Kris Kristofferson, Rest in Peace

He made the good times better and the hard times easier.  This evening I got the news from Kurt that the best of the best, Kris Kristofferson, has passed.

"To Beat the Devil" 

The old man was a stranger

But I’d heard his words before

Back when failure had me locked out

On the wrong side of the door,

When no one stood beside me

But my shadow on the floor

And lonesome is more than a state of mind. 

See the devil haunts a hungry man

If you don’t want to join him,

You gotta beat him.

I ain’t saying I beat the devil,

But I drank his beer for nothing

And then I stole his song …