“WE’RE BOTH TO BLAME”! by Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’

Tanya Tucker, another very popular American Country Music Star who, in turn, was a favourite “back-up” Artiste of George Jones, one of Country Music’s GREATEST, got together with another superb entertainer Lee Greenwood to “record” the above song. As per usual, the lyrics are simple but most meaningful. Usually, in life, when a marriage or love affair breaks up, one partner always tries to blame the other for it, but looking at “both sides of the coin”, so to speak, BOTH have sometimes erred, and my advice to anyone reading this, who is in a similar sad situation should watch Tanya & Lee tell each other, on this beautiful song :- It is on “You-Tube”.

“WE’RE BOTH TO BLAME”

WE’RE BOTH TO BLAME, FOR THE NIGHTS WE LIE APART
FOR THE HURT INSIDE OUR HEARTS, FOR THE WORDS “IN VAIN”
WE’RE BOTH TO BLAME, FOR THE FOOLISH LINES WE’VE DRAWN
WE CAN PROVE WHO IS RIGHT OR WRONG, BUT WE LOSE, THE SAME

I LIKE TO CLAIM, “THAT’S ALL BECAUSE OF YOU”
YOU LIKE TO BLAME, I’M THE ONE, THE FAULT GOES TO
SO, GOES THE GAME, NEITHER ONE OF US CAN WIN
AND, IF OUR SWEET LOVE SHOULD END, WE’RE BOTH TO BLAME.

I LIKE TO CLAIM, “THAT’S ALL BECAUSE OF YOU”
YOU LIKE TO BLAME I’M THE ONE, THE FAULT GOES TO
SO, GOES THE GAME, NEITHER ONE OF US CAN WIN
AND, IF OUR SWEET LOVE SHOULD END, WE’RE BOTH TO BLAME.

AND, IF OUR SWEET LOVE SHOULD END, WE’RE BOTH TO BLAME.

As I always say, a “Song” is simply a condensed “story”. What an “Author” will say in many
“Paragraphs” in a story, a “Songwriter/Lyricist” will say in a few “Verses” of a song. This, in my opinion, is “LIFE”, this is “MUSIC”. The rest is all only ear-splitting RUBBISH.

Desmond Kelly.
“Star of eLanka”