Reason Songtext
von Travis

M
The M-is-Understood
(This is the Reason)
Misfits stand up
(This is the Reason)
Takin em back this whole tape
This is the reason


He′s away at college
After a fallout with his father
His name's Mohammed
And all he really wants is profit
His thoughts he keeps ′em private
As he left his girl behind em
Not the long distance calls
But the distance between the callings
He wrote a letter as poetic as just never
Was he scared of, death
He almost met him on purpose
He lost his purpose
Thought his life wasn't worth it
Mean every night he was hurtin
Felt very much like a burden
To his family, as their scrambling
For things they can't afford
Sleepless nights, no beds
Just a mattress on the floor
His mama bust in the door
Saw her son on the floor
He tried to swallow the whole bottle
They′d rush him to the morgue
Now he′s in Colorado tryin things he never saw
Like shrooms and acid
Not for the high but for the challenge
Conquered his panic
Feeling like he can split the atom
The smartest kid I know but this planet can make you manic and

This is just what happens
When a world comes down I know it's tragic
(I know it I know it I know it)
Thought he was different
But He had questions just the same
Things went wrong lookin for answers to the pain
Deep down you don′t know whether to go left or right
But don't go backwards
(Said don′t go backwards, said you can't go backwards)
Thought they was different
But they had questions just the same
Things went wrong looking for answers to the pain


Now your strength is being weakened
And you goin out on weekends
Swimmin deepest in the deep end
Without a floaty to depend
Currently crazed by events Tryna keep the tide even
Between Faith and Reason,
And that′s the reason
Season by season
Being seasoned by the seasons
Tryin not to be too salty seeing limits to freedom
Used to think that he can beat em now he's tryin not to be 'em
Wearing at his being seein he′s just a human being
But he keeps believing, he′s having trouble believing
Thinkin when he'll be leaving
Will the pearly gates say leave him
Tryna live by the laws even though his faith is weakened
Always be thinkin just tryna make it sink in
Maybe thinkin too deep
Or just deep enough to sink in
Drowning in his own thoughts
The same thoughts that give us art
Too smart for his own good
It strikes fear in his heart like
I know what people think, what am I too God?

This is just what happens
When a world comes down I know it′s tragic
(I know it I know it I know it)
Thought I was different
Had questions just the same
Things went wrong lookin for answers to the pain
Deep down you don't know whether to go left or right
But don′t go backwards
(But don't go backwards, said don′t go backwards)
Thought they were different
Had questions just the same
Things went wrong looking for answers to the pain

Now what we had in common
We was brothers before college
Ate at each others houses
Kicked it on each others couches
Baptist and Islamic come together kick some knowledge
Share about our prophets and talk about our problems
Ain't know he was suicidal didn't know til after he tried to
I was last he told he thought of me as an idol
I don′t know why though,
We pushed each other like some rivals
He kept me honest and all I taught was confidence
Talks of revolution bein our only solution
People said we couldn′t do it
All we wanted to was prove it
Philosophies like Confucius causin all the confusion
Souls becoming polluted we became our own Judas
Started rappin for the truth he found poetry more soothing
These days we get praise from the tools that we usin
They don't know how we do it, barely know how we doin
They don′t get it's our sanity, the reason we pursue it or

This is just what happens
When a world comes down I know it′s tragic
(Said I know it's tragic, I- I know it′s tragic)
Thought we was different
Had questions just the same
But things went wrong lookin for answers to the pain
Deep down you don't know whether to go left or right
But don't go backwards
(Said don′t go backwards, said can′t go backwards)
Thought we were different
Had questions just the same
But things went wrong looking for answers to the pain

Mannn
This really what it's like
Toss around in my mind
It′s what go down
In the cerebral
So I put it through the needle
Man
They don't know what I′m talm bout