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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've 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, the clouds, and the stars
Black-throated wind keeps on pouring in
With its words of a life where nothing is new
Ah, Mother American Night, I'm sprung for life
And 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 pretะตnd it came to an end
But you weren't thะต woman I once thought I'd met
But I can't deny, oh, times have gone by
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 whispering sin
It's speaking of a life that passes like dew
Forced me to see you've done better by me
Better by me than I've done by you
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Now what's to be found messin' around
You carry your bag wherever you go
All full of the blues, trying to lose
You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know
I give you my eyes, all their lies
Please help them to learn as well as to see
Capture a glance, oh, 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 I come tonight
Going around, that's what I'm gonna do
Going back home, that's what I'm gonna do
Turning around, that's what I'm gonna do
Going back home, that's what I'm gonna do
You've done better by me than I've done by you
Whoa, I'm drowning in you
Whoa, I'm drowning in you
I'm going back home, that's what I'm gonna do
Whoa, I'm drowning in you
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