For the Sake of the Song Lyrics & Tabs by Counting Crows
For the Sake of the Song
guitar chords lyrics
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.
Oh now 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, oh 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 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 fool if I allowed her to cry all over me,
Well all my sorrow is real, even though, I can't change my plans,
But she knows that's a lie for I would be,
No more than a fool if I allowed her to cry all over me,
Well all 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.
Or does she actually think I'm to blame?
Does she really believe,
That some word of mine can relieve all of her pain?
Can't she see that she grieves,
Just because she's been blindly deceived by her shame?
Oh but maybe she just has to sing, for the sake of the song,
And 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,
And when will she see that to gain is only to lose?
And 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 that's something that she must defend,
With her pride and I don't intend,
To stand here and be the friend from whom she must hide,
Well maybe she just has to sing, for the sake of the song,
And who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong,
Maybe she just has to sing, for the sake of the song.
