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Reason To Believe

from Trust by Mark Laurent

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REASON TO BELIEVE

Well a man stands by the roadside
Looks at a dead dog in the ditch
Lord he’s feeling kind of funny
Poking that dog with a stick
He things if he waits there long enough
Maybe that dog will get up and leave
At the end of every hard-earned day people find some reason to believe

My little baby Joni
She loved me mean and true
She said “I’m going to do anything for ya
Bring all my money home to you”
But I went off and left her like a fool
Now I sit along and grieve
Still at the end of every hard-earned day people find some
reason to believe

Now I wake up in the morning
Wipe the sleep out of my eyes
Lord I’m looking out my dirty old window
See the grey clouds of the cold winter skies
And it makes me feel so low-down
Sometimes I wonder why we bother to breathe
Yet at the end of every hard-earned day people find some
reason to believe

Lord every day is different
And no two days are quite the same
Sometimes this world seems so crazy
It’s even hard to remember your own name
Life is such a funny thing
And we’d all like to just get up and leave
But at the end of every hard-earned day people find some reason to believe

I saw the congregation gathered
At the ending of the day
They sit in the golden light of the sunset
Hear the words the preacher man has to say
Some of those things he talks about
You know they seem pretty hard to conceive
Yet at the end of every hard-earned day people find some reason to believe.

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from Trust, released September 12, 1992

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Mark Laurent Auckland, New Zealand

I've been a professional guitarist/singer/songwriter for 40 years, & I've recorded & worked on many albums. I'm also an author with 4 collections of poetry & an illustrated children's storybook published, & I've written articles & reviews for various magazines. I live in Auckland, New Zealand. As well as cafes, concerts & churches I also do a bit of busking to keep in touch with the 'real world'. ... more

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