To Beat the Devil-Kris Kristofferson

[ti:To Beat the Devil] [ar:Kris Kristofferson] [al:The Cedar Creek Sessions] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]To Beat the Devil (击败魔鬼) - Kris Kristofferson (克里斯·克里斯托佛森) [00:04.38]It was winter time in Nashville [00:06.39] [00:07.21]Down on music city row [00:09.28] [00:10.71]And I was looking for a place to [00:12.72]Get myself out of the cold to warm [00:17.52]The frozen feeling that was eating at my soul [00:20.69] [00:22.66]And keep the chilly [00:23.68]Wind off my guitar my thirsty wanted whiskey [00:30.10] [00:30.65]My hungry needed [00:31.95]Beans but it'd been a month of pay days [00:35.99]Since I'd heard that eagle [00:37.48]Scream so with a stomach full of empty and [00:43.20]Pocket full of dreams [00:44.59] [00:45.16]I left my pride and stepped inside a bar [00:48.11] [00:51.90]Actually I guess you'd [00:53.04]Call it a tavern cigarette smoke to [00:56.76]The ceiling and sawdust on the [00:58.62]Floor [00:59.11] [01:02.07]Friendly shadows [01:03.54] [01:08.36]I saw that there was just one old man sitting [01:12.25]At the bar and in the mirror [01:15.54]I could see him checking me with my [01:17.66]Guitar he turned and said [01:21.28]Come up here boy and show us what you [01:24.42]Are [01:24.86] [01:26.50]I said I'm dry [01:27.97]And he bought me a beer [01:29.40] [01:32.41]He nodded at my [01:33.36]Guitar and said [01:34.31]It's a tough life ain't it [01:36.14] [01:37.26]I just looked at him [01:38.70] [01:39.28]And he said you ain't making any money are you [01:42.04] [01:43.51]I said you've [01:44.10]Been reading my mail he just smiled and said [01:47.92]Let me see that [01:48.78]Guitar I got something you ought to hear [01:52.66] [01:53.70]Then he laid [01:54.33]It on me [01:55.38] [01:56.76]If you waste your time a talking to the people [02:01.10]Who don't listen [02:02.50]To the things that you are saying [02:05.10] [02:05.65]Who do you think's going to hear [02:07.75] [02:08.52]And if you should die explaining [02:10.93]How the things that they complain about [02:14.18]Are things they could be changing [02:17.09]Who d'you think's goin' to care [02:19.13] [02:21.02]There were other lonely singers [02:24.17]In a world turned deaf and blind who [02:27.35]Were crucified for what they tried to show [02:31.22] [02:32.43]And their voices have been scattered [02:35.44]By the swirling winds of time [02:38.15] [02:38.66]'Cause the truth remains that no one wants to know [02:42.84] [02:46.96]Well the old man was a stranger [02:49.19] [02:49.85]But I'd heard his song before [02:51.84] [02:53.56]Back when failure had me locked out [02:56.01]On the wrong side of the door when [02:59.68]No thing stood behind me but my shadow [03:02.51]On the floor and lonesome was more [03:06.50]Than a state of mind you see [03:11.69]The devil haunts a hungry man if you [03:16.68]Don't want to join him you've got to beat him [03:21.05] [03:22.31]I ain't sayin' I beat the [03:23.81]Devil but I drank his beer for nothing [03:26.90] [03:28.90]And then I stole his song [03:30.73] [03:32.39]And you still can hear me singing to the people [03:36.62]Who don't listen [03:38.01]To the things that I am saying [03:40.61] [03:41.14]Praying someone's going to hear [03:43.82]And I guess I'll die explaining [03:46.33]How the things that they complain about [03:49.51]Are things they could be changing [03:52.45]Hoping someone's goin' to care [03:54.70] [03:56.23]I was born a lonesome singer and I'm bound to die the same [04:01.82] [04:02.37]But I've got to feed the hunger in my soul [04:06.07] [04:07.61]And if I never have a nickel I won't ever die of shame [04:13.23] [04:13.76]'Cause I don't believe that no one wants to know [04:17.20] [04:34.32]'Cause I be long before