The Reason Why chords by Ron Sexsmith

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Intro 1

Verse 1
D 
As all the
rooms are full of empties
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D 
The wine attempts to tempt me
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Would you help me disappear?
D 
And we'll let the path go hungry
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And head at last to country
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G 
Or a small town away from here

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Verse 2

And maybe there we'll finally see,

there is no need to try

All our lives for a reason

why

Interlude 1

'Cause when the

Verse 3
moon is glowing dimly
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D 
Upon our hopeful chimney
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Trouble simply reappears
D 
To throw a monkey wrench in
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D 
And hold the world's attention
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With a show of surreal fear

Verse 4
Em 
Hoping for an answer,
C 
Bm 
I glance up to indifferent skies
F# 
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D 
There's no  reply or a reason why,
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D 
reason why
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Verse 5
C 
All we would hear is a
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D 
deafening silence
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D 
Hollywood tears in frivolous times
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F# 
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Oh, to be near your love

Interlude 2

Verse 6
D 
You can wonder where the time went
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D 
or what it was it all meant
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It's been a life spent wondering why
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C 
Looking for a name or coat
to pin the blame on
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F# 
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D 
G 
I'm done sighing for a reason why
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D 
Reason why, reason why,
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D 
reason why
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