DUNCAN SHEIK LYRICS - Reasons For Living

"Reasons For Living"



Everyone's looking, everyone hides

Everyone's telling everyone lies

We're changing the subject, we're turning away

Away from the heart of it all



You say you are happy, do you think this is fun?

Well, it's only a firefly to the light of the sun

You say this is living, you feel so alive

Well, you know everything dies



Even my wonder, even my fear

Only amount to a couple of tears

There is a rhythm, it's near and it's far

It flows through the heart of us



Welcome to another day

It don't seem that different 'cause nothing has changed

Try to remember, try to remember

When we were just running in place



Reasons for living, never come cheap

But even your best ones can put me to sleep

What I am saying or trying to say

Is that there must be a better way



Even my wonder, even my fear

Only amount to a couple of tears

There is a rhythm, it's near and it's far

It flows through the heart of us



It's already in you, it's already there

You may disagree but I don't really care

Did you ever find out, did you ever find out

What's at the heart of us?

Did you ever find out, did you ever find out

What's at the heart?



Tell me all your wildest dreams

You don't really care, you don't know what they mean

Raiding the closets, skeleton keys

You know it's easier than you think



Even my wonder, even my fear

Only amount to a couple of tears

There is a rhythm, it's near and it's far

It flows through the heart of us



Reasons for living are all very fine

Leaving me cold though they're not really mine

Did you ever find out, did you ever find out

What's at the heart of us?

I don't know, I don't know