Darius Rucker, Jimmie Allen, Charley Pride - Why Things Happen lyrics

You'll never know when your last breath’s
Gonna fade like a July sunset
Or how a tragedy like gravity
Holds you still while the
World keeps spinnin'
It's hard not to question circumstances
That leave you with nothin’ to say
Is there some kind of message? Some
Kind of lesson?
Damn, life's hard to explain

Oh, God, tell me why things happen
Things happen like they do
Leave you thinking 'bout how time leaves you
It gets you all confused
In the blink of a moment
Gone 'fore you know it
Hit's you right out of the blue
Wonderin' why things happen
Things happen like they do, yeah

How a child that's just been named
Can then be pulled from the arms of a mother
Or a cross on the side of a two lane road
Holds the memory of somebody's brother
You try not to question God and his judgement
But, damnit, I don't understand

Somebody tell me why things happen
Things happen like they do
Leaves you thinking ’bout how time leaves you
It gets you all confused
In the blink of a moment
Gone ’fore you know it
Hit's you right out of the blue
You got me wonderin' why things happen
Things happen like they do

Your heart keeps on beatin’ through
All of those feelings
That you thought you'd never get through
There must be a reason our
Eyes are not seeing
Everything we want them to, uh
So tell me why things happen, yeah
Yeah, yeah

So tell me why things happen
Things happen like they do (Like they do)
Leave you thinking 'bout how time leaves you
(Leave you thinking 'bout)
It gets you all confused
(yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, yeah)
In the blink of a moment
Gone ’fore you know it
Hit's you right out of the blue
(Hit's you right out of the blue)
Wonderin' why things happen
Things happen like they do, yeah

(Things happen, things happen) oh, yeah
Do, yeah yeah