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Casey’s Last Ride
Casey joins the hollow sound Still she said,
of silent people walking down it’s so blessed good to feel your body!
The stairway to the subway Lord! she said
in the shadows down below; Casey it’s a shame to be alone!
Following their footsteps through
the neon-darkened corridors Source: LyricFind
Of silent desperation, Songwriters: Kris Kristofferson
never speakin’ to a soul. Casey’s Last Ride lyrics © Sony/ATV Music
The poison air he’s breathin’ has Publishing LLC
the dirty smell of dying
‘Cause it’s never seen the sunshine To listen follow this link....
and it’s never felt the rain.
But casey minds the arrows and Renaissance man, a military officer, an actor, a
ignores the fatal echoes A performer. But when you boil it all down, the
Of the clickin’ of the turnstiles foremost thing Kris Kristofferson may be known for
and the rattle of his chains is his songwriting. As influential and lasting as
. anyone, Kris revolutionized Country music
Oh! she said, Casey songwriting in the 70’s, and had everyone else
it’s been so long since I’ve seen you! stepping up their game to meet the high bar he set.
Here she said, It’s a bar that is still trying to be met by songwriters
just a kiss to make a body smile! today.
See she said,
I’ve put on new stockings just to please you! After leaving the army in 1965, Kristofferson moved
Lord! she said, to Nashville. He worked at a variety of odd jobs while
Casey can you only stay a while? struggling for success in music while burdened with
medical expenses resulting from his son’s defective
Casey leaves the under-ground esophagus. He and his wife soon divorced. He got a
and stops inside the golden crown job sweeping floors at Columbia Recording Studios
For something wet to wipe away in Nashville. He met June Carter there and asked her
the chill that’s on his bone. to give Johnny Cash a tape of his. She did, but Cash
Seeing his reflection in the put it on a large pile with others. He also worked as a
lives of all the lonely men commercial helicopter pilot for south Louisiana firm
Who reach for any thing Petroleum Helicopters International (PHI), based
they can to keep from goin’ home. in Lafayette, Louisiana. Kristofferson recalled of his
Standin’ in the corner days as a pilot, “That was about the last three years
Casey drinks his pint of bitter before I started performing, before people started
Never glancing in the mirror cutting my songs. I would work a week down here [in
at the people passing by south Louisiana] for PHI, sitting on an oil platform
Then he stumbles as he’s leaving and flying helicopters. Then I’d go back to Nashville
and he wonders if the reason at the end of the week and spend a week up there
Is the beer that’s in his belly, trying to pitch the songs, then come back down and
or the tear that’s in his eye. write songs for another week. I can remember “Help
Me Make It Through the Night” I wrote sitting on
Oh! she said, I suppose top of an oil platform. I wrote “Bobby McGee” down
you seldom think about me, here, and a lot of them in south Louisiana.
Now she said,
now that you’ve a fam’ly of your own; (Source Wikipedia)
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