Black-Throated Wind (Grateful Dead)

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Bringing me down, I'm runnin aground
Blind in the light of the interstate cars
Passin me by, the buses and semis
Plungin like stones from a slingshot on mars

But I'm here by the road, bound to the load
I picked up in 10,000 cafes and bars
Alone with the rush of the drivers that 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
A mother American night, I'm lost from the light
Whoa, I'm drowning in you

I left St. Louie, city of blues
In the midst of a storm that 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 times have gone by
I never had doubts or thoughts of regret
And I was a man when all this began
Who'd never think twice about being there yet

The black-throated wind, whisperin sin
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

Now what's to be found racing around
You carry your pain whereever you go
All full of the blues, trying to lose
Well you ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know

So I gave you my eyes, they were just a disguise
We'll help to look as well as to see
And capture a glance, oh yes, and make a dance
Of looking at you looking at me

The black-throated wind keeps on pouring in
With its words of a life that could almost be true
A mother American night, here come the light
I'll turn around, that's what I'm gonna do
I'm goin back home home, that's what I'm gonna do
Cause you done better by me than I've done by you
Oh, I'm drowning in you...