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Reason To Believe

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Bruce Springsteen (Bruce Springsteen)

I came to Springsteen later on, long after most people. It was discovering the songs of his “Nebraska” album that did it for me. I love the way these songs observe without judging. They take you right there, to where you can stand right next to the people he’s singing about and feel what they feel. Like a lot of Springsteen, the stories in “Reason To Believe” will have different meanings, depending on who is doing the listening, or the singing, for that matter. — AN

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
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

Struck me kinda funny, seemed kinda funny sir to me
Still at the end of every hard 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 everyday 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

Struck me kinda funny, funny yea indeed
How at the end of every hard earned day, you can find some reason to believe

Take a baby to the river Kyle William they called him
Wash the baby in the water, take away little Kyle’s sin
In a whitewash shotgun shack, an old man passes away
Take the body to the graveyard and over him they pray

Lord won’t you tell us, tell us what does it mean
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, groom stands waitin’ for his bride
Congregation gone, and the sun sets behind a weepin’ willow tree
Groom stands alone and watches the river rush on so effortlessly

And he’s wonderin’, where can his baby be
Still at the end of every hard earned day, people find some reason to believe