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The Junkie and The Juicehead, Minus Me From the album Kristofferson Intro: D Verse 1: D G I was stumble bummin' down them neon Music City sidewalks A G D With a junkie and a juicehead who had problems of their own D G Stuck with luck that kept me standin' just a step away from starvin' A G D And some talent that I swore I'd show before I'd go back home G Eighty days out of the army makin' neither love nor money D E A And my only set of clothes was gettin' closer to the bone D G Then the junkie placed an order with the prophet on the corner A G D While he told us of the soul that he'd been sellin' for a song
Chorus: G D He said my fortune was my future, but I let it slip away A G D Slowly smokin' myself broke on eighty cigarettes a day G D Findin' out that crime ain't all there is that doesn't pay A N.C. And writin' songs for no one but myself and the juicehead, who said, G D "If I can read my fortune in the bottom of a glass, A D And I can see it's time for me to make my last request: G D Will you fill my grave with whiskey when I'm laid away to rest, A D So the boys can say I drank my way to hell?" Verse 2: D G Well, I drank the whole thing over puttin' one and two together A G D And it added up to more of what I didn't want to be D G I ain't blamin' Music City, but it's only gonna see me A G D One more workday and a wake up and the time it takes to leave G 'Cause I got a dirty picture of what could have been my future D E A In a prophet pushin' daydreams on the corner for a fee D G And a wino lookin' lonely at a bottle gettin' empty A G D And a hungry lookin' junkie huntin' tea and sympathy Chorus: G D And I bet that junkie's laughin' at the life he threw away A G D While he's smokin' hisself broke on eighty cigarettes a day G D Pleadin' down the prophet to a price that he can pay A N.C. And writin' words that no one's gonna see but the juicehead, who said G D Every empty bottle is his private crystal ball A D Where he stares into the future, findin' nothin' there at all, G D Which is all I'll miss tomorrow when them neon shadows fall A D A D
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