Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Bill Payne
Listed on ASCAP as a song with lyrics by Robert Hunter and music by Bill Payne. Thanks to John Prehn for pointing me to the recording of Bill Payne playing it on 16 May 2014. The lyrics are very hard to make out. Below is all I can decipher after listening that and another recording - any help gratefully received.
Caught in the middle of the driving rain
Feeling like I've been shot in the brain
[?] got an alibi
[?]
[?] I'm in love with you
But you made my dreams come true
Same time well I can tell
This [?] weather
Down in the bottom of a half mile drop
Maybe I know when the [hollow] stops
[?]
Don't you ever run away again
Don't you ever run away again
This time round it must be paid
Early in the morning it's getting late
Sun set backwards, ain't quite right
Though I couldn't believe my eyes
This sure thing I know to be true
Makes no difference what I say or do
I know now that I be this way
[?] what I want to say
Down at the bottom of a half mile drop
Think I'll know when the [hollow] stops
[?]
Don't you ever run away again
Don't you ever run away again
Come again, I missed I guess
Don't you look fine in your party dress
No, no. no - to explain
I feel like I'm shot in the brain
Wish I'd known, it must be [charged]
Don't want to say I'm [?] so hard
Baby if you're down or [?]
Bar your windows and lock the door
Hope you're feeling [?] anyway
Bye bye baby, I start to say
For what it's worth I do love you
[?]
Down at the bottom of a half mile drop
Think I'll know when the [hollow] stops
[?]
Don't you ever run away again
Don't you ever run away again