Bringing me down, I'm aground in the light of the interstate cars Passing me by, the buses and Plunging like stones a slingshot on Mars
But I'm here by the road, bound to the I picked up in ten thousand cafes and with the rush of the drivers who won't pick me up The highway, the moon, the clouds and the
The black-throated wind on pouring in With its words of a life nothing is new Ah, American Night, I'm lost from the light Ohh, I'm in you
I left St. Louis, of Blues In the midst of a I'd rather forget I tried to it came to an end you weren't the woman I once thought I'd met
But I can't deny, oh, have gone by I never had doubts or of regret And I was a man all this began Who wouldn't think about being there yet
Black-throated wind, in sin Is speaking of life passes like dew me to see you've done better by me Better by me than I've by you
Now what's to be found, around You carry your pain you go Oh, of the blues trying to lose You gonna learn what you don't want to know
I give you my eyes, all of their help them to learn as well as to see That a glance, oh, and make a dance Of looking at you, at me
The black-throated keeps on pouring in With its words of a lie that almost be true Ah, Mother Night, here comes the light Goin' around, that's I'm gonna do
Goin' back that's what I'm gonna do around, that's what I'm gonna do Goin' back home that's I'm, I'm gonna do You've done by me than I've done by you
Ohh, I'm in you Ohh, I'm in you I'm goin' back home that's I'm gonna do Well, I'm drowning in you