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Black Throated Wind
Grateful Dead
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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 I picked up in ten thousand cafes and bars
Alone with the rush 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
Ah, Mother American Night, I'm lost from the light
Oh-oh, I'm drowning in you
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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 once thought I married
But I can't deny that times have gone by
I never had doubts or thoughts of regret
I was a man when all this began
Who wouldn't think twice about being there yet?
The black-throated wind whispering sea
It's speaking of 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
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What's to be found, racing around
You carry your pain wherever you go
All 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 love as well as to see
And 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 turnin' around, that's what I'm going to do
Going back home, that's what I'm going to do
Oh, I'm turnin' around that's what I'm gonna do
Yes, I'm going back home, that's what I'm gonna do
You've done better by me than I've done by you
Oh-oh, I'm drowning in you
You've done better by me than I've done by you
Oh-oh, I'm drowning in you
Oh-oh, I'm drowning in you
I thank you
We've got an equipment malfunction
Wish is to say everything is going as usual
Any minute now
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