The Junkie And The Juicehead, Minus Me-Kris Kristofferson

[ti:The Junkie And The Juicehead, Minus Me (Album Version)] [ar:Kris Kristofferson] [al:Kristofferson] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Junkie and the Juicehead, Minus Me (Bonus Track) - Kris Kristofferson [00:05.35]I was a stumble bummin' down [00:07.86]The neon Music City sidewalks [00:11.37]With the Junkie and the Juicehead [00:13.80]Who had problems of their own [00:16.62]Stuck with luck it kept me standin' just [00:20.07]A step away from starvin' [00:22.41]And the talent that I swore I'd show [00:25.43]Before I'd go back home [00:29.50]Ninety days I looked the army makin' [00:32.91]Neither love nor money [00:35.22]And my only set of clothes was gettin' [00:38.57]Closer to the bone [00:41.06]And the Junkie placed an order with [00:44.16]The Prophet on the corner [00:46.60]And he told him of the soul that he'd [00:50.01]Been sellin' for a song [00:53.45]He said my future was my fortune [00:56.89]But I let it slip away [00:59.45]Slowly smokin' myself broke on [01:02.47]Eighty cigarettes a day [01:05.91]Findin' out that crime ain't all [01:08.65]There is that doesn't pay [01:10.97]And writin' words that no one's [01:13.70]Gonna see and did you said it who said it [01:17.90]I can read my fortune in the bottom of a glass [01:22.61]And I can see it's time for me [01:25.56]To make my last request [01:28.08]Won't you fill my grave with whiskey [01:31.04]When I'm laid away to rest [01:33.68]So the boys can say I drank myself to dead [01:42.48]Well I drank the whole thing over [01:45.43]Puttin' one and two together [01:48.26]And it added up to more of [01:50.74]What I didn't want to be [01:53.72]I ain't blamin' Music City but it's only gonna see me [01:59.30]One more day and the wake up [02:02.11]And the time it takes to leave [02:06.45]Cause I got a dirty picture of [02:09.44]What could have been my future [02:11.92]In a Prophet pushin' day dreams [02:14.97]On a corner for a fee [02:18.01]And the wino lookin' lonely [02:20.37]At a bottle gettin' empty [02:23.56]And a hungry lookin' junkie [02:26.29]Huntin' tea in sympathy [02:30.54]And I bet that junkie's laughin' after [02:33.78]The life he threw away [02:36.18]Slowly smokin' himself broke [02:38.80]On eighty cigarettes a day [02:42.12]Pleadin' down the Prophet to a price that he can pay [02:47.88]And writin' words that no one's [02:50.37]Gonna see but did you said it who said it [02:54.09]Every empty bottle is my private crystal ball [02:59.04]And starin' into the future findin' nothin' there at all [03:04.58]Which is what I'll miss tomorrow [03:07.45]When the neon shadows fall [03:10.32]On the Junkie and the Juicehead minus me