Black Throated Wind - Grateful Dead

Bringing me down

I’m running aground

Blind in the light of the interstate cars

Passing me by

The buses and semis

Plunging like stones from a slingshot on Mars

But I’m here by the road

Bound to the load

I picked up in ten thousand cafes and bars

Alone with the rush of the drivers who won’t pick me up

The highway, the moon, the clouds, and the stars

The black-throated wind keeps on pouring in

With its words of a life where nothing is new

Ah, Mother American Night, I’m lost from the light

Oh, I’m drowning in you

I left St. Louis, City of Blues

In the midst of a storm I’d rather forget

I tried to pretend it came to an end

'Cause you weren’t the woman I once thought I’d met

But I can’t deny, oh, times have gone by

I never had doubts or thoughts of regret

And I was a man when all this began

Who wouldn’t think twice about being there yet

Black-throated wind whisper mix in

It’s speaking of life that passes like dew

Forced me to see you’ve done better by me

Done better by me than I’ve done by you

What’s to be found, racing around

You carry your pain wherever you go

I’m full of the blues, trying to lose

You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t want to know

So I give you my eyes, and all of their lies

Please help them to learn as well as to see

Capture a glance, oh, and make it a dance

Of looking at you looking at me

Black-throated wind keeps on pouring in

With its words of a lie that could almost be true

Ah, Mother American Night, here comes the light

Turn around, that’s what I’m going to do

Oh, I’m going back home, that’s what I’m going to do

Oh, I’ll turn around, that’s what I’m going to do

Well, I’m going back home, that’s what I’m going to do

You’ve done better by me than I’ve done by you

Oh oh, I’m drowning in you

Well, I’m going back home, that’s what I’m going to do

You’ve done better by me than I’ve done by you

Oh oh, I’m drowning in you

Oh oh, I’m drowning in you

Ooh, I’m going back home, that’s what I’m gonna do

Oh, I’m drowning in you

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There you have it, that was a real good one

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