《To Beat The Devil》歌词

歌曲： To Beat The Devil

所属专辑：Good Hearted Woman

歌手： Waylon Jennings

时长： 04:03

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To Beat The Devil (击败魔鬼) - Waylon Jennings (维隆·杰宁斯)[00:00:00]

It was winter time in nashville[00:00:06]

Down on music city row[00:00:08]

I was lookin' for a place to get[00:00:12]

Myself out of the cold[00:00:14]

To warm the frozen feeling[00:00:17]

That was eatin' at my soul[00:00:19]

And keep the chilly winds off my guitar[00:00:23]

My thirsty wanted whiskey[00:00:28]

And my hunger needed beans[00:00:30]

But I guess it'd been a month of payday[00:00:34]

Since I heard that eagle scream[00:00:36]

So with a stomach full of empty[00:00:40]

And a pocket full of dreams[00:00:42]

I left my pride and stepped inside a bar[00:00:45]

Actually I guess you'd call it a tavern[00:00:51]

Cigarette smoke to the ceiling[00:00:56]

Sawdust on the floor friendly shadows[00:00:57]

I saw that there was just[00:01:03]

An old man sittin' at the bar[00:01:05]

In the mirror I could see him[00:01:09]

Checkin' me and my guitar[00:01:11]

He said come up here boy[00:01:15]

Show us what you are[00:01:17]

I said I'm dry he bought me a beer[00:01:20]

He nodded at my guitar[00:01:26]

Said it's a tough life ain't it[00:01:27]

I just looked at him[00:01:30]

And he said you ain't[00:01:33]

Makin' any money are you[00:01:34]

I said you been readin' my mail[00:01:35]

He just smiled and said let me see that guitar[00:01:38]

I got somethin' you oughta hear[00:01:40]

Then he laid it on me[00:01:43]

If you waste your time a talking[00:01:47]

To the people who don't listen[00:01:49]

To the things that you are saying[00:01:51]

Who do you thinks gonna hear[00:01:54]

And if you should die explaining[00:01:57]

How the thing they complain about[00:01:59]

Or the things they could be changing[00:02:02]

Who do you thinks gonna care[00:02:04]

There were lots of other singers[00:02:07]

In the world turned deaf and blind[00:02:10]

Who were crucified for what they tried to show[00:02:13]

Now their voices have been scattered[00:02:17]

By the swirling winds of time[00:02:20]

And the truth remains that no one wants to know[00:02:22]

Well the old man was a stranger[00:02:28]

But I'd've heard his song before[00:02:31]

Back when failure had me locked out[00:02:35]

On the wrong side of the door[00:02:37]

No one stood behind me but my shadow on the floor[00:02:40]

And lonesome was more than a state of mind[00:02:45]

You see the devil haunts a hungry man[00:02:50]

And if you don't wanna join him[00:02:55]

Well he's gotta figure out someway to beat him[00:02:57]

And I ain't sayin' I beat the devil[00:03:01]

But I drink his beer for nothing[00:03:04]

And then I stole his song[00:03:08]

You can still hear me singing[00:03:12]

To the people who don't listen[00:03:14]

To the things that I am saying[00:03:17]

Prayin' someone's gonna hear[00:03:19]

And I guess I'll die explaining[00:03:22]

How the things that they complain about[00:03:24]

Are things they could be changing[00:03:27]

Hopin' someone's gonna care[00:03:29]

I was born to be a singer[00:03:33]

And I'm bound to die the same[00:03:35]

But I've got to feed this hunger in my soul[00:03:38]

If I never have a nickel[00:03:42]

I won't even die in shame[00:03:45]

'Cause I don't believe that no one wants to know[00:03:47]