《For the Sake of the Song》歌词

[00:00:00] For The Sake Of The Song - Townes Van Zandt

[00:00:18] Why does she sing her sad songs for me

[00:00:23] I'm not the one

[00:00:27] Tenderly bring her soft sympathy

[00:00:32] I've just begun

[00:00:37] To see my way clear

[00:00:39] And it's plain

[00:00:40] If I stop I will fall

[00:00:46] I can lay down a tear for her pain

[00:00:49] Just a tear and that's all

[00:00:56] What does she want me to do

[00:01:00] She says that she knows

[00:01:02] That moments are rare

[00:01:04] I suppose that it's true

[00:01:10] Then on she goes

[00:01:12] To say I don't care

[00:01:14] Ah she knows

[00:01:16] That I do

[00:01:22] Maybe she just has to sing for the sake of the song

[00:01:31] Who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong

[00:01:54] She'd like to think I was cruel

[00:01:58] But she knows that's a lie

[00:02:00] For I would be

[00:02:04] No more than a tool

[00:02:07] If I allowed her to cry

[00:02:09] All over me

[00:02:13] Oh my sorrow is real

[00:02:15] Even though

[00:02:17] I can't change my plan

[00:02:22] She could see how I feel

[00:02:25] Then I know

[00:02:26] She'd understand

[00:02:32] Oh does she actually think I'm to blame

[00:02:37] Does she really believe

[00:02:39] That some word of mine

[00:02:41] Could relieve

[00:02:43] All her pain

[00:02:46] Can't she see that she grieves

[00:02:49] Just because she's been blindly deceived

[00:02:53] By her shame

[00:02:57] Oh be maybe she just has to sing for the sake of the song

[00:03:07] Who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong

[00:03:30] Oh but nothin's what it seems

[00:03:34] Maybe she'll start someday to realize

[00:03:40] If she abandons her dreams

[00:03:43] Then all the words she can say are only lies

[00:03:49] Oh when we she see that to gain

[00:03:53] Is only to lose

[00:03:58] All that she offers me are her chains

[00:04:02] And I got to refuse

[00:04:08] Oh but it's only to herself that she's lied

[00:04:13] She likes to pretend

[00:04:15] There's something that she should defend

[00:04:20] With her pride

[00:04:23] And I don't intend

[00:04:25] Stand her and be the friend

[00:04:28] From whom she must hide

[00:04:34] Maybe she just has to sing for the sake of the song

[00:04:43] Who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong

[00:04:52] Oh but maybe she just has to sing for the sake of the song