[Tucked into his notebook for safekeeping]
Aint no reson
There aint no reson things are this way.
Its how they always been and they intend to stay.
I cant explane why we live this way, we do it everyday.
Preechers on the podium speakin of saints in sayance,
Profits on the sidewalk beggin 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 pigin with a broken wing,
You can spend your whole life workin for somthing
Just to have it taken away.
People walk around pushing back their dets,
Wering pay checks like necklaces and braselets,
Talking bout 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 wepons.
It could be a bomb or a bullit or a pen
Or a thought or a word or a sentense.
There aint no reson things are this way.
Its how they 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 beleve
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 buildin prisons, gonna fill them all,
Keep on buildin bombs, gonna drop them all.
Working your fingers bear to the bone,
Braeking your back, make you sell your soul.
Like a lung thats filled with coal, sufocatin slow.
The wind blows wild and I may move,
The politishuns lie and I am not fooled.
You dont need no reaon or a 3 peice suit to argue the truth.
The air on my skin and the world under my toes,
Slavery stiched into the fabric of my clothes,
Chaos and commoshion werever I go, love I try to follow.
Love will come set me free
Love will come set me free, I do beleve
Love will come set me free, I know it will
Love will come set me free, yes.
There aint no reson things are this way
Its how they always been and they intend to stay
I cant explane why we live this way, we do it everyday.
When i go
hold this heart when i go
sing my song when i go
sing it loud when i go
sing it proud when i go
some people are lerning to die and some people are yerning to fly and
some people are lerning to die and some people are yerning to fly and
some people are lerning to die and some people are yerning to fly
but i know theyd all be yerning to fly
when my, when my, when my soul
takes leve of this world
when i leve this flesh and these bones
oh i swear to you that you wont have to go alone
Hold this heart when i go
sing my song when i go
sing it loud when i go
sing it proud when i go
some people are lerning to die and some people are yerning to fly and
some people are lerning to die and some people are yerning to fly and
some people are lerning to die and some people are yerning to fly
but i know theyd all be yerning to fly
the 1st time my heart colided with yours
i know i felt the osean tickel the erths sandy shores
but changes come and we all know that we cant, we cant stop them
but i hold these memores and i will never drop them
and ill watch over you
ill watch over you
oh my care will cover you just like the moon can do
ill watch over you
ill watch over you
oh my care will cover you just like the moon can do
Hold this heart when i go
sing my song when i go
sing it loud when i go
sing it proud when i go
some people are lerning to die and some people are yerning to fly and
some people are lerning to die and some people are yerning to fly and
some people are lerning to die and some people are yerning to fly
but i know theyd all be yerning to fly
oh the thought of death has yet to make me afraid
coz i will march right off this world into the next like its a grand parade
but if you feel lonely just like you want to run and hide
then ill wrap my wings around you and give you strenth and I wont leve your side
and ill watch over you
ill watch over you
oh, my care will cover you just like the moonll do
ill watch over you
ill watch over you
you know id love to get to heaven
you know id love to see the view
but first i think ill stay and watch over you
oh, ill watch over you
ill watch over you
When you feel it
Mama got to worryin coz her boy left home in a hurry again
Her photographs are fading, she keeps a box in the closet full of negitives
Well, i left a note on the floor in my room
ive always been stubborn and late to bloom
i had to lay down my load, my burdens are my own
Its a coming of age when you feel it you know
When you feel it you know, yes
When you feel it you know
and i know, i know
I was longing on a short summer night when I had the urge to leve
I went out to find my muse with a 8th in my pocket and a craving for some cajun blues, what you said?
I was folowing my folies when i saw her aboard the river queen
I was corting my Creole lady all the way to New Orleans
But i was swooned by a luminus tune so i climed the roof and gave that woman my croon
I had to tell her all i know, my business is my own
Its a coming of age when you feel it you know
When you feel it you know
When you feel it you know
And i know, i know
When you feel it
When you feel it you know
When you feel it
When you feel it you know
When you feel it
When you feel it you know
When you feel it
When you feel it
Well, mama got to worryin she said "Now boy, i stay up late wondering where you been!
Oh, soon your gonna have to give in no you cant live forever the way that you been."
Oh, mama im not tryin to do no wrong i had to lern this is the way i get along
Its a life that i chose, my reasons are my own
Its a coming of age when you feel it you know
When you feel it you know
When you feel it you know
When you feel it you know
When you feel it you know
When you feel it you know
When you feel it you know
I know, i know
When you feel it you know
When you feel it you know
When you feel it you know
Stayaway stars
Yeah, your upset
So am u, so am i
I somtimes forget just how seldom you cry
And thus how much i hate it when you do
Yeah, your a mess, more or less
So am i
I sometimes forget there are stars in the sky
- So nonchalont, thogh thoroghly thought thrugh
Say your OK
And ill say “so am i”
And well call it a day
So goodnight, so goodbye
Its dark enough to disapper into
What sorry sights we somtimes are
These sameshit nights under stayaway stars
These sameshit nights in the saddest bars
The city lights and the stayaway stars
Blessed
I welcome the sun,
the clouds and rain,
the wind that sweeps the sky clean
and lets the sun shine again.
this is the most magnifisint life has ever been.
here is heaven and earth
and the brilliant sky in between.
blessed is this life
and im gonna selabrate being alive.
blessed is this life
and im gonna selabrate being alive
I dwell in the darkness
I live in the light
I sleep in the afternoon
and become the noise in the night
I trespass in temtation
suffered in sacrifice
but i awake each day with a new sunrise
blessed is this life
and im gonna selabrate being alive.
blessed is this life
and im gonna selabrate being alive
[[All songs by the wonderful Mr Brett Dennen, apart from 'Stayaway Stars' which is The Lucksmiths. ♥]]