Текст песни: Sake of the Song + перевод

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

Folk, 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 cars

Living rooms, coffee houses, rundown bars

Ten thousand people or alone under the stars

It’s all for the sake of the song

There’s the man who wrote «Your Cheatin' Heart»

Now he’s lying through his tooth

And he plays it on a stolen harp

That’s soaked in hundred proof

And there’s one who might be happy

But for the writer’s curse

She lost the crowd’s attention

By the forty second verse

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 the son of some well-known

And his father bought the tour bus

So he could strike out on his own

And there’s the brooding contradiction

Yeah, he’s holding Van Gogh’s ear

And he’s taped it to his guitar

In the hope someone will hear

It’s black berets and Nudie Suits

The next big thing or getting back to your roots

High-tops, flannels or duct tape boots

And it’s all for the sake of the song

And there’s the mystic, there’s the legend

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

But it’s all for the sake of the song

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

Folk, Rock, Country or Delta Blues

Tell your truth however you choose

And do it all for the sake of the song

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