《To Beat The Devil》歌词

[00:00:00] To Beat The Devil (击败魔鬼) - Waylon Jennings (维隆·杰宁斯)

[00:00:06] It was winter time in nashville

[00:00:08] Down on music city row

[00:00:12] I was lookin' for a place to get

[00:00:14] Myself out of the cold

[00:00:17] To warm the frozen feeling

[00:00:19] That was eatin' at my soul

[00:00:23] And keep the chilly winds off my guitar

[00:00:28] My thirsty wanted whiskey

[00:00:30] And my hunger needed beans

[00:00:34] But I guess it'd been a month of payday

[00:00:36] Since I heard that eagle scream

[00:00:40] So with a stomach full of empty

[00:00:42] And a pocket full of dreams

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

[00:00:51] Actually I guess you'd call it a tavern

[00:00:56] Cigarette smoke to the ceiling

[00:00:57] Sawdust on the floor friendly shadows

[00:01:03] I saw that there was just

[00:01:05] An old man sittin' at the bar

[00:01:09] In the mirror I could see him

[00:01:11] Checkin' me and my guitar

[00:01:15] He said come up here boy

[00:01:17] Show us what you are

[00:01:20] I said I'm dry he bought me a beer

[00:01:26] He nodded at my guitar

[00:01:27] Said it's a tough life ain't it

[00:01:30] I just looked at him

[00:01:33] And he said you ain't

[00:01:34] Makin' any money are you

[00:01:35] I said you been readin' my mail

[00:01:38] He just smiled and said let me see that guitar

[00:01:40] I got somethin' you oughta hear

[00:01:43] Then he laid it on me

[00:01:47] If you waste your time a talking

[00:01:49] To the people who don't listen

[00:01:51] To the things that you are saying

[00:01:54] Who do you thinks gonna hear

[00:01:57] And if you should die explaining

[00:01:59] How the thing they complain about

[00:02:02] Or the things they could be changing

[00:02:04] Who do you thinks gonna care

[00:02:07] There were lots of other singers

[00:02:10] In the world turned deaf and blind

[00:02:13] Who were crucified for what they tried to show

[00:02:17] Now their voices have been scattered

[00:02:20] By the swirling winds of time

[00:02:22] And the truth remains that no one wants to know

[00:02:28] Well the old man was a stranger

[00:02:31] But I'd've heard his song before

[00:02:35] Back when failure had me locked out

[00:02:37] On the wrong side of the door

[00:02:40] No one stood behind me but my shadow on the floor

[00:02:45] And lonesome was more than a state of mind

[00:02:50] You see the devil haunts a hungry man

[00:02:55] And if you don't wanna join him

[00:02:57] Well he's gotta figure out someway to beat him

[00:03:01] And I ain't sayin' I beat the devil

[00:03:04] But I drink his beer for nothing

[00:03:08] And then I stole his song

[00:03:12] You can still hear me singing

[00:03:14] To the people who don't listen

[00:03:17] To the things that I am saying

[00:03:19] Prayin' someone's gonna hear

[00:03:22] And I guess I'll die explaining

[00:03:24] How the things that they complain about

[00:03:27] Are things they could be changing

[00:03:29] Hopin' someone's gonna care

[00:03:33] I was born to be a singer

[00:03:35] And I'm bound to die the same

[00:03:38] But I've got to feed this hunger in my soul

[00:03:42] If I never have a nickel

[00:03:45] I won't even die in shame

[00:03:47] 'Cause I don't believe that no one wants to know