Black-throated Wind Lyrics - 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 

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 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, the 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 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 its 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 gonna do 

Goin' back home that's what I'm gonna do 

Turnin' around 

That's what I'm gonna do 

'Cause you've done better by me 

Than I've done by you