Karaoké Ain't No Reason Brett Dennen

There ain't no reason things are this way it's how they've always been and they intend to stay

I can't explain why we live this way we do it every day

Preachers on the podiums 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 could 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 'bout death every little heartbeat every little breath

People walk a tight rope on a razors edge carrying their hurt and hatred and weapons

It could be a bomb or a bullet or a pen or thought or a word or a sentence

There ain't no reason things are this way it's 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 that'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 to 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 it's how they've always been and they intend to stay

I can't explain why we live this way we do it every day