Bringing me down, I'm running aground   Blind in the light of the interstate cars   Passing me by, the buses and semis   Plunging like stones from a slingshot on Mars      But I'm here by the road, bound to the load   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   Ohh, I'm drowning 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 weren't the woman I once thought I'd met      But I can't deny, oh, times have gone by   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   Is speaking of life that passes like dew   Forced me to see you've done better by me   Better by me than I've done by you      Now what's to be found, racing around   You carry your pain wherever you go   Oh, full of the blues trying to lose   You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know      I give you my eyes, all of their lies   Please help them to learn as well as to see   That capture a glance, oh, and make 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   Goin' around, that's what I'm gonna do      Goin' back home that's what I'm gonna do   Turnin' around, that's what I'm gonna do   Goin' back home that's what I'm, I'm gonna do   You've done better by me than I've done by you      Ohh, I'm drowning in you   Ohh, I'm drowning in you   I'm goin' back home that's what I'm gonna do   Well, I'm goin' drowning in you