Black Throated Wind (Live at Stanley Theater, September 27, 1972)-Grateful Dead

[00:25.64]You're bringing me down I'm running aground [00:31.54]Blind in the lights of the interstate cars [00:38.10]Passing me by the busses and the semis [00:44.10]Plunging like stones from a slingshot from mars [00:50.33]But I'm here on the road bound to the load [00:57.07]That I picked up in ten thousand cafes and bars [01:03.50]Alone with the rush of the drivers that won't pick me up [01:09.89]The highway the moon and clouds and the stars [01:16.14]Black throated wind keeps on pouring in [01:21.65]With it's words of a life where nothing is new [01:29.00]Ah mother american night I pass from the light [01:36.01]Ah I'm drowning in you [01:38.47] [01:58.29]I left st Louie city of blues [02:04.38]In the midst of a storm I'd rather forget [02:11.20]I tried to pretend it came to an end [02:17.88]Cause you weren't the women I once thought I'd met [02:20.87] [02:24.56]But I can't deny times have gone by [02:31.26]Well I never had doubts or thoughts of regret [02:37.93]And I was a man when all this began [02:44.65]Who wouldn't think twice about being there yet [02:51.11]Black throated wind whisper in sin [02:56.91]And speaking on life that passes like dew [03:04.37]It's forced me to see you've done better by me [03:11.43]Better by me that I've done by you [03:14.53] [03:34.92]Now what's to be found by racing around [03:41.73]You carry your pain wherever you go [03:48.75]Full of blues and trying to lose [03:55.68]You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know [04:02.13]So I give you my eyes and all of their lies [04:09.35]Please help them to learn as well as to see [04:16.20]Capture a glance and make it dance [04:23.10]But looking at you is looking at me [04:29.80]Black throated wind keeps on pouring in [04:35.67]With it's words of a life that could almost be true [04:43.57]Ah mother american night here comes a light [04:50.85]I'm turning around that's what I'm gonna do [04:57.10]Going back home that's what I'm gonna do [05:04.23]I'm turning around that's what I'm gonna do [05:10.98]Going back home that's what I'm gonna do [05:16.94]Cause you've done better by me than I've done by you [05:23.79]Cause you've done better by me than I've done by you [05:30.22]Oh I'm drowning in you [05:37.18]Oh I'm drowning in you [05:43.93]Oh I'm drowning in you [05:50.75]Oh I'm drowning in you [05:57.53]Cause you've done better by me than I've done by you [06:04.10]Oh I'm drowning in you [06:10.97]Oh I'm drowning in you [06:17.80]Oh I'm drowning in you [06:21.98]