"Black-Throated Wind" lyrics - BOB WEIR

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

[Pre-Chorus:]
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

[Chorus:]
Black-throated wind, keeps on pouring in
With its words of a life where nothing is new
Ah, mother American night, I pass 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 women I once thought I'd met

[Pre-Chorus:]
But I can't deny, oh, 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

[Chorus:]
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 than I've done by you

Now what's to be found from 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 wanna know

[Pre-Chorus:]
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 dance
Of looking at you looking at me

[Chorus:]
Black-throated wind, keeps on pourin' in
With its 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

[Outro:]
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
Whoa-ho, I'm drowning in you
Whoa-ho, I'm drowning in you
Yes, I'm, I'm going back home, that's what I'm gonna do
Going back home, that's what I'm gonna do