THIS SONG IS FOR YOU
(Freddy Powers / Mary Lou Powers)


Merle Haggard - 1985





This song is for you and you know who you are
Won't embarrass you by callin' out your name
But you're here every night servin' up the drinks
And wearin' your superficial smile

You still wear the wedding band on your left hard-workin' hand
For a memory of a man who's chained and bound
Lord knows you need a man and an understanding hand
Before you run completely out of love

You can't stay in love with a memory
You can't stay in love with a dream
Yet you've fallen in love with a picture on the wall
And the sad part is the picture is not of me

That cold December day they took her man away
Never dreaming of the gentle heart they broke
Now she waits by the phone, she waits there all alone
But the only one who ever calls is me

Now I'm a prisoner of a slave to one way love
I wish they'd let him go, so I'd be free
Break these chains that bind and release this heart of mine
Before I run completely out of love

You can't stay in love with a memory
You can't fall in love with a dream
Yet you've fallen in love with a picture on the wall
And the sad part is the picture is not of me






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - May 2012)