One of Kristofferson’s defining songs, the mostly spoken track off his debut album tells the story of a songwriter who encounters Beelzebub in a bar and listens as ol’ Satan tries to quash his dreams.
country songwriters go — or songwriters of any genre — Kris Kristofferson was among the most authentic. That’s a word that Nashville loves to freely toss around, but in the case of the Texas native, it was appropriate. Kristofferson knew intimately about the tales of love and loss, peaks and valleys, and drunken nights and regret-filled mornings that he wrote about.
, is one of his most catchy sing-alongs, produced by David Anderle at Sunset Sound in L.A. Start with the very first two lines: “Maybe she was smilin’ in the mirror/Maybe I was too, ’cause I was stoned.” From there, he’s imploring the titular “stranger” to lead him wherever she wants. “And while we lay there, makin’ believe you love me/Stranger, could I believe in you,” he pleads.
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