From the recording The Ruins of Our Age
Just a simple love song, written with Eric Ramsey.
Lyrics
For A Song
©2020 Michael R. J. Roth & Eric Ramsey
You sang of your love for a cowboy
In a Red River coffeeshop
How he broke your heart and left you
With nothing but a song
In your tie-dye shirt and your dangling beads
Like your teardrops he left in the dirt
You hung out your pain on guitar strings
With a voice that would crack in the places that hurt
Chorus:
But if you could sing a song for me
I’d rewrite the tale of your life
A man doesn’t have to be mean to be strong
I’d put joy in your voice, make you my wife,
For a song
I was enchanted by the melody
The fragile notes like finest glass
So tender, sung so breathlessly
I wanted it to last
Well, I’ve got no horse and no saddle
Just a garden with flowers of dreams
Watered by colors of passion that you’ll
Be singing those songs to me
Chorus:
And if you could sing a song for me
I’d rewrite the tale of your life
A man doesn’t have to be mean to be strong
I’d put joy in your voice, make you my wife,
For a song