Live 07 Jan 1985 version
[Spoken intro:] Thanks. We're gonna be playing for a long time tonight so you guys can sit down ??? and uh, we'll do all the stuff. Guess uh, it's a hard world to find anything to hold on to, and uh, people wanna believe in something so bad, and sometimes they believe in anything.
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 people 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 some reason to believe
They take a baby to the river, Kyle William they called him
They wash the baby in the water, 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
How at the end of every hard earned day you can find some reason to believe
Congregation gathers down by the riverside
Preacher stands with his Bible, the 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
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
The above lyrics are for the live 07 Jan 1985 performance of REASON TO BELIEVE at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, IN, during the Born In The U.S.A. Tour.
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