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To Beat The Devil
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Waylon Jennings
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It was winter time in Nashville down on Music City Row
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I was lookin' for a place to get myself out of the cold
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To warm the frozen feelin' that was eatin' at my soul
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And keep the chilly winds off my guitar
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My thirsty wanted whiskey and my hunger needed beans
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But I guess it'd been a month of payday since I heard that eagle scream
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So with a stomach full of empty and a pocket full of dreams
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I left my pride and stepped inside a bar
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Actually I guess you'd call it a tavern
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Cigarette smoke to the ceiling sawdust on the floor friendly shadows
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I saw that there was just an old man sittin' at the bar
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In the mirror I could see him checkin' me and my guitar
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He said come up here boy show us what you are I said I'm dry he bought me a beer
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He nodded at my guitar said it's a tough life ain't it I just looked at him
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And he said you ain't makin' any money are you I said you been readin' my mail
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He just smiled and said let me see that guitar
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I got somethin' you oughta hear then he laid it on me
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If you waste your time a talkin' to the people who don't listen
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To the things that you are sayin' who do you thinks gonna hear
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And if you should die explainin' how the thing they complain about
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Or the things they could be changing who do you thinks gonna care
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There were lots of other singers in the world turned deaf and blind
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Who were crucified for what they tried to show
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Now their voices have been scattered by the swirling winds of time
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And the truth remains that no one wants to know
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Well the old man was a stranger but I'd've heard his song before
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Back when failure had me locked out on the wrong side of the door
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No one stood behind me but my shadow on the floor
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And lonesome was more than a state of mind
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You see the devil haunts a hungry man
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And if you don't wanna join him well he's gotta figure out someway to beat him
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And I ain't sayin' I beat the devil but I drink his beer for nothin'
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And then I stole his song
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You can still hear me singin' to the people who don't listen
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To the things that I am sayin' prayin' someone's gonna hear
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And I guess I'll die explaining how the things that they complain about
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Are things they could be changin' hopin' someone's gonna care
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I was born to be a singer and I'm bound to die the same
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But I've got to feed this hunger in my soul
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If I never have a nickel I won't even die in shame
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Cause I don't believe that no one wants to know
Kris Kristofferson • To Beat the Devil (...
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