Kris Kristofferson – Sabre And The Rose

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