Hayes Carll - Sake of the Song lyrics

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 pa** 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