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