There ain’t no reason things are this way
It's how they always been and they intend to stay
I can't explain why we live this way,
We do it everyday.

Preachers on the podium 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
window and a pigeon with a broken wing
You can spend you whole life working for something,
Just to have it taken away
People walk around pushing back their debts
Wearing pay checks like necklaces and bracelets
Talking 'bout nothing, not thinking 'bout death
Every little heartbeat, every little breath
People walk a tight rope on a razor’s edge
Carrying their hurt and hatred and weapons
It could be a bomb, or a bullet, or a pen
Or a thought, or a word, or a sentence

There ain't no reason things are this way
It's how they always been and they intend to stay
I don’t know why I say the things that I say,
But I say them anyway

But love [bad word] set me free
Love [bad word] set me free, I do believe
Love [bad word] set me free, I know it will
Love [bad word] set my 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, it's fill with coal, sufficating slow
The wind blows wild and i may move
But politicians lie and I am not fool
You don't need no reason or a three piece suit, to argue the [bad word] The air on my skin and the world under my toes
Slavery is stitched into the fabric of my clothes
Chaos [bad word] wherever I go
Love, I try to follow

Love [bad word] set me free
Love [bad word] set me free, I do believe
Love [bad word] set me free, I know it will
Love [bad word] set my free, yes.

There ain't no reason things are this way
It's how they always been and they intend to stay
I can't explain why we live this way,
We do it everyday.