Brett Dennen – Aint No Reason (Guitar)

Capo 5
Key
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Versions (3)

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Chords

so you can play it however you'd like (chords are above). After the intro the finger picking pattern is very similar for the rest of the song. I think all C chords are played the same with the 3,0h2 3 2p0 (the second C chord here))
     C           F                    C            G        Am
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|------------0------2------------------------------0---------2--------------|
D|------0h2---------3----3------0h2----2p0-----0-------0------2--------------|
A|---3--------------------3-----3----3------------2------2----0--------------|
E|---------------1--------------------------3--------------------------------|

       G        F               C           G
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|----------0------------2-------------------------0---0---------------------|
D|-----0-----------3--------3----0h2---2p0-------0---------------------------|
A|--------2-----------3------3---3----3--------2-----2-----------------------|
E|---3----------1----------------------------3-------------------------------|

             F                        C
There ain't no reason things are this way.

                      G                             Am
It's how they always been and they intend to stay.

   G          F                  C
I can't explain why we live this way.

G                   Strum and rest
We do it every day.

                 F                  C
Preachers on the podium speaking of saints.

                 G                   Am
Prophets on the sidewalk begging for change.

  G        F                      C
Old ladies laughing from the fire escape,

           G
Cursing my name.

                         F                         C
I gotta a basket full of lemons and they all taste the same,

              G                      Am
A window and a pigeon with a broken wing,

G                  F                       C
You can spend your whole life working for something,

                 G
Just to have it taken away.

           F                          C
People walk around pushing back their debts,

               G                  Am
Wearing paychecks like necklaces and bracelets,

G                  F                      C
Talking about nothing, not thinking about death,

              G                      Am
Every little heartbeat, every little breath.

G             F                     C
People walk a tightrope on a razors edge.

               G                   Am
Carrying their hurt and hatred and weapons.

G             F                       C
It could be a bomb, or a bullet, or a pen,

                   G
Or a thought, or a word, or a sentence.

               F                      C
There ain't no reason things are this way.

                       G                       Am
Its how they've always been and they intend to stay.

G            F                      C
I don't know why I say the things I say,

               G
But I say them anyway.

                          Am    F G
But love will come set me free.

                      Am      F  G
Love will come set me free, I do believe.

                      Am       F      G
Love will come set me free, I know it will.

                      Am      F     G
Love will come set me free, yes.

         F                  C
Prison walls still standing tall.

           G                Am
Some things never change at all.

G                F                         C
Keep on building prisons, gonna fill them all.

                 G
Keep on building bombs, gonna drop them all.

               F              C
The wind blows wild and I may move.

                G                Am
But politicians lie and I am not fooled.

 G                F                      C
You don't need no reason or a three piece suit,

              G
To argue the truth.

               F                           C
The air on my skin and the world under my toes

        G                               Am
Slavery stitched into the fabric of my clothes

G         F                    C
Chaos and commotion wherever I go,

              G
Love I try to follow.

                          Am    F G
But love will come set me free.

                      Am      F  G
Love will come set me free, I do believe.

                      Am       F      G
Love will come set me free, I know it will.

                      Am  F     G
Love will come set me freeeee, yes.

               F                      C
There ain't no reason things are this way.

                       G                       Am
Its how they've always been and they intend to stay.

   G      F                      C Strum through to the end
I can't explain why we live this way.
We do it every day. ************************************ | h Hammer-on | p Pull-off ************************************