Star-Crossed

(Kris Kristofferson)



I met her in a shooting gallery speedin' like a goose

Back when both of us was used to making strangers

She shook me down for all I had and ever way but loose

But I was still too juiced to feel the danger.



And anyway now anymore you don't know which is worse

Fallin' out of love or left behind

I just seen the sweetest dreaming wind up like a curse

Maybe one too many times.



But she said I don't want you, baby, I just want someone to hold me

I got too much rock and roll to be a wife

I can't live without the lightnin' and I'm scared of growin' older

So I'm bound to keep on runnin' for my life.



--- Instrumental ---



I've seen her roll herself into a tight and tiny ball

Like a belly-gunner crouchin' in a turret

I said I recognize the symptoms girl I got the same disease

I just haven't got a clue to how to cure it.



And anyway now anymore you don't know who to trust

Love is wild as lust and just as blind

Anyone who'd ever gonna love me better fool me first

And baby maybe I been one too many times.



But she said I don't want you, baby, I just want someone to hold me

I got too much rock and roll to be a wife

I can't live without the lightnin' and I'm scared of growin' older

So I'm bound to keep on runnin' for my life.



You wouldn't read my letter if I wrote you

You ask me not to call you on the phone

But there's something I wanted to tell you

So I wrote it in the verse of this song...