The Grateful Dead - Black-Throated Wind lyrics
[The Grateful Dead - Black-Throated Wind lyrics]
Bringing me down i'm running aground
Blind in the light of the interstate cars
Passing me by the busses and semis
Plunging like stones from a slingshot on Mars
But I'm here by the road bound to the load
That 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 it's words of a life
Where nothing is new
Ah, Mother American Night
I'm lost from the light
Ohhh, I'm drowning in you
I left St louis, the City of Blues
In the midst of a storm I'd rather forget
I tried to pretend it came to an end
Because you weren't the woman I
Thought I once met
But I can't deny that times have gone by
When 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
The black-throated wind keeps on pouring in
And it speaks of a life that passes like dew
It's forced me to see that
You've done better by me
Better by me than I've done by you
What's to be found, racing around
You carry your pain wherever you go
Full of the blues and 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 and make it a dance
Of looking at you looking at me
The black-throated wind keeps on pouring in
With it's words of a lie
That could almost be true
Ah, Mother American Night
Here comes the light i'm turning around
That's what I'm going to do
Going back home that's what I'm going to do
Turning around that's what I'm going to do
Because you've done better by me
Than I've done by you
Blind in the light of the interstate cars
Passing me by the busses and semis
Plunging like stones from a slingshot on Mars
But I'm here by the road bound to the load
That 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 it's words of a life
Where nothing is new
Ah, Mother American Night
I'm lost from the light
Ohhh, I'm drowning in you
I left St louis, the City of Blues
In the midst of a storm I'd rather forget
I tried to pretend it came to an end
Because you weren't the woman I
Thought I once met
But I can't deny that times have gone by
When 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
The black-throated wind keeps on pouring in
And it speaks of a life that passes like dew
It's forced me to see that
You've done better by me
Better by me than I've done by you
What's to be found, racing around
You carry your pain wherever you go
Full of the blues and 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 and make it a dance
Of looking at you looking at me
The black-throated wind keeps on pouring in
With it's words of a lie
That could almost be true
Ah, Mother American Night
Here comes the light i'm turning around
That's what I'm going to do
Going back home that's what I'm going to do
Turning around that's what I'm going to do
Because you've done better by me
Than I've done by you