Black Throated Wind lyrics

Song information

Artist: Grateful Dead
Album: Steal Your Face

Lyrics

You're bringing me down, I'm running aground
Blind in the lights of the interstate cars
Passing me by, the busses and the semis
Plunging like stones from a slingshot from mars

But I'm here on the road, bound to the load
That I picked up in ten thousand cafes and bars
Alone with the rush of the drivers that won't pick me up
The highway, the moon, and clouds and the stars

Black throated wind, keeps on pourin' in
With it's words of a life where nothing is new
Ah, mother american night, I pass from the light
Ah, I'm drownin' in you

I left st. louie, 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 women I once thought I'd met

But I can't deny, times have gone by
Well 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 in sin
And speaking on life that passes like dew
It's forced me to see you've done better by me
Better by me that I've done by you

Now what's to be found by racing around
You carry your pain wherever you go
Full of blues, and tryin' to lose
You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna 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 dance
But looking at you is looking at me

Black throated wind, keeps on pourin' in
With it's words of a life that could almost be true
Ah, mother american night, here comes a light
I'm turning around, that's what I'm gonna do

Going back home that's what I'm gonna do
I'm turning around, that's what I'm gonna do
Going back home that's what I'm gonna do
Cause you've done better by me than I've done by you
I'm drowning in you