Ain't No Reason-Brett Dennen

[ti:Ain't No Reason] [ar:Brett Dennen] [al:The Definitive Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ain't No Reason - Brett Dennen [00:14.03]There ain't no reason things are this way [00:17.33]It's how they always been and they intend to stay [00:20.40]I can't explain why we live this way [00:23.80]We do it every day [00:27.24]Preachers on the podium speaking of saints [00:30.10]Prophets on the sidewalk begging for change [00:33.62]Old ladies laughing from the fire escape [00:36.93]Cursing my name [00:39.86]I gotta a basket full of lemons and they all taste the same [00:43.47]A window and a pigeon with a broken wing [00:46.59]You can spend your whole life working for something [00:50.23]Just to have it taken away [00:53.66]People walk around pushing back their debts [00:56.53]Wearing paychecks like necklaces and bracelets [01:00.06]Talking about nothing not thinking about death [01:03.36]Every little heartbeat every little breath [01:06.65]People walk a tightrope on a razors edge [01:09.75]Carrying their hurt and hatred and weapons [01:13.09]It could be a bomb or a bullet or a pen [01:16.21]Or a thought or a word or a sentence [01:18.68] [01:19.69]There ain't no reason things are this way [01:22.78]It's how they've always been and they intend to stay [01:26.01]I don't know why I say the things I say [01:29.33]But I say them anyway [01:31.88]But love will come set me free [01:38.69]Love will come set me free I do believe [01:44.54] [01:45.35]Love will come set me free I know it will [01:51.90]Love will come set me free yes [01:59.45]Prison walls still standing tall [02:02.50]Some things never change at all [02:06.05]Keep on building prisons gonna fill them all [02:08.23] [02:09.21]Keep on building bombs gonna drop them all [02:12.58]Working your fingers bare to the bone [02:15.52]Breaking' your back make you sell your soul [02:18.82]Like a lung it's filled with coal [02:22.20]Suffocating slow [02:25.60]The wind blows wild and I may move [02:28.54]But politicians lie and I am not fooled [02:32.09]You don't need no reason or a three piece suit [02:35.29]To argue the truth [02:37.51] [02:38.66]The air on my skin and the world under my toes [02:41.80]Slavery stitched into the fabric of my clothes [02:45.39]Chaos and commotion wherever I go [02:48.35]Love I try to follow [02:50.25] [02:50.96]Love will come set me free [02:57.62]Love will come set me free I do believe [03:04.22]Love will come set me free I know it will [03:10.78]Love will come set me free yes [03:18.18]There ain't no reason things are this way [03:21.57]It's how they've always been and they intend to stay [03:24.93]I can't explain why we live this way [03:27.96]We do it every day