It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart
You tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn't enough to change my heart
Now everything's a little upside down, as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped
What's good is bad, what's bad is good, you'll find out when you reach the top
You're on the bottom
I noticed at the ceremony, your corrupt ways had finally made you blind
I can't remember your face anymore, your mouth has changed, your eyes
Don't look into mine
The priest wore black on the seventh day and sat stone-faced while the
Building burned
I waited for you on the running boards, near the cypress trees, while the
Springtime turned
Slowly into Autumn
Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull
From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth
You're an idiot, babe
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe
I can't feel you anymore, I can't even touch the books you've read
Every time I crawl past your door, I been wishing I was somebody else instead
Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy
I followed you beneath the stars, hounded by your memory
And all your raging glory
I been double-crossed now for the very last time and now I'm finally free
I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me
You'll never know the hurt I suffered nor the pain I rise above
And I'll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love
And it makes me feel so sorry
Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coats
Blowing through the letters that we wrote
Idiot wind, blowing through the dust upon our shelves
We're idiots, babe
It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves
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Bob Dylan Idiot Wind Comments
I am on death row and the warden gives me my last song. I select "Idiot Wind".
I kiss goodbye to the howling beast that separated you from me
Its a wonder you still know how to breath
but one of his many stunning masterpieces. just wow.
Weird ,how a women breaks it off with you ,then circles a round to say ...hey ''you were better". . You can forgive or forget her. You wont find your first love again. My life.
... made me subscribe. Thank you for sharing.
Let's rework those snares and drum fills.
I prefer the earlier version. it has more vulnerability. here he is so angry.
Idiot wind was this song written for Nancy Pelosi?
Anyone else notice the organ plays the wrong chord on "I followed you beneath the stars"?
I wait for it every time.
Aaaaeeeeedeeeeaaat wind.
I hear ya. I used to think he was singing THE idiot wind..
Great song from a great album. The emotion is so raw. A master songwriter with something to say.
This song's searing intensity pulls me in every time I hear it. One of my favorite albums of all time.
The priest wore black on the seventh day , and sat stone-faced while the building burned
I waited for you on the running boards
Near the Cypress Tree while the spring time turned ,
Slowly into autumn. 🍁🍁 Those of us who understand this album, the words, the poetry, the suffering and the pain : we just know . We know the verse I typed is magnificent prose . This entire song and this entire album is my bible.
This song still hits me deep as music should. What a mind
always fucking hated this song. ruined the album
Oh the acrimony in separation and divorce. Dylan vs Dylan and Bob Dylan never really wanted the divorce, mostly due to the children. This whole album bares the pain he suffered during the divorce, which was very real. The anger in this song, and the pain in most of the other songs on this album bares all the emotion of his divorce for the world to see. Sara Dylan wanted the divorce due to his womanizing, he just never should have womanized in front of her face where she could no longer ignore it.
The final straw was when Dylan brought a woman home with him, Malka Marom, kind of a Sara look-alike, and Sara walked in on them sitting at the breakfast table with the children. She didn't take it well. As Sara was quoted in court during the divorce, this was when Dylan also struck her in the face, injured her jaw and told her to leave the house. That was when she'd had enough. And all through the divorce Dylan was having an affair with another woman, Faridi McFree, their children's art instructor. Genius, which he certainly is, make their own rules. And Dylan loved the women. I think if I was Sara and married to Dylan, I still would have turned a blind eye and kept him as my own, flaws and all.
Sara now lives in Beverly Hills, the Holmby Hills section of Westwood, with their youngest daughter Anna who is unmarried and takes care of her mother. The other children live close to her while Dylan also lives nearby in Malibu. Dylan dearly loves his children and now his grandchildren. He performs free acoustic mini-concerts at the grandchildren's school classrooms and has installed at his home everything that children love, a trampoline, swimming pool, horse stable, and a basketball court. BTW, I also live in L.A.
This song is about Dylans former self image as a 'folk' singer, and a polk at A.J. Webberman, who in the 70's made a mockery of him by wearing his hair and dark glasses like him and analysing his earlier songs to death. But the last straw was when Webberman was rummaging through Dylan's trash at his house and found a hyperdermic needle, and said....aha!!! See there he's an addict and he sings his praises to heroine!!!!
I woke upon a road side, day dreamin' 'bout the way things sometimes aaaaaare.......Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head makin' me see staaaaaaars.
eeehaydayahat? iiiiiiddayot?
Favorite Dylan cd favorite song!!!!💕💕💕🎵🎵🎵
It ain't me Bob
Bob gets brainwashed into believing the Christian crapola, yet he has the nerve to call everyone else 'idiots'. Maybe so, but he's the King of Fools and he should look to himself first before judging other people.
sweeeet lady every time you open your mouth.....
This man is amazingly honest in his writing and singing....
What’s even more amazing is his ability to remember every word and sing them with such feeling.
Idiocy seems to be the norm in our current times.
Someone’s got it in for me. Best opening line ever.
Idiot Wind...
Sorry I missed Bobby D the Sir dr great in Chicago this weekend. He writes and plays better then me. Idiot man
Bob Dylan our Nation's Poet to the World
After election 2019 , the Canadian National Anthem.
it's a wonder that u still know how to breath
I love this song
Been waiting on this song being posted to YouTube thank you ❤🇬🇧
Hearing this album the first time as a fanciful and romantic 17 year old and coming back to it as a 34 year old battle-weary and broken-hearted drifter is really something else, I must say. 17 year old me thought "Idiot Wind" was one of the weaker tracks but now it's one of my favorites on this album.
A healing song for me because it matches my anger and despair for the relationships I walked away from which I thought wold last a lifetime but needed to end.
"Smoke pourin' out of a boxcar door" Brilliant phrasing.
My God, this is horrible. All-around horrible. I love it!
Thanks 😊 😊😘 ❤️ n I love you... too ...WOW... Dylan
Knew MOLLY...B4...
IT was MOLLY 😁😂😆💀😆😭😭😁😂.. ! !
his angriest?
Thanks 😊 😊😘 ❤️ n I love you too...
No Shit...Ud.. B... Pissed 2... ! !
Outside of Gerde's, a stack of records branded genius I would always meet again
Every time I hear this I think of Donald Trump.
Thnx......n....I Love You Too<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>BABY GIRL<<<<<<< n I Love>>> >>>my BABY GIRL<<<<<<<<<>>>>>WATCH OUT<<<<<<>>>>>>DEVIL<<<< <<<>>>>>>>>Gonna Get YOU<<<<<>>>>> ! !
Of course it has nothing to do with Sarah
I believe Dylan had Nixon in mind when he titled this song. One of the first albums I purchased when I was discharged from the service in May of '73. I think of Trump as The "Idiot Wind" nowadays.
Thanks 😊 😊😘 ❤️ n I love you too... No
Shit Trump's an... IDIOT... most... Politicians...ARE... ! !
Ee-yaddd-iot wind.....
One of the greatest Albums with one of the most uninspired covers. Always hated the cover of this Album.
I don't hate the cover, but you do have a point.
“....and all the pain I rise above...”
I loved Bob as a tiny little kid(thankyou parents) nobody will ever come close to how he makes me feel.
Yeah..there are only two true legends. Bob and Branimir Johnny Štulić. If you were from Balkan I guess you would agree. :-)
I love how it just jumps into the verse immediately
Old man yells at wind 😂😂😂 Love it
Uh...okay...
In the '60s he thought the answer was blowing in the wind but by the '70s he learned the wind was created by imbeciles flapping their gums.
absolutely in love with this song and album right now. i tried listening to blood on the tracks in my late teens but couldn't get into it. now, though, it's flooring me
You have to have had your heart broke a few times to get this album.
Not "My crush won't notice me in study hall" broke.
I'm talking real adult strength broke.
There is a collection of demos out there called "Blood on the Tapes".
Check it out if you get a chance.
I think I like it better than the official version.
The number one favourite of my favourites 😃
" Graze is as Good as a Miss"
Andrew Jackson after a dangerous river costing just missing the falls buck Nacked on a hurried home made small raft, two saddles & dryish clothes with Indian War Party Hot on his trail ... with his panicked buddy in the bushes holding the two horses they quickly slapped saddles on and rode like Hell into the gaint wooden doors of the Fort as Sounds of Indains hooped & hollered faded away ...
Here's to hoping Mr. Dylan never grants me immortality with a verbal eviscerating... Ouch.
For when u had a bad day and the priest is high
Arguably, Dylan's greatest song in my book. "You're an idiot, babe. It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe!". A perfect rejoinder for Trump and all his racist/misogynist groupies!!!!
Just wish we could hear this on the radio...
You'll never know the hurt I suffered
Nor the pain I rise above
And I'll never know the same about you
Your holiness or your kind of love
And it makes me feel so sorry...
Boom !
I'm frankly amazed that the play that performs in my mind when I listen to this song after several years of not, is not only different, but SO different, that I "see" an entirely different story playing out in my mind's eye.
I think that he's (a little!) 'upset' with her!!! (Really pissed off even!)
I loved Tangled UP In Blue.
The organ on this song is absolutely haunting. Dylan won’t admit it but most people think this song is either about his first wife or his agent. Either way, man is he pissed.
sound a little bitter there, bobby
Who writes like this
Thanks 😊 😊😘 ❤️ n I love you too...
Dylan aka... Zimmerman...
No Shit OKAY...
Cupcakes... Peace,
Love n... FOREVER ❣️💖❣️💖❤️ n I love you too baby girl...
WORLD... FOREVER ❣️💖❣️💖 and... EVER... ! !
Jesus this is a great Song.
I hate women and they hate me. I can't help it if I'm lucky!
You can feel the raw emotion in every word of this song. Easily one of Dylan’s most personal tunes.
Dylan's diss tracks are nothing short of legendary. "It's a wonder you still know how to breathe" Absolutely fantastic. This and positively 4th street are just so visceral and raw. Venom. It's beautiful. Roll on Lilly, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts. I adore this album.
AOC's theme tune.
Nothing beats a Dylan song when he’s spitting his venom. Absolutely love it .
and he's really the only one that can release vitriol like he does man, don't piss him off!!!
Have you heard the slower, more laid back? It's almost too beautiful for the lyrics. Almost. I love the contrast. Only Dylan can pull it off.
Nothing sums up current UK/US shit politics better.
You put it so mildly. I adore. Thank you. Thank you Idiot Wind.
Then you get to the last verse and he shares the harshest venom with himself .
That's what makes it for me.
This album isn't Bob screaming "You bitch!" for 45 minutes.
He is totally self aware, pulls no punches even when he is the target.
all your raging glory...
Fucking finally this is on youtube
Uno de los mejores álbumes de la historia del Rock.....el es el gurú ☮️
I think I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, since I was 11 years old, now 63 this as got to be one of the best hard hitting songs ever,then you got the bootleg version so slow and beautiful love the both equally wow what a genius
True song. Best ever written
Make American Music Great Again
Knowing God and yourself isn't rocket science!!! Pretty simple people. GOD CREATES ALL!! But you obviously didn't get that the last time- did you? And you had 2,000+ years to think about it. Wow people. Wow. Someone sure didn't have a lot going on upstairs though while they were creating nuclear warheads!!!
And yes I admit I'm not a genius. I had to study really hard to graduate from college with a B.S. in biological science magna cum laude and in the top 5% of my class, especially after I dropped out of high school when I was 16. I hated high school and biology class was no exception- and all I remember was trying to skip class after I once lit a cigarette and took a puff in the back of the class. I think I was trying to impress a boy in the class. The biology teacher couldn't really catch me with the lit cigarette because I put it out quick, but he knew that I had did it and hated me after that.
Verily its the breath that God goes for when things go really wrong. I don't start punching people, I start hyperventilating. When I hyperventilated at Mexico City's airport it only took God 2 seconds to stop hyperventilating. If it were just a biological process or a chemical reaction, I do think it would take more time to make a come back to normal breathing. Its all rigged. By the master of puppets. Frodo also looks like he his hyperventilating when he needed help from others badly and got it from the elves. Another parallel track or mirror image that God purposefully created, not random nor just chance.
How can a shadow or a ghost be an idiot? I don't even really exist, nor does any vestige of physical reality like brains.
How can he sing so beautifully with such a terrible voice !!!
Upvote if Hootie & The Blowfish brought you here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuVmjv22Nqc
I cant help it if I'm lucky
they say I shot a man named gray,and took his wife to Italy, she inherited a million bucks I cant help it if I'm lucky u gotta luv that
A bit more than a million wasn't that you inherited from my estates Bob? But you couldn't count either, is this correct?
Eastern WA Nature Get thee to a nunnery post haste! For soothe it is the fate of great men to be beset by fools!
I gave him my heart but he still wanted to sell my soul!!
I never slag my old girlfriends. If you say she's an idiot, what does that then make you? You fucked her. So you fucked an idiot. That makes you a fool. And then you announce it? Not good. Still, a good song in ways. Kinda gossipy, melodrarmatic, good metre and stuff.
This man wrote my life way before I was even born
Or wrote what my mind was gonna be like...profound
I know what you mean...
Is this mind controll?
I think I like this more than the NYC session version, more passionate vocal performance.
it's a wonder we can even feed ourselves (our own worst enemy sometimes) love THIS ALBUM
Angry Dylan = Best Dylan
AMEN, another example.......Hurricane
Deities can be wrathful and angry as well as giving and merciful- I think you forget who I am like you forget who you are. Often.
The Bondage Queen Mental jewelry is easy to acquire, harder to discard beside the dead Buddha....
Please Upload song Mississippi
As guns are, if you shoot yourself with this song its not so good, but if you shoot others with it- it becomes far more fun. I always worry about those double sided dildos personally and try to stay away from them. Goes both ways!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yCQraOX4Bw