Ain't No Reason - Brett Dennen
There
ain't no reason things are this way.
It's how they always been and they
intend to stay.
I can't explain why we live this way.
We do it every
day.
Preachers on the podium speaking of saints.
Prophets on the
sidewalk begging for change.
Old ladies laughing from the fire
escape,
Cursing my name.
I gotta a basket full of lemons and they all
taste the same,
A window and a pigeon with a broken wing,
You can spend
your whole life working for something,
Just to have it taken
away.
People walk around pushing back their debts,
Wearing paychecks
like necklaces and bracelets,
Talking about nothing, not thinking about
death,
Every little heartbeat, every little breath.
People walk a
tightrope on a razors edge.
Carrying their hurt and hatred and weapons.
It
could be a bomb, or a bullet, or a pen,
Or a thought, or a word, or a
sentence.
There ain't no reason things are this way.
Its how they've
always been and they intend to stay.
I don't know why I say the things I
say,
But I say them anyway.
But love will come set me free.
Love
will come set me free, I do believe.
Love will come set me free, I know it
will.
Love will come set me free, yes.
Prison walls still standing
tall.
Some things never change at all.
Keep on building prisons, gonna
fill them all.
Keep on building bombs, gonna drop them all.
Working
your fingers bare to the bone.
Breaking' your back, make you sell your
soul.
Like a lung, it's filled with coal,
Suffocating slow.
The
wind blows wild and I may move.
But politicians lie and I am not
fooled.
You don't need no reason or a three piece suit,
To argue the
truth.
The air on my skin and the world under my toes
Slavery stitched
into the fabric of my clothes
Chaos and commotion wherever I go,
Love I
try to follow.
Love will come set me free
Love will come set me free,
I do believe
Love will come set me free, I know it will
Love will come set
me free, yes
There ain't no reason things are this way.
Its how
they've always been and they intend to stay.
I can't explain why we live this
way.
We do it every day.
There
ain't no reason things are this way.
It's how they always been and they
intend to stay.
I can't explain why we live this way.
We do it every
day.
Preachers on the podium speaking of saints.
Prophets on the
sidewalk begging for change.
Old ladies laughing from the fire
escape,
Cursing my name.
I gotta a basket full of lemons and they all
taste the same,
A window and a pigeon with a broken wing,
You can spend
your whole life working for something,
Just to have it taken
away.
People walk around pushing back their debts,
Wearing paychecks
like necklaces and bracelets,
Talking about nothing, not thinking about
death,
Every little heartbeat, every little breath.
People walk a
tightrope on a razors edge.
Carrying their hurt and hatred and weapons.
It
could be a bomb, or a bullet, or a pen,
Or a thought, or a word, or a
sentence.
There ain't no reason things are this way.
Its how they've
always been and they intend to stay.
I don't know why I say the things I
say,
But I say them anyway.
But love will come set me free.
Love
will come set me free, I do believe.
Love will come set me free, I know it
will.
Love will come set me free, yes.
Prison walls still standing
tall.
Some things never change at all.
Keep on building prisons, gonna
fill them all.
Keep on building bombs, gonna drop them all.
Working
your fingers bare to the bone.
Breaking' your back, make you sell your
soul.
Like a lung, it's filled with coal,
Suffocating slow.
The
wind blows wild and I may move.
But politicians lie and I am not
fooled.
You don't need no reason or a three piece suit,
To argue the
truth.
The air on my skin and the world under my toes
Slavery stitched
into the fabric of my clothes
Chaos and commotion wherever I go,
Love I
try to follow.
Love will come set me free
Love will come set me free,
I do believe
Love will come set me free, I know it will
Love will come set
me free, yes
There ain't no reason things are this way.
Its how
they've always been and they intend to stay.
I can't explain why we live this
way.
We do it every day.