This Song Is For You Lyrics - Merle Haggard

This song is for you, you know who you are 

I won't embarrass you for callin' out your name 

You're here every night, several night of drinks 

Wearin' your superficial smile 

You still wear the wedding band and you left hard work in hand 

For a memory of a man who's chain and bound 

Lord knows you need a man and an understandin' hand 

Before you run completely out of love 

You can't stay in love with a memory 

You can't stay in love with a dream 

Yet you've fallen in love with the picture on the wall 

The sad part is that the picture is not of me 

That cold December day, they took her man away 

Never dreamin' of a gentle heart they've grown 

Now she waits by the phone, she waits there all alone 

But the only one who ever calls is me 

Now I'm a prisoner of a slave to one way love 

And I'd wish they let him go so I'd be free 

Break this chains that bind and release this heart of mine 

Before I run completely out of love 

You can't stay in love with memory 

You can't fall in love with a dream 

Yet you've fallen in love with the picture on the wall 

The sad part is that the picture is not of me