Album Name

Kristofferson

Artist

Kris Kristofferson

Genre

컨트리

Release Date

1970

Release Agency

Monument/Legacy

The Junkie And The Juicehead, Minus Me - Kris Kristofferson
I was a stumble bummin' down the
neon Music City sidewalks
With the Junkie and the
Juicehead who had problems of
their own
Stuck with luck it kept me
standin' just a step away from
starvin'
And the talent that I swore I'd
show before I'd go back home
Ninety days I looked the army
makin' neither love nor money
And my only set of clothes was
gettin' closer to the bone
And the Junkie placed an order
with the Prophet on the corner
And he told him of the soul that
he'd been sellin' for a song
He said my future was my fortune
but I let it slip away
Slowly smokin' myself broke on
eighty cigarettes a day
Findin' out that crime ain't all
there is that doesn't pay
And writin' words that no one's
gonna see but did you said it
who said it
I can read my fortune in the
bottom of a glass
And I can see it's time for me
to make my last request
Won't you fill my grave with
whiskey when I'm laid away to rest
So the boys can say I drank
myself to dead
Well I drank the whole thing
over puttin' one and two together
And it added up to more of what
I didn't want to be
I ain't blamin' Music City but
it's only gonna see me
One more day and the wake up and
the time it takes to leave
Cause I got a dirty picture of
what could have been my future
In a Prophet pushin' day dreams
on a corner for a fee
And the wino lookin' lonely at a
bottle gettin' empty
And a hungry lookin' junkie
huntin' tea in sympathy
And I bet that junkie's laughin'
after the life he threw away
Slowly smokin' himself broke on
eighty cigarettes a day
Pleadin' down the Prophet to a
price that he can pay
And writin' words that no one's
gonna see but did you said it
who said it
Every empty bottle is my private
crystal ball
And starin' into the future
findin' nothin' there at all
Which is what I'll miss tomorrow
when the neon shadows fall
On the Junkie and the Juicehead
minus me