Kunci: G major•
Verse 1
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A couple of years back I come across a great and wasted friend of mine in the hallway of a recording studio. And while he was reciting some poetry to me that he had written, I saw that he was about a step away from dying,
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and I couldn't help but wonder why. And the lines of this song occurred to me. I'm happy to say he's no longer wasted, and he's got him a good woman. And I'd like to dedicate this to John and June, who helped showed me how to beat the devil.
Verse 2
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It was wintertime in Nashville
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Down on Music City Row
And I was looking for a place
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And to get my self out of the cold
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To warm the frozen feeling that was
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eating at my soul
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Keep the chilly wind off my guitar
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My thirsty wanted whiskey
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But my hunger needed beans
But it had been a month of paydays
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Since I'd heard that eagle scream
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So with a stomach full of empty
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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'd guess you'd call
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it a tavern
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Cigarette smoke to the ceiling
I saw that there was just one
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old man sitting at the bar
And in the mirror I could see him
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checking me and my guitar
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Come up here,
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boy, and show us what you are
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I said I'm dry, and he bought me a beer
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He nodded at my guitar and said,
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It's a tough life, ain't it?
I just looked at him
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He said, you ain't making
any money, are you?
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I said, you been reading my mail
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let me see that guitar
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I got something you ought to hear
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And then he laid it on me
Verse 3
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If you waste your time a talking To the
people who don't listen
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To the things that you are saying
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Who do you thinks gonna hear?
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And if you should die explaining how
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The things that they complain about
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Are things they could be changing
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Who do you thinks gonna care?
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There were other lonely singers
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In a world turned deaf and blind
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Who were crucified for what they
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And their voices have been scattered by the
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swirling winds of time
‘Cause the truth remains that
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no one wants to know
Verse 4
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Well the old man was a stranger
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But I'd heard his song before
Back when failure had me locked out
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On the wrong side of the door
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When no one stood behind me
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But my shadow on the floor
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And lonesome was more than
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a state of mind
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You see, the devil haunts a hungry man
If you don't want to join him
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I ain't saying I beat the devil
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But I drank his beer for nothing
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Then I stole his song
Verse 5
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And you still can hear me singing
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To the people who don't listen
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To the things that I am saying
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Praying someone's gonna hear
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And I guess I'll die explaining how
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The things that they complain about
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Are things they could be changing
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Hoping someone's gonna care
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I was born a lonely singer
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And I'm bound to die the same
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But I've gotta feed the hunger in my soul
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And if I never have a nickel
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I won't ever die ashamed
‘Cause I don't believe
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that no one wants to know
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