For The Sake Of The Song
フォー・ザ・セーク・オブ・ザ・ソング

TITLE: For The Sake Of The Song（フォー・ザ・セーク・オブ・ザ・ソング）
AUTHOR: Townes Van Zandt（タウンズ・ヴァン・ザント）
PERFORMER: Townes Van Zandt（タウンズ・ヴァン・ザント）

Why does she sing
Her sad songs for me I’m not the one
To tenderly bring
Her soft sympathy I’ve just begun

To see my way clear
And it’s plain if I stop I will fall
I can lay down a tear
For her pain just a tear and that’s all

What does she want me to do
She says that she knows that moments are rare
I suppose that it’s true
Then on she goes to say I don’t care
And she knows that I do

Maybe she just has to sing
For the sake of the song
Who do I think that I am
To decide that she’s wrong

She’d like to think that I’m cruel
But she knows that’s a lie for I would be
No more than a tool
If I allowed her to cry all over me

My sorrow is real
Even though I can’t change my plans
If she could see how I feel
Then I know that she’d understand

Oh, does she actually think I’m to blame
Does she really believe
That some word of mine could relieve all her pain
Can’t she see that she grieves
Just because she’s been blindly deceived by her shame

Maybe she just has to sing
For the sake of the song
Who do I think that I am
To decide that she’s wrong

Oh, but nothin’s what it seems
Maybe she’ll start someday to realize
If she abandons her dreams
Then all the words she can say are only lies

Oh when will she see that to gain
Is only to lose
All that she offers me are her chains
And I got to refuse

Oh but it’s only to herself that she’s lied
She likes to pretend
There’s something that she should defend with her pride
I don’t intend to stand here and be the friend
From whom she must hide

Maybe she just has to sing
For the sake of the song
Who do I think that I am
To decide that she’s wrong
Oh, maybe she just has to sing
For the sake of the song

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