Name: The Reason
Duration: 5 min 43 s
Channel: Tim Wheeler
Description: "The Reason" is a song by Tim Wheeler. With History being rewritten as we speak we often forget or have never contemplated why our founding fathers came to this continent.

The Reason

Tim Wheeler

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With History being rewritten as we speak we often forget or have never contemplated why our founding fathers came to this continent.

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Tim Wheeler

Born in Detroit, Tim started writing when he was 15. He played in bands growing up and moved to Dallas in the early 80âs to start a recording studio with a buddy from college. There he developed his engineering skills and continued to hone his songwriting abilities. He married, and in the late 80âs moved his family back home to the Motor City. Tim now lives with his wife in Northwest Ohio.

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Folk

Charts

Peak #365

Peak in subgenre #22

Author

Tim Wheeler

Rights

2002, 2003

Uploaded

December 04, 2003

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.9 MB • 96 kbps • 5:43

Story behind the song

This song is way too long. But... it's going to stay that way... for now anyways.

Lyrics

The Reason
©2002 Tim Wheeler                                                 

Many years ago there were those who said
There is more to life, than to end up dead
They knew deep inside they were meant to sing
For a higher power than an earthly king
                                         
So they crossed the way leaving past behind
What they'd never known they were bent to find
They endured the pain and the loss of kin
And they fought the wars that they could not win
                                         
We esteem their selfless lives
The countless daughters, sons and wives
But will their principles survive
If we forget the reason why they tried to sing
                                         
They were men of strength, and they were men of flaws
Yet they broke the mold forged in earthly laws
yet they were moral men who were free to think
and they wrote it down, using sweat and ink
                                         
We are caught up in the flood
Of bounty built upon their blood
But will their principles survive
If we forget the reason why they tried to sing                                         

Bridge:

This world would know a different place
If they’d decided not to seek His grace
And we will fail in this endowed pursuit
If we destroy the vine while we consume it’s fruit.
                                                
Yes those who've gone before have carved a better way
But on the paths of time, we've traveled just a day
And we are fathers of a yet un-numbered throng
Will they look back and sing an unfamiliar song
                                                 
Yes, we remember what they've done
The generations we've become
But proven principles could die
If we forget the reason why they tried to sing

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