Akala, Megan Quashie - Another Reason lyrics

Water cuts rock, so which has more force?
As water shapes the land
It's still willing to change it's course
So can't even change your own
Minds? Usually change nothing
Can't ever blame your own
Mind? Always blame something
But in failure, hides opportunity
In divided communities still
Residing is unity
Waiting to show it'self soon as
We're ready to see it truth is always there
Soon as we are ready to be it
So we can keep pretending what's
Real is just the senses
But it is all the same when
You're looking with stronger lenses
So concerned with images
But it's there in the words
Images are just imagination
Thats whats so absurd


Have you heard the Pig now knows it's fat?
And the Zebra is confused because
It's white and it's black? So what's fact
Right and exact when everything changes
Change the way you look at the world
The world changes

Instead of reasons to die
Find a reason to live
Instead of reasons to fight
Find a reason to give
Instead of reasons to talk
Find a reason to sing
Instead of reasons to take
Find a reason to bring

Instead of reasons for I
Find a reason for we
Instead of reasons to try
Find a reason to be
Instead of reasons to look
Find a reason to see
People, I am pleading, find another reason

We are so busy noticing money
Don't grow on trees
We forgot that food does and that
It's the food that we need
You see, I done traveled all over the Isles
And seen the poorest people
With the wealthiest smiles
So what is Rich or Poor, Less or More?
What's victory? What's defeat? And
Who keeps the score?
Who sleeps more soundly
The Prince or the Pauper?
Who speaks more profoundly
The Professor or just the talker?
The walker or the driver
Who travels the furthest?
The explorer or the pirate
Who is providing a service?
Who decides what is worthless
Versus what has a purpose?
Did the so-called civilized world not think
The earth a flat surface yesterday?
So, who knows what tomorrow brings?
It often is the oddest of
Songs that tomorrow sings
Look back through the ages
Everything changes
Change the way you look at the world
The world changes

Instead of reasons to die
Find a reason to live
Instead of reasons to fight
Find a reason to give
Instead of reasons to talk
Find a reason to sing
Instead of reasons to take
Find a reason to bring

Instead of reasons for I
Find a reason for we
Instead of reasons to try
Find a reason to be
Instead of reasons to look
Find a reason to see
People, I am pleading, find another reason

We find all these reasons
To never be the person we want to be
Because I'm still healing
All these wounds that are burned
So deep inside of me

We think that we're smart and
That makes us dumb
Think that we feel the most
And that makes us numb
Weak because we’re convinced that
We have the power
Because we can make buildings and guns
But not a single flower
We're just waves but think we're the ocean
Because it's easier then admitting
We don't know where the current is going
We're just flowing
Why do we feel it needs controlling?
Waves just rolls with the ocean
Until they reach the sand
So let's roll with our part
Until we reach our land
Acknowledge that the fear in our hearts
Totally in our hands
It's not a thing, we just think
Imagine the Earth decided that it
Was afraid to spin?
So don't be afraid, to sing with your voice
That's what it is for
The more we run from truth
The closer it gets to your door
Look back through the ages
Everything changes
Change the way you look at yourself
The self changes

Instead of reasons to die
Find a reason to live
Instead of reasons to fight
Find a reason to give
Instead of reasons to talk
Find a reason to sing
Instead of reasons to take
Find a reason to bring

Instead of reasons for I
Find a reason for we
Instead of reasons to try
Find a reason to be
Instead of reasons to look
Find a reason to see
People, I am pleading, find another reason