Kris Kristofferson

fox69 · 20.05.2015

"Blessing In Disguise"

"Blessing In Disguise"

Well, I guess you know
You took me by surprise
When you told me that you'd broken all the rules
And the future felt as empty as your eyes
When I realized how far I was from you.

But they tell me that the truth'll set you free
From the sad confusion of your lies
And it led me to a side of you that I'd refused to see
So I guess it's been a blessing in disguise

So there's nothing left to keep us holding on, now
To the mystery we used to be before
What we ever shared together there is gone, now
And what might have been don't matter anymore.

But they tell me that the truth'll set you free
From the sweet illusion of your lies
And it led me to a side of you that I'd refused to see
So I guess it's been a blessing in disguise

fox69 · 21.05.2015

"Blue As I Do"
(with Rita Coolidge)

"Blue As I Do"
(with Rita Coolidge)

Day drinkin' just stinkin' out loud
Sundown's come down along with that nighttime crowd
Bookends good friends thoughts of the past
Your time is my time as long as it last
I felt too good for too long to feel as blue as I do
Chain smokin' all jokin' aside
Wishin' and waitin' and hesitatin' tryin' to take it all in stride
Night flight back home everything's changed
All night tonight my thoughts rearranged
I felt too good for too long to feel as blue as I do

Night hawkin' talkin' out of my head
Hometown show down give me the lowdown
But please don't tell me what you think I said
Give me the feeling I'm on the right track
Catch me a night train I ain't comin' back
I felt too good for too long to feel as blue as I do
I felt too good for too long to feel as blue as I do

fox69 · 21.05.2015

"Border Lord"

"Border Lord"

Darkness had us covered when we split from Minnesota in the morning
In the rain
Black as I was feeling and the street was slick and shiny as a snake
Each of us was a-humming to a half forgotten echo
Hangin' over in the brain
Tappin' time and thinking of the time we never had the time to take

Losing to the rising cost of living high and loving hard
And leavin' every yesterday behind
Learning every bridge you cross, is burning down before you're off and running
Like the devil just in time

[Chorus:]
Breakin' any ties before they bind you
Taking any comfort you can find
Running like you're running out of time
Take it all-take it easy-till it's over-understanding
When you're headin' for the border lord
You're bound to cross the line

Good lookin' women every time you stumble
Waitin' there to catch you when you fall
Gettin' to you bad enough to let em
Keep you backin' up till just before your back's against the wall

[Chorus:]
Breakin' any ties before they bind you
Takin' any comfort you can find
Runnin' like you're runnin' out of time
Take it all-take it easy-till it's over-understanding
When you're headin' for the border lord
You're bound to cross the line

fox69 · 21.05.2015

"Bread For The Body"

"Bread For The Body"

I built my own chains in the land of the free
A slave to a job that meant nothing to me
With three shiny new cars and a split level home
To furnish the tomb I was dying to own

Then one day I wakened with fear in my eye
Aware of a world that was passing me by
And I knew that my savings of silver and gold
Would mean not a thing when my body was cold

[Chorus]
Because life is a song for the dying to sing
And it’s got to have feeling to mean anything
And a man can get by without silver or gold
With bread for the body and song for the soul

I’m living my life by the lesson I’ve learned
And not looking back at the bridges I’ve burned
Cause the time that we travel from cradle to grave
Was meant to be spent and not meant to be saved

And I know there are some who will say I’m a fool
But I don’t give a damn for the people that do
Cause if down in a dungeon is where they belong
Well, that’s their misfortune and none of my own

[Repeat Chorus]

fox69 · 21.05.2015

"Breakdown (A Long Way From Home)"

"Breakdown (A Long Way From Home)"

The clubs are all closed, and the ladies are leavin'
There's nobody nobody knows on the street
A few stranded souls standin' cold at the station
And nowhere to go but to bed and to sleep

Lord would you look at you
Now that you're here ain't you
Proud of your peers
And the long way you've come

All alone all the way
On your own, who's to say
That you've, thrown it away for a song
Boy you've, sure come a long way from home

So it's so long so many so far behind you
Fair-weather friends that you no longer know
You still got the same lonely songs to remind you
Of someone you seemed to be, so long ago

Lord would you look at you
Now that you're here ain't you
Proud of your peers
And the long way you've come

All alone all the way
On your own, who's to say
That you've, thrown it away for a song
Boy you've, sure come a long way from home

fox69 · 21.05.2015

"Broken Freedom Song"

"Broken Freedom Song"

Got a song about a soldier,
ridin' somewhere on a train
empty sleeve pinned to his shoulder
and some pills to ease the pain

Started drinkin' in El Paso,
he was drunk in San Antone,
tellin' strangers who were sleepin'
how he hated goin' home

Just a simple song of freedom,
he was never fightin' for,
no one's listenin' when you need 'em,
ain't no fun to sing that song no more.

Got a song about a sister,
waitin' somewhere by the phone,
for some man who never missed her,
ever since he come and gone

And its harder for a woman,
with a baby on the way,
that's the price of bein' human,
when you're poor enough to pay,

So she listens to the freedom,
in the silence at her door
no one's missin' till you need 'em
ain't no fun to sing that song no more

Got a song about a Savior,
lookin' lonesome and afraid,
at a city full of strangers,
and a cross He never made

And He's sadder than He's wiser,
and a longer way from home,
and He wonders why His Father,
left Him bleeding and alone.

Just a broken song of freedom,
and the closing of a door,
no one's missin' till you need 'em
ain't no fun to sing that song no more.

fox69 · 21.05.2015

"Burden Of Freedom"

"Burden Of Freedom"

I stand on the stairway
My back to the dungeon
The doorway to freedom
So close to my hand
And voices behind me
So bitterly damn me
For seeking salvation
They don't understand

[Chorus:]
Lord, help me to shoulder
The Burden of Freedom
And give me the courage
To Be What I Can
And When I am Wounded
By those who condemn me
Lord, help me forgive them
They don't understand

Their lonely frustration
Descending to laughter
Erases the footprints
I leave in the Sand
But I'm free to travel
Where no one can follow
In search of the kingdom
They don't understand

[Chorus:]
Lord, help me to shoulder
The Burden of Freedom
And give me the courage
To be what I can
And when I have wounded
The last one who loved me
Lord, help her forgive me
I don't understand.

fox69 · 21.05.2015

"Casey's Last Ride"

"Casey's Last Ride"

Casey joins the hollow sound of silent people walking down
The stairway to the subway in the shadows down below
Following their footsteps through the neon-darkened corridors
Of silent desperation, never speakin' to a soul
The poison air he's breathin' has the dirty smell of dying
'Cause it's never seen the sunshine and it's never felt the rain
But Casey minds the arrows and ignores the fatal echoes
Of the clickin' of the turnstiles and the rattle of his chains

“Oh!” she said, “Casey, it's been so long since I've seen you!”
“Here” she said, “just a kiss to make a body smile!”
“See” she said, “I've put on new stockings just to please you!”
“Lord!” she said, “Casey, can you only stay a while?”

Casey leaves the under-ground and stops inside the Golden Crown
For something wet to wipe away the chill that's on his bone
Seeing his reflection in the lives of all the lonely men
Who reach for any thing they can to keep from goin' home
Standin' in the corner Casey drinks his pint of bitter
Never glancing in the mirror at the people passing by
Then he stumbles as he's leaving and he wonders if the reason
Is the beer that's in his belly, or the tear that's in his eye

“Oh!” she said, “Casey, it's been so long since I've seen you!”
“Here” she said, “just a kiss to make a body smile!”
“See” she said, “I've put on new stockings just to please you!”
“Lord!” she said, “Casey, can you only stay a while?”

fox69 · 21.05.2015

"Castaway"

"Castaway"

One day as I was sailing on the Caribbean Sea
I spied a little fishing vessel drifting aimlessly
Her sails were torn and tattered
And her wheel was spinning free
I told myself that little boat sure looks a lot like me

[Chorus]
‘Cause like a ship without a rudder
I’m just drifting with the tide
And each day I’m drawing closer to the brink
Just a speck upon the waters
Of an ocean deep and wide
I won’t even make a ripple when I sink

As I pulled along beside her and I climbed upon her deck
In the silence I could feel the hair a rising on my neck
I thought as I walked through the empty quarters down below
That lost abandoned vessel was the sister of my soul

In the emptiness my footsteps were like echoes in a cave
That seemed to say there ain’t no way to leave this floating grave
And when I scrambled to the deck my ship had vanished like a dream
Leaving nothing but the lonely waves to hear my silent scream

[Repeat Chorus]

fox69 · 21.05.2015

"Chase The Feeling"

"Chase The Feeling"

It takes one to know one, baby
I know how you feel
You got your hunger
And some problems that are real

And you're dealing with some demons
Who are driving you insane
And I've seen them drag you screaming
Down the hallways of your brain

And you got loaded again
Ain't you handsome when you're high
Nothing matters
Chase the feeling 'til you die

Let it right on in there, baby
Let it run your life
Let it run your children off
And let it run your wife

Let it take the joy you love
And turn it to despair
You knew you knew better, baby
You just didn't care

And you got loaded again
Ain't you handsome when you're high
Nothing matters
Chase the feeling 'til you die

Blame it on the moonlight, baby
Think of number one
Tangled up in two
When you were shining like the sun

With a pretty piece of hunger
Who was younger than her eyes
On the scale of cosmic thunder
It's a wonder you're alive

And you got loaded again
Ain't you handsome when you're high
Nothing matters
Chase the feeling 'til you die