《To Beat the Devil》歌词

[00:00:00] To Beat the Devil (击败魔鬼) - Kris Kristofferson (克里斯·克里斯托佛森)

[00:00:04] It was winter time in Nashville

[00:00:07] Down on music city row

[00:00:10] And I was looking for a place to

[00:00:12] Get myself out of the cold to warm

[00:00:17] The frozen feeling that was eating at my soul

[00:00:22] And keep the chilly

[00:00:23] Wind off my guitar my thirsty wanted whiskey

[00:00:30] My hungry needed

[00:00:31] Beans but it'd been a month of pay days

[00:00:35] Since I'd heard that eagle

[00:00:37] Scream so with a stomach full of empty and

[00:00:43] Pocket full of dreams

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

[00:00:51] Actually I guess you'd

[00:00:53] Call it a tavern cigarette smoke to

[00:00:56] The ceiling and sawdust on the

[00:00:58] Floor

[00:01:02] Friendly shadows

[00:01:08] I saw that there was just one old man sitting

[00:01:12] At the bar and in the mirror

[00:01:15] I could see him checking me with my

[00:01:17] Guitar he turned and said

[00:01:21] Come up here boy and show us what you

[00:01:24] Are

[00:01:26] I said I'm dry

[00:01:27] And he bought me a beer

[00:01:32] He nodded at my

[00:01:33] Guitar and said

[00:01:34] It's a tough life ain't it

[00:01:37] I just looked at him

[00:01:39] And he said you ain't making any money are you

[00:01:43] I said you've

[00:01:44] Been reading my mail he just smiled and said

[00:01:47] Let me see that

[00:01:48] Guitar I got something you ought to hear

[00:01:53] Then he laid

[00:01:54] It on me

[00:01:56] If you waste your time a talking to the people

[00:02:01] Who don't listen

[00:02:02] To the things that you are saying

[00:02:05] Who do you think's going to hear

[00:02:08] And if you should die explaining

[00:02:10] How the things that they complain about

[00:02:14] Are things they could be changing

[00:02:17] Who d'you think's goin' to care

[00:02:21] There were other lonely singers

[00:02:24] In a world turned deaf and blind who

[00:02:27] Were crucified for what they tried to show

[00:02:32] And their voices have been scattered

[00:02:35] By the swirling winds of time

[00:02:38] 'Cause the truth remains that no one wants to know

[00:02:46] Well the old man was a stranger

[00:02:49] But I'd heard his song before

[00:02:53] Back when failure had me locked out

[00:02:56] On the wrong side of the door when

[00:02:59] No thing stood behind me but my shadow

[00:03:02] On the floor and lonesome was more

[00:03:06] Than a state of mind you see

[00:03:11] The devil haunts a hungry man if you

[00:03:16] Don't want to join him you've got to beat him

[00:03:22] I ain't sayin' I beat the

[00:03:23] Devil but I drank his beer for nothing

[00:03:28] And then I stole his song

[00:03:32] And you still can hear me singing to the people

[00:03:36] Who don't listen

[00:03:38] To the things that I am saying

[00:03:41] Praying someone's going to hear

[00:03:43] And I guess I'll die explaining

[00:03:46] How the things that they complain about

[00:03:49] Are things they could be changing

[00:03:52] Hoping someone's goin' to care

[00:03:56] I was born a lonesome singer and I'm bound to die the same

[00:04:02] But I've got to feed the hunger in my soul

[00:04:07] And if I never have a nickel I won't ever die of shame

[00:04:13] 'Cause I don't believe that no one wants to know

[00:04:34] 'Cause I be long before