1.

Risky Bizness

Kris Kristofferson

© Resaca Music, BMI

Eight ounce gloves now it's title time
You can use your choosen tools and I'll choose mine
I'm afraid we've gone and laid it on the line
It's a risky bizness

Oh in the garden time to go show
Them crazies who's the one who runs the show
While they gamble in your corner for your robe
It's a risky bizness

And the best that you can do is buy
Some time till they can find somebody better
It don't matter what they call you
When you know you've been the best that you could be

Give 'em hell boy while you can
Make 'em fight to take the title you defend
Till they nail you with some double-cross again
It's a risky bizness

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2.

How Do You Feel About Foolin' Around

Kris Kristofferson - Stephen Bruton - Mike Utley

© Jody Ray Publ, BMI / Resaca Music, BMI

So many people got so many lines
They've all been tried and it's true
They've all got so many reasons for changin' your mind
And there ain't none of 'em new

But there's just so little distance between me and you
I think we're two of a kind
We don't do nothing you don't wanna do
And I won't tell you no lies

So tell me how do you feel about foolin' around
Down from your head to your toes
Ain't nothin' realer than right here and now
If that's as far as it goes
And it goes and it goes it goes ha-ha
[ piano ]
Hey you'll never miss nothing we've never known
You'll never know till you try
Hey we can take it or leave it alone
But we got so little time

So tell me how do you feel about foolin' around...
So tell me how do you feel about foolin' around...

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3.

Forever In Your Love

Kris Kristofferson

© Resaca Music, BMI

Lovers make believe in dreams
Dreamers make believe in making love to last forever
Losers can't believe in anything at all
Hey we never meant to fall so hard but don't be sorry

Think of all the love we made us since you used to be afraid of
Staring at those starry skies above our lives and now you're free to
Be the best that you can be now from here to eternity
And I'll be here forever in your love
[ guitar ]
Nothing ever stays the same
Sometimes lovers even learn to change and turn to strangers
If we never see a single dream come true
Hey I still believe in you and me and I'm not sorry

Think of all the love we made us since you used to be afraid of...

Be the best that you can be now from here to eternity
And I'll be here forever in your love

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4.

Sabre And The Rose

Kris Kristofferson

© Resaca Music, BMI

Feet hit the ground feet leavin' town quicker than a bullet or a knife
Fallin' ain't no fun when you're on the run honey we was running for our life
When Stagger Lee had drunk his fill of moonlight
He turned his burning eyes upon my soul
It's time my God to spend this night with someone else he said
Squeeze a little pleasure from the gold love and glory
We can take it easy when we're old
He said we'll take us into town lay our money down
I'll bring you to the sweetest thing that grows
Because the fairest ones in sight are bloomin' every night
At a tavern called the Sabre and the Rose
We swang into the saddle sick as breathing
And slapped 'em once for pleasure with the reins
The horses snorted frosty in the moonlight
Somethin' dark was singing in my veins older than the voices in my brain

He said this place you're gonna see is why they live and breathe
And sink down a little bit deeper everyday
And sometimes at night when the wind is running right
You can hear it suckin' thirty miles away
Then the light was crimson and I found her all naked and eternal and insane
Secred as the mysteries around her like a veil nothin' but her prison was profane
All we had in common was our chains
Oh burn it down boys burn it to the ground boys burn it on down

Feet hit the ground feet leavin' town quicker than a bullet or a knife
All there was she ran holdin' to my hand runnin' for the river and our life
Slidin' from the moonlight into shadows silent as the river as it flows
Swimmin' to the place they'll never find us all we left behind us was our clothes
And the stories children sing about the Sabre and the Rose

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5.

Spooky Lady's Revenge

Kris Kristofferson

© Resaca Music, BMI

Looky here who's in focus now hard and clear to the bone
No more fears that you'd notice now like a tear cast in stone
And she comes from a spring to a fountain on the wings of her song
She's the king of the mountain she's so good Lord and she's gone

Cause she's a star see her shining
She'll go far for a price
But she's hard in the heart like a diamond
Flashin' fire cold as ice
[ guitar + piano ]
She's a star see her shining...
She's a star see her shining...
She's a star

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6.

Easter Island

Kris Kristofferson - Mike Utley

© Resaca Music, BMI

Guardin' the carcas we stripped and divided
To carve up and covet they wait there alone
Keepin' the secret the rest have forgotten
And starin' in silence from sockets of stone
Built and obeyed with the best of intentions
Stranger than truth and as lost and alone
Stranded like dogs in a star-spangled manger
No good to nothin' not even their own
Holy-o-my-God I can't see the stars in the skies
For the sun in my eyes

She's like a dream that a world quit believin'
Caught in the action back to the sea
How many more might have come from that mountain
Barely the creatures they struggled to be
Surely the death of so grand and illusion
Left us with legends too great to ignore
Stone cut survivors of ancient dimensions
Lost in the wonder they came to explore
Holy starlight far brighter than the sun in your eyes
Singin' Thy will be gone
Holy starlight far brighter than the sun in your eyes
Singin' Thy will be gone

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7.

Bigger The Fool (The Harder The Fall)

Kris Kristofferson

© Resaca Music, BMI

Hey doesn't it still look easy as it did to you
Hey wasn't it true after all
I couldn't help myself girl and I can't blame you
The bigger the fool the harder the fall

Livin' on old illusions and some make believe
That mattered to me most of all
Closin' my eyes to changes I've refused to see
The bigger the fool the harder the fall

Somewhere in your future on the far side of your world
You might read my writing on the wall
Think of the easy dreamer who believes in you
The bigger the fool the harder the fall
[ guitar ]
If somebody you wake up in a world that's turned on you
And nobody answers when you call
Hey think of the crazy dreamer who believes in you
The bigger the fool the harder the fall
Think of the easy dreamer who believes in you
The bigger the fool the harder the fall

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8.

Lay Me Down (And Love The World Away)

Kris Kristofferson

© Resaca Music, BMI

I'm not mad at nothing baby try to understand
I don't care what happened yesterday
I'm just glad that you're so glad to see my face again
That's all that's important anyway

And I believe the hardest part is over
Wakin' up without you everyday
Nothin' matters now that we're together
Lay me down and love the world away
[ guitar ]
We've no way of knowing baby how it's gonna end
Maybe we'll be sorry one more time
It just feels so good to me to feel so good again
I'll just lay my chances on the line

Cause I believe the hardest part is over...
I believe the hardest part is over...

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9.

Fighter

Kris Kristofferson

© Resaca Music, BMI

I seen an old fighter tired and in trouble
Who just couldn't take anymore
Something inside him kept fightin' to finish
With only his feet on the floor
Lord I know that it's worth any price you could pay
To see truth in whatever disguise
But I'd've played double for one look of pleasure
A piece of relief in his eyes

Ain't that clown laughin' like crazy
Ain't his eyes empty and deep
Don't he sound sad as a baby
When she cries out in her sleep

We measured the space between Waylon and Willie
And Willie and Waylon and me
But there wasn't nothin' like Billy Joe Shaver
What Billy Joe Shaver should be
When he showed up sick later all bit by a spider
And crazy to look in the eye
He put on a show that was sad as it should've been
And nobody even knew why

Ain't that clown laughin' like crazy...

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10.

Living Legend

Kris Kristofferson

© Resaca Music, BMI

Was it bitter then with our backs against the wall
Were we better men than we'd ever been before
Say if she came again today would you still answer to the call
Tell the truth my friend don't it matter anymore

We were simple men by her side when she was born
It was simple then like the freedom when you fall
And we were smaller then you see but soon we gathered like a storm
They don't understand what that thunder meant at all
[ piano ]
Was he crucified was he done in by the law-men
Are you satisfied that he'll never ride again
Some people say he got away they say he never died at all
If that story's true does it bother you my friend

Was it bitter then with our backs against the wall...

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