Ain't No Reason - Brett Dennen

There aint no reason things are this way

Its how they always been and it tends to stay

I can’t explain why we live this way, we do it everyday

Preachers on the podeum speaking of saints

Prophets on the sidewalk begging for change

old ladies laughing from the fire escape cursing my name

I got a basket full of lemons and they all taste the same

A window and a pigeon with a broken wing

You can spend you whole life working for something,

Just to have it taken away

People walk aroun pushing back their debts

Wearing pay checks like necklaces and braceltes

Talking bout nothing, not thinking bout’death

Every little hearbeat, every little breath

People walk a tight rope

On a razors edge

Carrying their hurt and hatrid 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

It’s how they’ve always been

and its tends to stay

I dont know why I say

The things that 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 my free yes.

Prison walls still standing tall

Some things never change at all

Keep on building prisons, gonna fill them all

Keep building bombs, gonna drop them all

Working young fingers bear to the bone

Breaking your back make you sell your soul

Like a lung its filled with cold, sufficating slow

The wind blows wild and I may move

The politions 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

Labor is stiched into the fabric of my clothes

Chaos and comotion 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 my free yes.

There ain’t no reason things are this way

Its how its always been and it tends to stay

I can’t explain why we live this way,

We do it everyday.