Reason to Believe (Electric Nebraska)

[Intro]

Here we go

[Verse 1]

Seen a man standin' over a dead dog

By the highway in a ditch

He's looking down, kinda puzzled

Pokin' that dog with a stick

Got his car door flung open

He's standin' out on Highway 31

Like if he stood there long enough

That dog'd get up and run

[Chorus]

Struck me kinda funny

Kinda funny, yes indeed

How at the end of every hard-earned day

People find some reason to believe

[Verse 2]

Mary Lou loved Johnny

With a love mean and true

She said, "Baby, I'll work for you every day

Bring my money home to you"

One day, he up and lеft her

And ever sincе that

She waits down the end of that dirt road

For young Johnny to come back

[Chorus]

Now it seems kinda funny

Seemed kinda funny to me

How at the end of every hard-earned day

People find some reason to be—

[Verse 3]

Take a baby to the river

Kyle William, they call him

Wash the baby in the water

Take away little Kyle's sins

In a whitewashed shotgun shack

An old man passes away

They take the body to the graveyard

And over him they pray

[Chorus]

Lord, won't you tell us

Tell us, what does it mean?

Still at the end of every hard-earned day

People find some reason to be—

[Verse 4]

Congregation gathers

Down by the riverside

A priest waitin' with his Bible

Groom stands waitin' for his bride

Congregation gone as the sun sets

Behind a weeping willow tree

The groom stands alone on the banks

And watches the river rush on

So effortlessly

[Chorus]

Wonderin'

Where can his baby be?

Still at the end of every hard-earned day

You can find some reason to believe