Sake of the Song-Hayes Carll

[ti:] [ar:Hayes Carll] [al:Lovers and Leavers] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.15]Sake of the Song - Hayes Carll [00:02.40]Written by：Darrell Scott/Hayes Carll [00:03.46] [00:19.49]If you're nobody's business or you're front page news [00:23.62] [00:24.75]Folk Rock Country or Delta Blues [00:27.95] [00:28.74]Tell your truth however you choose [00:32.57]And do it all for the sake of the song [00:35.82] [00:39.03]Yeah hitchhike and bus ride and rental cars [00:43.19] [00:43.93]Living rooms coffee houses rundown bars [00:47.57] [00:48.37]Ten thousand people or alone under the stars [00:52.53]It's all for the sake of the song [00:55.83] [00:58.72]There's the man who wrote [01:01.29]Your Cheatin' Heart [01:03.34]Now he's lying through his tooth [01:06.47] [01:07.36]And he plays it on a stolen harp [01:12.05]That's soaked in hundred proof [01:15.39] [01:16.05]And there's one who might be happy [01:19.67] [01:20.49]But for the writer's curse [01:24.20] [01:24.92]She lost the crowd's attention [01:28.45]By the forty second verse [01:33.10] [01:33.64]It's the travelling salesman the girl next door [01:38.10]On the empty room to the bird on the corner [01:42.38]Less is less until more is more [01:46.12]And it's all for the sake of the song [01:50.32] [02:07.68]And there's the young man on the marquee [02:11.27] [02:11.93]He's the son of some well known [02:15.32] [02:16.28]And his father bought the tour bus [02:20.32]So he could strike out on his own [02:24.26] [02:24.79]And there's the brooding contradiction [02:28.35] [02:29.09]Yeah he's holding Van Gogh's ear [02:32.49] [02:33.42]And he's taped it to his guitar [02:37.67]In the hope someone will hear [02:42.09]It's black berets and Nudie Suits [02:46.71]The next big thing or getting back to your roots [02:51.12]High tops flannels or duct tape boots [02:55.01]And it's all for the sake of the song [02:58.65] [03:15.93]And there's the mystic there's the legend [03:20.24]There's the best that's ever been [03:23.44] [03:24.50]And there's the voice of a generation [03:27.95] [03:28.47]Who wants to pass this way again [03:33.00]And there's record deals and trained seals [03:37.63]And puppets on a string [03:40.66] [03:41.52]And they're all just trying to figure out [03:46.02]What makes the caged bird sing [03:51.39] [03:52.47]It's lights camera on with the show [03:56.86]Lifetime to get ready now go cat go [04:00.93] [04:01.51]Where it all ends nobody knows [04:05.40]But it's all for the sake of the song [04:08.82] [04:11.50]So if you're nobody's business or you're front page news [04:16.55] [04:17.45]Folk Rock Country or Delta Blues [04:21.58] [04:22.54]Tell your truth however you choose [04:26.72]And do it all for the sake of the song [04:31.47]