(y'know but I would have the appropriate pronouns to reflect my chosen gender)
Of course maybe I would be able to write such a song if I too were a Rhodes Scholar outlaw poet Country Singer cum actor who's lived a wanderin' rough life. But it is a song full of emotions and images that I'm sure everyone feels they can relate to at some point in their life. (or maybe that kind of solitary drifter life still has some kind of romantic appeal, at least to me.) No matter- It's The Pilgrim, Chapter 33 from Kris Kristofferson's second album The Silver Tongued Devil and I:
See him wasted on the sidewalk in his jacket and his jeans,
Wearin' yesterday's misfortunes like a smile--
Once he had a future full of money, love, and dreams,
Which he spent like they was goin' outa style--
And he keeps right on a'changin' for the better or the worse,
Searchin' for a shrine he's never found--
Never knowin' if believin' is a blessin' or a curse,
Or if the goin' up was worth the comin' down--
CHORUS:
He's a poet, he's a picker--
He's a prophet, he's a pusher--
He's a pilgrim and a preacher, and a problem when he's stoned--
He's a walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction,
Takin' ev'ry wrong direction on his lonely way back home.
He has tasted good and evil in your bedrooms and your bars,
And he's traded in tomorrow for today--
Runnin' from his devils, Lord, and reachin' for the stars,
And losin' all he's loved along the way--
But if this world keeps right on turnin' for the better or the worse,
And all he ever gets is older and around--
From the rockin' of the cradle to the rollin' of the hearse,
The goin' up was worth the comin' down--
He's a poet, he's a picker--
He's a prophet, he's a pusher--
He's a pilgrim and a preacher, and a problem when he's stoned--
He's a walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction,
Takin' ev'ry wrong direction on his lonely way back home.
There's a lotta wrong directions on that lonely way back home.
Kris Kristofferson- The Pilgrim, Chapter 33 (mp3) buy The Silver Tongued Devil and I
(first in an occasional series, maaaaaybe)
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