REASON TO BELIEVE

Live 07 Dec 1984 version



[Spoken intro:] This is, this is uh, this is a song about blind faith and its tragic results.

Seen a man standin' over a dead dog lyin' by the highway in a ditch
He's lookin' down kinda puzzled pokin' that dog with a stick
He's got his car door flung open he's standin' out on Highway 31
Like if he stood there long enough that dog'd get up and run
Man it struck me kinda funny, seemed kinda funny sir to me
How at the end of every hard earned day you can find some reason to believe

Now Mary Lou loved Johnny with a love mean and true
She said "Baby I'll work for you every day and bring my money home to you"
One day he up and left her and ever since that
She waits down at the end of that dirt road for young Johnny to come back
Man it struck me kinda funny, seemed kinda funny sir to me
How at the end of every hard earned day you can find a reason to believe

Take a baby to the river, Kyle William they called him
They wash the baby in the water, they take away little Kyle's sins
In a whitewash shotgun shack an old man passes away
They take his body to the graveyard and over him they pray
Lord now won't you tell us, tell us what does it mean
Why at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe

Congregation gathers down by the riverside
Preacher stands with his Bible, a groom stands waitin' for his bride
Congregation gone, the sun sets behind a weepin' willow tree
The groom stands alone and watches the river rush on so effortlessly
Yeah and he's wonderin' where can his baby be
Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe

Yeaaah
Whoa!

Bless you


Info

The above lyrics are for the live 07 Dec 1984 performance of REASON TO BELIEVE at Leon County Civic Center in Tallahassee, FL, during the Born In The U.S.A. Tour.

Ticket stub for the 07 Dec 1984 show at Leon County Civic Center, Tallahassee, FL
Ticket stub for the 07 Dec 1984 show at Leon County Civic Center, Tallahassee, FL

Available Versions

List of available versions of REASON TO BELIEVE on this website:

REASON TO BELIEVE [Album version]
REASON TO BELIEVE [Live 19 Aug 1984 version]
REASON TO BELIEVE [Live 16 Nov 1984 version]
REASON TO BELIEVE [Live 18 Nov 1984 version]
REASON TO BELIEVE [Live 19 Nov 1984 version]
REASON TO BELIEVE [Live 07 Dec 1984 version]
REASON TO BELIEVE [Live 07 Jan 1985 version]
REASON TO BELIEVE [28 Mar 1988 sound-check version]
REASON TO BELIEVE [Live 16 Nov 1990 version]
REASON TO BELIEVE [Live 17 Nov 1990 version]
REASON TO BELIEVE [Live 18 Feb 1996 version]
REASON TO BELIEVE [Live 15 May 2005 version]
REASON TO BELIEVE [Live 25 Jun 2005 version]
REASON TO BELIEVE [Aimee Mann and Michael Penn's cover version]

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