For The Sake Of The Song - Townes Van Zandt

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[Intro]
        
      

         
[Verse]
             
Why does she s

             
ing her sad so

        
ngs for me I'm

 not the one
             
To tenderly br

             
ing her soft s

    
ympathy I've j

ust begun
             
To see my way 

              
clear and it's

              
 plain if I st

          
op I will fall
             
I can lay down

              
 a tear for he

              
r pain just a 

              
tear and that'

      
s all

             
  What does sh

             
e want me to d

o?
             
She says that 

              
she knows the 

             
moments are ra

             
re I suppose t

         
hat it's true
             
Then on she go

             
es to say I do

              
n't care how s

             
he knows...but

   
 I do


[Chorus]
             
Maybe she just

              
 has to sing f

              
or the sake of

          
 the song
             
Who do I think

              
 that I am to 

             
decide that sh

                       
e's wrong?


[Verse]
              
She'd like to 

             
think I was cr

             
uel but she kn

             
ows that's a l

ie for I would

 be
             
No more than a

             
 tool if I all

            
owed her to cr

y all over me
             
All my sorrow 

              
is real even t

              
ho I can't cha

       
nge my plans
             
If she could s

              
ee how I feel 

              
then I know th

              
at she'd under

    
stand

             
Aw does she ac

              
tually think I

      
'm to blame?
             
Does she reall

              
y believe that

             
 some word of 

             
mine could rel

             
ieve all her p

 
ain?
             
Can't she see 

              
that she griev

             
es just becaus

              
e she's been b

             
lindly deceive

         
d by her shame

?


[Chorus]
             
Maybe she just

              
 has to sing f

              
or the sake of

          
 the song
             
Who do I think

              
 that I am to 

             
decide that sh

                       
e's wrong?


[Verse]
             
Aw but nothin'

              
s what it seem

             
s, maybe she'l

             
l start some d

ay to realize
             
If she abandon

             
s her dreams t

              
hen all the wo

            
rds she can sa

y are only lie

s
             
Aw when will s

              
he see that th

              
e game is only

    
 to lose
             
All that she o

              
ffers me are h

              
er chains and 

              
I've got to re

    
fuse

             
Aw but its onl

              
y to herself t

           
hat she's lied
             
She likes to p

              
retend there's

             
 something tha

              
t she should d

             
efend with her

 
 pride
             
And I don't in

             
tend to stand 

              
here and be th

             
e friend from 

              
whom she must 


hide


[Chorus]
             
Maybe she just

              
 has to sing f

              
or the sake of

          
 the song
             
Who do I think

              
 that I am to 

             
decide that sh

                       
e's wrong?

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