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   A window and a pigeon with a broken wing   You can spend your 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've 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 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 bear to the bone,   Breaking your back, make you sell your soul.   Like a lung that’s filled with coal, suffocatin’ slow.   The wind blows wild and I may move   But politician's 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 into 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 always been and they intend to stay   I can't explain why we live this way,   We do it everyday