For The Sake of The Song — текст песни (Townes Van Zandt)

By townes van zandt



Why does she sing

Her sad songs for me,

Im not the one

To tenderly bring

Her soft sympathy

Ive just begun

To see my way clear

And its plain,

If I stop I will fall

I can lay down a tear

For her pain,

Just a tear and thats all.





What does she want me to do?

She says that she knows

That moments are rare

I suppose that its true

Then on she goes

To say I dont care,

And she knows

That I do





Maybe she just has to sing, for the sake of the song

And who do I think that I am to decide that shes wrong.





Shed like to think that Im cruel,

But she knows thats a lie

For I would be

No more than a tool

If I allowed her to cry

All over me.





Oh my sorrow is real

Even though

I cant change my plan

If she could see how I feel

Then I know

That shed understand





Oh does she actually think Im to blame?

Does she really believe

That some word of mine

Can relieve

All her pain?

Cant she see that she grieves

Just because shes been blindly deceived

By her shame?





Nothins what it seems,

Maybe shell start someday

To realize

If she abandons her dreams,

Then all the words she can say

Are only lies

When will she see

That to gain

Is only to lose?

All that she offers me

Are her chains,

I got to refuse





Oh but its only to herself that shes lied

She likes to pretend

Its something that she must defend,

With her pride

And I dont intend

To stand her and be the friend

From whom she must hide