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Line 2: − − ==Beat the Devil== − <!-- Claiming fair use here --> − − It was winter time in Nashville, down on music city row.<br> − And I was lookin' for a place to get myself out of the cold.<br> − To warm the frozen feelin' that was eatin' at my soul.<br> − Keep the chilly wind off my guitar. <br> − <br> − My thirsty wanted whisky; my hungry needed beans, <br> − But it'd been of month of paydays since I'd heard that eagle scream.<br> − So with a stomach full of empty and a pocket full of dreams,<br> − I left my pride and stepped inside a bar.<br> − <br> − Actually, I guess you'd could call it a Tavern:<br> − Cigarette smoke to the ceiling and sawdust on the floor;<br> − Friendly shadows.<br> − <br> − I saw that there was just one old man sittin' at the bar.<br> − And in the mirror I could see him checkin' me and my guitar.<br> − An' he turned and said: "Come up here boy, and show us what you are."<br> − I said: "I'm dry." He bought me a beer.<br> − <br> − He nodded at my guitar and said: "It's a tough life, ain't it?"<br> − I just looked at him. He said: "You ain't makin' any money, are you?"<br> − I said: "You've been readin' my mail."<br> − He just smiled and said: "Let me see that guitar.<br> − "I've got something you oughta hear."<br> − Then he laid it on me: <br> − <br> − "If you waste your time a-talkin' to the people who don't listen,<br> − "To the things that you are sayin', who do you think's gonna hear.<br> − "And if you should die explainin' how the things that they complain about,<br> − "Are things they could be changin', who do you think's gonna care?"<br> − <br> − There were other lonely singers in a world turned deaf and blind,<br> − Who were crucified for what they tried to show.<br> − And their voices have been scattered by the swirling winds of time.<br> − 'Cos the truth remains that no-one wants to know.<br> − <br> − Well, the old man was a stranger, but I'd heard his song before,<br> − Back when failure had me locked out on the wrong side of the door.<br> − When no-one stood behind me but my shadow on the floor,<br> − And lonesome was more than a state of mind.<br> − <br> − You see, the devil haunts a hungry man,<br> − If you don't wanna join him, you got to beat him.<br> − I ain't sayin' I beat the devil, but I drank his beer for nothing.<br> − Then I stole his song.<br> − <br> − And you still can hear me singin' to the people who don't listen,<br> − To the things that I am sayin', prayin' someone's gonna hear.<br> − And I guess I'll die explaining how the things that they complain about,<br> − Are things they could be changin', hopin' someone's gonna care.<br> − <br> − I was born a lonely singer, and I'm bound to die the same,<br> − But I've got to feed the hunger in my soul.<br> − And if I never have a nickle, I won't ever die ashamed.<br> − 'Cos I don't believe that no-one wants to know.<br> − Line 130:
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