Ain't No Reason-Brett Dennen

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[00:00.00]Ain't No Reason - Brett Dennen
[00:13.95]There ain't no reason things are this way
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[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
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[00:23.84]We do it every day
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[00:27.18]Preachers on the podium speaking of saints
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[00:30.25]Prophets on the sidewalk begging for change
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[00:33.51]Old ladies laughing from the fire escape
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[00:37.05]Cursing my name
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[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
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[00:46.60]You can spend your whole life working for something
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[00:50.17]Just to have it taken away
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[00:53.50]People walk around pushing back their debts
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[00:56.67]Wearing paychecks like necklaces and bracelets
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[00:59.83]Talking about nothing not thinking about death
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[01:03.29]Every little heartbeat every little breath
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[01:06.60]People walk a tightrope on a razors edge
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[01:09.67]Carrying their hurt and hatred and weapons
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[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
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[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
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[01:26.05]I don't know why I say the things I say
[01:29.38]But I say them anyway
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[01:31.73]But love will come set me free
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[01:38.64]Love will come set me free I do believe
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[01:45.28]Love will come set me free I know it will
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[01:51.83]Love will come set me free yes
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[01:59.45]Prison walls still standing tall
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[02:02.39]Some things never change at all
[02:05.14]
[02:05.96]Keep on building prisons gonna fill them all
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[02:08.99]Keep on building bombs gonna drop them all
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[02:12.44]Working your fingers bare to the bone
[02:15.38]Breaking' your back make you sell your soul
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[02:18.81]Like a lung it's filled with coal
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[02:22.17]Suffocating slow
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[02:25.46]The wind blows wild and I may move
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[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
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[02:35.28]To argue the truth
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[02:38.63]The air on my skin and the world under my toes
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[02:42.01]Slavery stitched into the fabric of my clothes
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[02:45.32]Chaos and commotion wherever I go
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[02:48.27]Love I try to follow
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[02:50.85]Love will come set me free
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[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
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[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