Set my sails out on a sunny day

Pretty soon I was on my way

Though what for sure it was

I could not say



Two thousand reasons

Maybe more

Eight hundred chances on faraway shores

Searching for something

Searching for more

Deep down inside me burning

Reasons for the learning



Now you can pick up reasons so easily

Where you've been and where you've got to be

And when the truth don't show you'll always see

Lots of reasons



And pretty soon you've got a heavy load

Dragging those reasons down an endless road

I got to thinking and I got to see

So many reasons coming at me



The one that leaves you high and dry

He says you still owe him, there's a reason why

He'll leave you crying till the tears run dry

He's the one, always the one with all the reasons

So many reasons the come and they go

The reasons for them I'll never know

I've seen so many, they've come and they've gone

I've turned all mine in and I'm happy with one



So don't talk of friendship, do it to me

Make me an offer and make it for free

Don't give me reasons 'cos I wrote that song

I only want love now so I'll just take the one