To The Artist-Jerry Jeff Walker

[ti:To The Artist] [ar:Jerry Jeff Walker] [al:Hill Country Rain] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]To The Artist - Jerry Jeff Walker (杰里·杰夫·沃克) [00:09.47]This song is a letter sung to a special friend of mine [00:15.09] [00:18.02]One who stopped his singing somewhere back along the line [00:23.08] [00:26.45]I wondered if he'd had enough of the rip-offs and the jive [00:32.00] [00:34.75]Or did he sing his song one night and lose the will to write [00:40.25] [00:43.43]It never was a business deal [00:45.37] [00:46.43]This thing with your guitar [00:48.24] [00:50.74]It always seemed more a dance done deep inside your heart [00:56.76] [00:59.20]Tonight I wonder if it's true [01:01.32] [01:02.25]Like we felt it at the start [01:04.44] [01:06.62]That an artist truly does it best when he does it from the heart [01:12.79] [01:15.35]It seems to be much more than an art when the art you sell is you [01:21.16] [01:22.90]Be careful how you play the game or else the game plays you [01:29.28] [01:35.52]In the old days we'd stay up nights and laugh until we cried [01:41.64] [01:43.63]You said songs don't belong to us we just bring some thoughts to light [01:49.06] [01:51.81]The rule of thumb is never give the truth away to rhyme [01:57.55] [01:59.73]And a man can't lie when he tries to sing it betrays him every time [02:05.66] [02:07.78]We really write to understand more about ourselves [02:13.38] [02:16.12]And if we're lucky maybe then we touch someone else [02:21.55] [03:00.30]Well [03:00.68]I just got back from Europe friend where they hung on every word [03:05.73] [03:08.29]It made me feel a little better about my chosen line of work [03:13.66] [03:16.28]They asked me if I knew you wrote a lot these days [03:21.96] [03:24.14]I told 'em all I know is that you rarely ever play [03:29.51] [03:32.13]We start out singing what we like and just give it all away [03:37.87] [03:40.05]And wind up hating what we play and sit begging to be paid [03:45.36] [03:48.16]So let me say in closing friend [03:50.66] [03:51.97]I want you to know [03:53.78] [03:55.46]I understand how hard it was to let your music go [04:01.02] [04:03.89]An artist must decide which parts to leave in and take out [04:09.38] [04:11.38]And if he no longer plays the game that's what the game's about