Ain't No Reason-Brett Dennen

[ti:Ain't No Reason] [ar:Brett Dennen] [al:So Much More (Special Edition)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ain't No Reason - Brett Dennen [00:13.95]There ain't no reason things are this way [00:16.53] [00:17.38]It's how they always been and they intend to stay [00:20.44]I can't explain why we live this way [00:22.97] [00:23.84]We do it every day [00:24.92] [00:27.18]Preachers on the podium speaking of saints [00:29.12] [00:30.25]Prophets on the sidewalk begging for change [00:32.71] [00:33.51]Old ladies laughing from the fire escape [00:36.20] [00:37.05]Cursing my name [00:37.96] [00:39.79]I gotta a basket full of lemons and they all taste the same [00:43.45]A window and a pigeon with a broken wing [00:45.95] [00:46.60]You can spend your whole life working for something [00:49.34] [00:50.17]Just to have it taken away [00:51.53] [00:53.50]People walk around pushing back their debts [00:55.74] [00:56.67]Wearing paychecks like necklaces and bracelets [00:58.81] [00:59.83]Talking about nothing not thinking about death [01:02.22] [01:03.29]Every little heartbeat every little breath [01:05.84] [01:06.60]People walk a tightrope on a razors edge [01:08.99] [01:09.67]Carrying their hurt and hatred and weapons [01:11.90] [01:12.98]It could be a bomb or a bullet or a pen [01:16.33]Or a thought or a word or a sentence [01:18.78] [01:19.61]There ain't no reason things are this way [01:22.34] [01:22.93]It's how they've always been and they intend to stay [01:25.43] [01:26.05]I don't know why I say the things I say [01:29.38]But I say them anyway [01:30.69] [01:31.73]But love will come set me free [01:34.08] [01:38.64]Love will come set me free I do believe [01:43.50] [01:45.28]Love will come set me free I know it will [01:50.42] [01:51.83]Love will come set me free yes [01:55.85] [01:59.45]Prison walls still standing tall [02:01.57] [02:02.39]Some things never change at all [02:05.14] [02:05.96]Keep on building prisons gonna fill them all [02:08.16] [02:08.99]Keep on building bombs gonna drop them all [02:11.63] [02:12.44]Working your fingers bare to the bone [02:15.38]Breaking' your back make you sell your soul [02:18.29] [02:18.81]Like a lung it's filled with coal [02:21.40] [02:22.17]Suffocating slow [02:23.40] [02:25.46]The wind blows wild and I may move [02:27.85] [02:28.60]But politicians lie and I am not fooled [02:32.21]You don't need no reason or a three piece suit [02:34.69] [02:35.28]To argue the truth [02:36.52] [02:38.63]The air on my skin and the world under my toes [02:41.33] [02:42.01]Slavery stitched into the fabric of my clothes [02:44.67] [02:45.32]Chaos and commotion wherever I go [02:47.69] [02:48.27]Love I try to follow [02:49.88] [02:50.85]Love will come set me free [02:52.78] [02:57.70]Love will come set me free I do believe [03:02.37] [03:04.13]Love will come set me free I know it will [03:09.40] [03:10.67]Love will come set me free yes [03:16.54] [03:18.17]There ain't no reason things are this way [03:20.81] [03:21.59]It's how they've always been and they intend to stay [03:24.11] [03:24.98]I can't explain why we live this way [03:27.25] [03:27.95]We do it every day