Idiot Wind - Mary Lee's Corvette

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 any better than that

Sweet lady

Idiot wind blowing every time

Your move your mouth

Blowing down the backroads heading south

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 ran into the fortune teller

Who said beware of lightning that might strike

I haven't known peace and quit 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 Capitol

Idiot wind blowing every time you move you 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 you 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 or the pain I raise above

And I'll never know the same about

You your holiness or your kind of love

And it makes me 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

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