The Reason

by Aceyalone

From the album: A Book of Human Language

Track 11 of 20 on A Book of Human Language (1998).

Duration: 1:21

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Lyrics for The Reason

[Aceyalone] Music please... Yeah You want to know the reason You want to know the reason The reason is we gotta have those guidelines I'ma break the guidelines I'ma move the barriers I'ma cross over the barricade And we gotta have balance The reason is balance The reason is everything gotta be weighed out and smoothed out And be in perfect harmony wit' each other You know want I'm saying The energy gotta be there You know what I'm saying The reason is the hurt The reason is the hold The walls, the windows, they got eyes, they got ears The jabberwocky, the test of the manhood We got the grandfather clock We gotta have time We gotta have the reason We gotta know the march We gotta know about the faces, face the faces We gotta have the hunt, the hunter has to die, the hunted has to die So we have the thief in the night We gotta have the thief The reason is the thief The reason is it's all human language It's all human language It's for you, it's for him, it's for her, it's for all of us It's human language That's the reason You want to know the reason That's the reason

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More from A Book of Human Language

  1. Forward
  2. The Guidelines
  3. Contents
  4. The Balance
  5. The Energy
  6. The Hurt
  7. The Hold
  8. The Walls and Windows
  9. The Jabberwocky
  10. The Grandfather Clock
  11. The Reason
  12. The March
  13. The Vision
  14. The Faces
  15. The Hunt Preclude
  16. The Hunt
  17. The Catch
  18. The Thief in the Night
  19. Human Language
  20. Afterward