Black-Throated Wind(Live at Rheinhalle， Dusseldorf 4/24/72) - Grateful Dead

Bringing me down I'm running aground
Blind in the light of the interstate cars
Passing me by
The busses 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
Ohhh 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
Oh 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 oh 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
Going back home that's
What I'm gonna do
Turning 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
Ohhhh I'm drowning in you
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
Ohhhh I'm drowning in you
Ahhhhh I'm drowning in you
Yes I'm going back home that's
What I'm gonna do
Ohhhh I'm drowning in you