《To Beat the Devil(Live at the Big Sur Folk Festival)》歌词

歌曲： To Beat the Devil(Live at the Big Sur Folk Festival)

所属专辑：The Complete Monument & Columbia Album Collection

歌手： Kris Kristofferson

时长： 04:43

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To Beat The Devil - Kris Kristofferson[00:00:00]

[Voice: It was winter time in Nashville down on music city row[00:00:06]

And I was looking for a place to get myself out of the cold to warm[00:00:52]

The frozen feeling that was eating at my soul and keep the chilly[00:00:57]

Wind off my guitar; my thirsty wanted whiskey my hungry needed[00:01:04]

Beans; but it'd been a month of pay days since I'd heard that eagle[00:01:10]

Scream; so with a stomach full of empty and pocket full of dreams[00:01:17]

I left my pride and stepped inside a bar (actually I guess you'd[00:01:23]

Call it a tavern) Cigarette smoke to the ceiling and sawdust on the[00:01:28]

Floor [00:01:33]

Friendly shadows I saw that there was just one old man sitting[00:01:36]

At the bar; and in the mirror I could see him checking me with my[00:01:45]

Guitar; he turned and said "come up here boy and show us what you[00:01:50]

Are" I said "I'm dry" and he bought me a beer He nodded at my[00:01:56]

Guitar and said "It's a tough life ain't it " I just looked at him[00:02:03]

And he said "You ain't making any money are you " I said "You've[00:02:09]

Been reading my mail" He just smiled and said "Let me see that[00:02:14]

Guitar: I got something you ought to hear" Then he laid[00:02:17]

It on me [00:02:21]

If you waste your time a-talking to the people who don't listen[00:02:22]

To the things that you are saying who do you think's going to hear [00:02:28]

And if you should die explaining how the things that they complain about[00:02:34]

Are things they could be changing who d'you think's goin' to care [00:02:39]

There were other lonely singers in a world turned deaf and blind who[00:02:45]

Were crucified for what they tried to show [00:02:51]

And their voices have been scattered by the swirling winds of time [00:02:55]

'Cause the truth remains that no-one wants to know [00:03:00]

[Voice: Well the old man was a stranger but I'd heard his song before;[00:03:08]

Back when failure had me locked out on the wrong side of the door; when[00:03:13]

No-one stood behind me but my shadow on the floor and lonesome was more[00:03:19]

Than a state of mind You see the devil haunts a hungry man; if you[00:03:24]

Don't want to join him you've got to beat him I ain't sayin' I beat the[00:03:33]

Devil but I drank his beer for nothing and then I stole his song [00:03:40]

And you still can hear me singing to the people who don't listen[00:03:51]

To the things that I am saying praying someone's going to hear;[00:03:56]

And I guess I'll die explaining how the things that they complain about[00:04:02]

Are things they could be changing hoping someone's goin' to care [00:04:07]

I was born a lonely singer and I'm bound to die the same[00:04:12]

But I've got to feed the hunger in my soul;[00:04:16]

And if I never have a nickel I won't ever die of shame[00:04:23]

'Cause I don't believe that no-one wants to know[00:04:27]