Love's Got Its Reasons                   copyright 2004 Stan Lyness
brisk country, male voice
                          LEAD-IN: ( C  G )  D   G   G
V1:
               G                               ( C               G )
               Back when I was your age, son, an artist stole my heart,
             ( C           G )          ( G )         D
   she had her own kind of beauty and her own sort of smarts,
               G                            ( C             G )
     she could tell you just when Jupiter was due to leave Aquarius
             ( C                  Em )        ( D )              G   
           and why that's when we had to find a shaman priest to marry us.
               C                         ( C            G )
        Now my fam'ly was too redneck to appreciate her talents,
             ( C                  Em )           ( Em )          D
          they thought I ought to run before goin' even more off-balance.
               G                             ( C           Em )
           But I was young an' dumb an' wasn't ready to discover
             ( C              G )     ( D )         G
           how love's got its reasons unknown to the lover.
                                                                          G7

CHORUS:
               D                                ( C          G )
               Love's got its reasons, but you'll never understand 'em.
             ( C        Em7 )      D
           Any logic to love might just as well be random.
               Bm7                          ( C                 Em )
         Seems love's blind in one eye and it can't see out the other.
             ( C              G         D7           G
         Yeah, love's got its reasons unknown to the lover.
                                            ( C  G )  ( C  G )  ( D )  G   G

V2:
         Turns out we did get married, turns out my folks were right,
        but we got ourselves untangled after seven years of fights.
          Then crawlin' out of that, I swore love nevermore would hold me
           but love had its agenda, and no one coulda told me
             I ever coulda won the heart of someone like your mother.
         Seems love's got its reasons unknown to the lover.

CHORUS

V3:
           Now son, to us your girlfriend may seem awkard and insane,
       but the point of love is not to please your parents nor your brain.
     You gotta listen to your heart, 'cause if you don't take its advice,
  you might as well crouch on a desk attached to monitors and mice.
     So if the sun & moon rise with her, well, go ahead and date her;
        if you find your heart was stupid, you'll just have to fix it later;
    but if you find your heart was wise, you're just lucky, nothin' other,
        'cause love's got its reasons unknown to the lover.