To Beat The Devil-Kris Kristofferson

[ti:To Beat The Devil] [ar:Kris Kristofferson] [al:Me & Bobby Mcgee] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.87]To Beat The Devil (击败魔鬼) - Kris Kristofferson (克里斯·克里斯托佛森) [00:03.30] [00:06.11]Voice: It was winter time in Nashville down on music city row [00:50.29] [00:52.03]And I was looking for a place to get myself out of the cold to warm [00:57.71]The frozen feeling that was eating at my soul and keep the chilly [01:04.02]Wind off my guitar; my thirsty wanted whiskey my hungry needed [01:10.63]Beans; but it'd been a month of pay days since I'd heard that eagle [01:16.99] [01:17.74]Scream; so with a stomach full of empty and pocket full of dreams [01:21.81] [01:23.00]I left my pride and stepped inside a bar actually I guess you'd [01:28.74]Call it a tavern Cigarette smoke to the ceiling and sawdust on the [01:33.54]Floor [01:34.23] [01:36.54]Friendly shadows I saw that there was just one old man sitting [01:45.71]At the bar; and in the mirror I could see him checking me with my [01:50.83]Guitar; he turned and said "come up here boy and show us what you [01:56.20]Are" I said "I'm dry" and he bought me a beer He nodded at my [02:03.75]Guitar and said "It's a tough life ain't it " I just looked at him [02:09.55]And he said "You ain't making any money are you " I said "You've [02:14.17]Been reading my mail" He just smiled and said "Let me see that [02:17.54]Guitar: I got something you ought to hear" Then he laid [02:21.54]It on me [02:22.23]If you waste your time a-talking to the people who don't listen [02:28.91]To the things that you are saying who do you think's going to hear [02:33.96] [02:34.65]And if you should die explaining how the things that they complain about [02:39.58]Are things they could be changing who d'you think's goin' to care [02:44.07] [02:45.69]There were other lonely singers in a world turned deaf and blind who [02:51.06]Were crucified for what they tried to show [02:54.18] [02:55.86]And their voices have been scattered by the swirling winds of time [03:00.86]'Cause the truth remains that no-one wants to know [03:04.69] [03:08.67]Voice: Well the old man was a stranger but I'd heard his song before; [03:13.10] [03:13.73]Back when failure had me locked out on the wrong side of the door; when [03:19.52]No-one stood behind me but my shadow on the floor and lonesome was more [03:24.95]Than a state of mind You see the devil haunts a hungry man; if you [03:33.81]Don't want to join him you've got to beat him I ain't sayin' I beat the [03:40.30]Devil but I drank his beer for nothing and then I stole his song [03:48.22] [03:51.90]And you still can hear me singing to the people who don't listen [03:56.33]To the things that I am saying praying someone's going to hear; [04:01.51] [04:02.14]And I guess I'll die explaining how the things that they complain about [04:07.25]Are things they could be changing hoping someone's goin' to care [04:11.31] [04:12.99]I was born a lonely singer and I'm bound to die the same [04:16.86]But I've got to feed the hunger in my soul; [04:21.69] [04:23.12]And if I never have a nickel I won't ever die of shame [04:27.99]'Cause I don't believe that no-one wants to know