Idiot Wind
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| Song by Bob Dylan | |||||
| Album | Blood on the Tracks | ||||
| Released | January 17, 1975 | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 7:48 | ||||
| Label | Columbia | ||||
| Writer | Bob Dylan | ||||
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"Idiot Wind" is a song by Bob Dylan. It appeared on his album Blood on the Tracks.
This song, like most on the album, is about love and the problems that come with it. Dylan attacks an unnamed woman throughout the song, though he sidetracks for several lines at a time to comment on the world in general. The chorus varies from time to time, but always includes the phrase, "You're an idiot, babe. It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe." At the end of the song, he changes it slightly and blames himself for some of the aforementioned problems in saying, "We're idiots, babe. It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves."
Working on a tip from his brother, Dylan re-recorded half the songs on Blood on the Tracks, including "Idiot Wind." The re-recorded versions were radical departures from the original recordings, and "Idiot Wind" saw a tremendous change, including the adding of a full band backing from an essentially solo acoustic recording. The sessions in which he rerecorded these songs took place after the initial pressing of Blood on the Tracks, however, and the session musicians Dylan used were not given credit for their work on the album sleeves.
A raucous live version is included as the closing track to Hard Rain.
Hootie and the Blowfish had a chart-topping hit with "Only Wanna Be With You" in 1994, which included verbatim lines from "Idiot Wind". Though the band mentioned Dylan's name in the song, he sued them and settled out of court.[citation needed]
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