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Feeling Tortured Today

and I wanted to share my favorite Bob Dylan lyrics:

"Idiot Wind"

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 even me 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 not 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 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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how to read
this its an EPIC...............

I can't read beyond 10 lines
lest i go blind
the doc says save your eyes
so I can't tell lies
must be wonderful
your poetry

loved

This is one of my favorite Bob Dylan songs. I listen to it when I feel like shit. It reminds me of my relationship with my family. Thanks for the comment.

always, Cat

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As Shirley would say thanx

loved

I love Bob Dylan as you know.

Much love
Lou

Stand tall, be proud to be who you are, give the world the finger!!!!

I know you do. It just goes to show what good taste you have and how warped you are ;)

love, Cat

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Well I am the height of good taste LOL!!!!

love lou

Stand tall, be proud to be who you are, give the world the finger!!!!

an epic for sure as Ian said...

a few things you may have overlooked

I couldn't believe after all these years you didn't know even me better than that
Sweet lady.

(change for smoother flow by swapping places of "know" and "even" with even and know)

I couldn't believe after all these years you didn't even know me better than that
Sweet lady.

raj (sublime_ocean)

I do wonder what he would think of your suggestion.

always, Cat

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You can't mess with Bob Dylan's Lyrics LOL!!!

Lou

Stand tall, be proud to be who you are, give the world the finger!!!!

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