For The Sake Of The Song - Van Zandt Townes, ukulele chords

Published: 2016-10-06 16:48
Selection chords: Tsumugi Nakata

B                 E7                  B
Why does she sing her sad songs for me Iʼm not the one,
B                 E7               B
To tenderly bring her soft sympathy Iʼve just begun,
F#                                                   B
To see my way clear and itʼs plain if I stop I will fall,
F#                                                          B
I can lay down a tear for her pain, just a tear and thatʼs all.
E7                         B
What does she want me to do?
E7                             F#
She says that she knows that moments are rare,
           E7             B
And I suppose that itʼs true.
      E7              F#                       E7            B
Then on she goes to say I donʼt care and she knows that I do.

Chorus:
         F#                                             B
Ah, but maybe she just has to sing for the sake of the song,
     F#                                             B
And who do I think that I am to decide that sheʼs wrong.

Sheʼd like to think I was cruel, but she knows thatʼs a lie for I would be,
No more than a tool if I allowed her to cry all over me,
Oh my sorrow is real even though I canʼt change my plans,
If she could see how I feel then I know that sheʼd understand.
Oh does she actually think Iʼm to blame?
Does she really believe that some word of mine can relieve all her pain?
Canʼt she see that she grieves just because sheʼs been blindly deceived by her pain?

Chorus.

Ah, but nothingʼs what it seems, maybe sheʼll start someday to realize,
If she abandons her dreams, then all the words she can say are only lies,
Ah when will she see that to gain is only to lose?
All that she offers me are her chains, I got to refuse.
Oh but itʼs only to herself that sheʼs lied.
She likes to pretend itʼs something that she should defend with her pride,
I donʼt intend to stand here and be the friend from who she must hide.

Chorus.