&quot;It was wintertime in Nashville<br />Down on music city row,<br />And I had to find a place to get <br />Myself out of the cold<br />To warm the frozen feeling <br />That was eating at my bones,<br />Keep the chilly wind off my guitar.<br />My thirsty wanted whiskey<br />My hungry needed <b>beans</b>,<br />But it’d been a month of paydays<br />Since I’d earned the equal scene<br />So with a stomach full of empty<br />And a pocket full of dreams<br />I swallowed my pride and stepped inside a bar,<br />Actually you’d call it a tavern<br />Cigarette smoke to the ceiling<br />Sawdust on the floor, friendly shadows<br />I saw that there was just one old man sitting at the bar,<br />And I could see him checking me and my guitar,<br />He said, ‘Come up here boy and show us what you are&#33;’<br />I said, ‘I’m dry.’ He bought me a beer.<br />He looked at my guitar and said, ‘It’s a tough life ain’it?’<br />I look ed at him and he said, ‘You aint making any money are you?’<br />I said, ‘You been reading my mail.’<br />He just smiled and said, ‘Let me see that guitar, <br />I got something you oughta hear.’<br />Then he laid it on me…<br /><br />If you waste your time talking to <br />The people who won’t listen to <br />The things that you are saying who<br />Do you think’s gonna hear?<br />And if you should die explaining how<br />The things that they complain about<br />Are things they could be changing, <br />Who do you think’s gonna care?<br />There were other lonely singers <br />In a world turned deaf and blind <br />Who were crucified<br />For what they tried to show<br />And their voices have been scattered by <br />The swirling winds of time,<br />Because the truth remains<br />That no one wants to know.<br /><br />The old man was a stranger<br />But I’d heard his workds before<br />Back when failure had me locked out<br />On the wrong side of the door,<br />When no one stood beside me<br />But my shadow on the floor<br />And lonesome is more than a state of mind.<br />See the devil haunts a hungry man<br />If you don’t want to<b> join </b>  <br /><br />Kris Kristofferson - &quot;Beat The Devil&quot;<br /><br /><br /><b>JOIN</b>