A Reason

Dad said, "Get a job, son

You can't just lay around, all summer long

Your school days are gone

What's gonna make you wanna make it on your own

Oh, what's wrong?"

So he took a square of paper

That he cut out of the Avery Evening News

'Wanted, manual labor

At the grocery store on 16th Avenue'

Stock the shelves

Sweep the place

He thought of lookin' somewhere else

Until he saw her face

He finally found a reason

To wake up early, every morning

Get his feet on the ground and get downtown

To be there right on time

'Cause he knows that she'll be waiting

She'll be working down the aisle

And he'd do anything

To see that small-town angel smile

Turns out, all he ever really needed was a reason

He never thought much about the future

But when a stock boy falls in love with a check-out girl

He's not allowed to offer

So he wants to make his way up in the world

He works all day

And studies late into the night

Yeah, it's tough to make the grade

Oh, but that's alright

'Cause he's finally found a reason

To wake up early, every morning

Get his feet on the ground and get downtown

To be there right on time

'Cause he knows that she'll be waiting

She'll be working down the aisle

And he'd do anything

To see that small-town angel smile

Turns out, all he ever really needed was a reason

He's never been much

At getting dressed up for the church

And that's just what he does

All because of her

You see he's finally found a reason

To wake up early, Saturday morning

Put his feet on the ground and go downtown

Gonna get there right on time

'Cause he knows that she'll be waiting

Her daddy will walk her down the aisle

And he'll promise God

He'll always make that small-town angel smile

Turns out, all he ever really needed

Turns out, all he ever really needed was a reason

Yeah, yeah, yeah, was a reason, yeah, yeah