Chords for Brett Dennen - Ain't No Reason (Bing Lounge)

[Gbm] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ [F] _
_ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ [C] _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ [C] _ [Dm]
[C] It's how they always been and [D] they intend to [C] stay.
[Bb] I can't explain [F] why we live this way.
We do it [C] every day.
_ [Bb] Preachers on the podium [F] speaking of saints.
[Cm] Prophets on the sidewalk [Gm] begging for change.
[Bb] Old ladies laughing from [F] the fire escape, [C] cursing my name.
I got [Eb] a basket [Bb] full of yours and [C] they all taste [F] the same.
[C] A window in a pigeon with [D] a broken [Am] wing.
You can [Bb] spend your whole life working [C] for something [F]
[C] just to have it taken away.
And [Bb] people walk around pushing [Cm] back their [F] debts.
[C] Wearing paychecks like [Gm] necklaces [C] and bracelets.
[Bb] Talking about nothing, not [F] thinking about death.
[C] Every little heartbeat, every little breath.
And [Bb] people walk a tightrope [F] on a razor's edge, [Cm] carrying their hurt and [Dm] hatred and weapons.
[Cm] It [Bb] could be a bomb or a bullet [F] or a pen or a [C] thought or a word or a sentence.
There [Bb] ain't no reason things [F] are this way.
It's how [C] they always been and they intend [Gm] to stay.
[C] And I don't [Bb] know why I say the things [F] I say, but I [C] say them anyway.
But love will come [Dm] set me free.
[Bb] _ _
[C] _ _ Love will come [Dm] set me free.
[Bb] I know [C] it will.
Love will [Dm] come set me free.
[Bb] I do [C] believe.
_ Love will [D] come set me free.
[Bb] _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Bb] Prison walls still [F] standing tall.
[C] Some things never [Gm] change at all.
Keep on building prisons, gonna [F] fill them all.
[C] Keep on building bombs, gonna drop them all.
[Bb] Working your fingers spared [F] to the bone.
[C] Breaking your back, make [D] you sell your soul.
[Bb] Like a lung that's filled [F] with cold, [C] suffocating slow.
The [Bb] wind blows wild and [F] I may move.
[C] Politicians lie and I am not fooled.
You don't [Bb] need no race or no [F] three-piece shirt.
To [C] argue the truth.
_ [Bb] Air on my skin and the [F] world under my toes.
[C] Slavery stitched into the [G] fabric of my [C] clothes.
[Bb] Chaos and commotion wherever [C] I go.
Love I'll try to follow.
Love will [Dm] come set me free.
[Bb] _ _
[C] _ _ Love will [D] come set me free.
[Bb] I know [C] it will.
Love will [Dm] come set me free.
[Bb] I do [C] _ believe.
Love will [Dm] come set me [Bb] free. _
[C] It will.
_ There [Bb] ain't no reason [A] things are this [F] way.
It's [C] how they always been and [Gm] it ain't gonna [C] stay.
[Bb] I don't know why I say [C] the things [F] I say.
But I say [C] them anyway.
_ _ Thank [N] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ you.