Sake Of The Song Lyrics - Lovers And Leavers - Hayes Carll

If you're nobody's business or you're front page news 

Rock, Country or Delta Blues, Tell your truth however you choose 

And do it all for the sake of the song 

Yeah, hitchhike, and bus ride and rental car, living rooms coffee house and rundown bars 

Ten thousand people or alone under the stars, all for the sake of the song 

And there's a man who wrote "Your Cheatin' Heart", now he's blind to it's truth 

And he plays it on a stolen harp, his soul is hundred proof 

And there's one who might be happy with a foreign baggar's purse 

She's lost the crowd's attention at the forty second verse 

And it's the travelling salesman, the girl next door 

On the empty room to the bird on the corner, less is less until more is more 

And it's all for the sake of the song 

And there's the young man on the marquee, He's fond of somewhere unknown 

And his father bought the two of us so he could strike out on his own 

And there's the brooding contradiction, he's holding Van Gogh's ear 

And he's taken to his guitar, in the hope someone will hear 

It's life back stage and Nudie Suits, and the next big thing will get 'em back to you roots 

High five flannel and duct tape boots 

And it's all for the sake of the song 

And there's the mystic, there's the legend, and there's the best that's ever been 

And there's the voice of a generation who wants to pass this way again 

And there's record deals and trained seals, and puppets on a string 

And they're all just trying to figure out what makes the caged bird sing 

It's lights, camera, on with the show, lifetime to get ready, now go cat go 

Where it all ends, nobody knows 

B it's all for the sake of the song 

So if you're nobody's business or you're front page news 

Rock, Country or Delta Blues, Tell your truth however you choose 

And do it all for the sake of the song