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[Verse 1]
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If you're nobody's business or you're front page news
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Folk Rock, Country or Delta Blues, tell your truth however you choose
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And do it all for the sake of the song
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Yeah, hitchhike, and bus ride and rental car, living rooms coffee house 
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and rundown bars
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Ten thousand people or alone under the stars, its all for the sake of the 
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song

[Chorus 1]
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And there's a man who wrote "Your Cheatin' Heart", now he's lying to us too
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And he plays it on a stolen harp, that's soaked in hundred proof
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And there's one who might be happy but for the writer's curse
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She's lost the crowd's attention at the forty second verse

[Verse 2]
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And it's the travelling salesman, the girl next door
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From an empty room to the third encore, less is less until more is more
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And it's all for the sake of the song

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And there's the young man on the marquee, He's the son of some well known
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And his father bought the tour bus, so he could strike out on his own

[Chorus 2]
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And there's the brooding contradiction, he's holding Van Gogh's ear
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And he's taped it to his guitar, in the hope someone will hear
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It's black berets and Nudie Suits, the next big thing or getting
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back to you roots
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High tops, flannel and duct tape boots
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And it's all for the sake of the song

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[Verse 3]
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And there's the mystic, there's the legend, and there's the best that's ever been
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And there's the voice of a generation who wants to pass this way again
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And there's record deals and trained seals, and puppets on a string
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And they're all just trying to figure out what makes the caged bird sing

[Chorus 3]
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It's lights, camera, on with the show, lifetime to get ready, now go cat go

Where it all ends, nobody knows
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But it's all for the sake of the song
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So if you're nobody's business or you're front page news
                       Am               Am
Folk Rock, Country or Delta Blues, Tell your truth however you choose
          Em                        Am
And do it all for the sake of the song