Richard Hardbattle
Stunt Coordinator
- Joined
- Jun 5, 2001
- Messages
- 146
Pretty much all of Blood On The Tracks by Bob Dylan, but if I have to name a couple of key one:
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.
If You See Her Say Hello
If you see her say hello she might be in Tangier
She left here last early spring is living there I hear
Say for me that I'm all right though things get kind of slow
She might think that I've forgotten her don't tell her it isn't
so.
We had a falling-out like lovers often will
And to think of how she left that night it still brings me a
chill
And though our separation it pierced me to the heart
She still lives inside of me we've never been apart.
If you get close to her kiss her once for me
I always have respected her for doing what she did and getting
free
Oh whatever makes her happy I won't stay in the way
Though the bitter taste still lingers on from the night I tried
to make her stay
I see a lot of people as I make the rounds
And I hear her name here and there as I go from town to town
And I've never gotten used to it I've just learned to turn it
off
Either I'm too sensitive or else I'm getting soft.
Sundown yellow moon I replay the past
I know every scene by heart they all went by so fast
If she's passing back this way I'm not that hard to find
Tell her she can look me up if she's got the time.
In fact - the whole album.
Also try Bruce Springsteen's Tunnel Of Love album, which I've always thought of as the little brother of Blood On The Tracks....
Either way, both awesome.
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.
If You See Her Say Hello
If you see her say hello she might be in Tangier
She left here last early spring is living there I hear
Say for me that I'm all right though things get kind of slow
She might think that I've forgotten her don't tell her it isn't
so.
We had a falling-out like lovers often will
And to think of how she left that night it still brings me a
chill
And though our separation it pierced me to the heart
She still lives inside of me we've never been apart.
If you get close to her kiss her once for me
I always have respected her for doing what she did and getting
free
Oh whatever makes her happy I won't stay in the way
Though the bitter taste still lingers on from the night I tried
to make her stay
I see a lot of people as I make the rounds
And I hear her name here and there as I go from town to town
And I've never gotten used to it I've just learned to turn it
off
Either I'm too sensitive or else I'm getting soft.
Sundown yellow moon I replay the past
I know every scene by heart they all went by so fast
If she's passing back this way I'm not that hard to find
Tell her she can look me up if she's got the time.
In fact - the whole album.
Also try Bruce Springsteen's Tunnel Of Love album, which I've always thought of as the little brother of Blood On The Tracks....
Either way, both awesome.
