You're bringing me down, I'm running aground
Blind in the lights of the interstate cars
Pa**ing me by, the busses and the semis
Plugging like stones from a slingshot from mars
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
Black throated wind, keeps on pourin' in
With its words of a life where nothing is new
Ah, mother American night, I pa** from the light
Ah, I'm drownin' 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 werent the women I once thought I'd met
But I can't deny, times have gone by
Well 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, whisper in sin
And speaking on life that pa**es like dew
It's forced me to see you've done better by me
Better by me that I've done by you
Now whats to be found by racing around
You carry your pain wherever you go
Full of blues, and trying to lose
You ain't gonna learn what you dont wanna 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, and make it dance
But looking at you is looking at me
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
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
I'm drowning in you