Chords for Townes Van Zandt - For the Sake of the Song

[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Why does she sing _ [Em] _ sad [B] songs to me?
I'm not the one _ _ _ she tenderly [E] brings.
Her soft [B] sympathy I've just begun.
[F#] _ [B] _ _ _ [F#] She'll see my way clear, this plain of a stuff I will [B] follow. _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#] I can lay down a tear, but me, just a tear and [B] that's all.
_ _ _ _ _ [E] What does she want me to [B] do?
_ _ [E] She says that she [F#] knows, that moments are rare [E] and I suppose [B] that it's true.
_ _ [E] Then all she goes [F#] to say is that I don't care and [F#m] she _ [E] knows [B] that I do. _ _ _ _ _ _
[F#] Maybe she just has to sing for the sake of [B] the song. _ _ _ _ _ _
[F#] Who do I think that I am to decide that [B] she's wrong?
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[B] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _
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She'd like to think I was cruel, [E] but she knows that's a lie [B] for I would be _ _ _ _ no more than a tomb.
[E] If I allowed her to [B] cry over me, _ _ _ _ [F#] all my sorrow is real.
Even though I can't change [B] my _ plans, _ _ _ [F#] she can see how I feel and I know that she'd [B] understand. _ _ _ _ _
[E] Does she actually think I'm [B] to blame? _
_ [E] Does she really believe [F#] that some word of mine could [E] relieve all [B] her pain? _
[E] Can't she see that she grieves [F#] just because she's been blindly [E] deceived?
_ [B] Who is she? _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] Maybe she just has to sing for the sake of the [B] song. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] Who do I think that I am to decide that she's [B] wrong? _ _
_ [E] _ [A#] _ _ [G#m] _ [B] _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ [B] _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Oh, but nothing's what it seems.
[E] Maybe she'll start [B] someday to realize.
_ _ _ If she abandons her [E] dreams, then all the words she can [G#m] say are only [B]
lies.
_ _ _ [F#] Oh, when will she see that the gain is only the [B] lose?
_ _ _ _ [F#] All that she offers me are chains and I got to [B] refuse. _
_ _ _ _ [E] But it's only to herself that [B] she's lying.
_ [E] She likes to pretend [F#] there's something that she [E] should defend with her [B] pride.
_ [E] I don't intend [F#] to stinge in me [E] the print from whom [B] she must hide.
_ [F#] _ [B] _ _ _
_ [F#] Maybe she just has to sing for the sake of the [B] song. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#] Who do I think that I am to decide that she's [B] wrong? _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#] _ She just has to sing for the sake of the [B] song.
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [N] _