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Can't Put A Reason

from Jack Of Hearts by Gordon Michaels

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…an answer to the age-old question, “Why do you Love me?”….I was working with the rolling-rollicking shuffle feel in the verses and was thinking about how many of us go through a period of dropping or just plain growing out of our belief systems and conditioning and just being in the moment---maybe a combo of my experiences with est, LSD, zazen, and reading Alan Watts/U.G. Krishnamurti/and some authors in the neo-Advaita school…about a free-falling-free-wheeling transcendence of emotion and intellect beyond reason but nonetheless fairly reasonable…and worked those ideas into the verse lyrics…sometime while this was in my head I heard “Mr. Blue” by ELO on the car radio and was really impressed with the breakdown part with quarter note piano chops and vocals….I used that production approach and wrote a Beatle-ish melody---added harmony-on-the –sweet-side—Bobby undergirded and balanced it with some staccato bass and voila!...a pretty cool sounding chorus…the ending is pure Lennon-esque Revolver era suspension between A7 and G7 chords with those glissando strings from Glass Onion…

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Can’t Put A Reason
I . . . don’t know why I do those things I do
All my reasons melt away
I . . . don’t know why I love you like I do
Gonna love you anyway
Can’t put a reason on our love
Can’t put a sign on the skies above
Can’t put a reason on the day
Can’t put a reason on a star
Can’t analyze all the things you are
Can’t put a reason the day
I . . . don’t know how I ride this winding road
All my directions blew away
I . . . don’t know how I live from day to day
Just gonna live it anyway
Can’t put a reason on our love
Can’t put a sign on the skies above
Can’t put a reason on the day
Can’t put a reason on the Sun
Couldn’t care less when havin’ fun
Can’t put a reason on the day
All my thoughts conditioned by memory
All the things I do are too
All the things I think I thought I did believe
Crashin’ down….fragments on the ground
Come crashin’ down without a clue

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from Jack Of Hearts, released July 15, 2021
Gordon Michaels: vocals, guitars, piano, synth keyboards
Ron Turner: guitars, programming
Bobby Peters: bass

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Gordon Michaels Baltimore, Maryland

Gordon Michaels is a singer songwriter living in Parkville, Maryland with his wife Mary Ann and his dog, Mazie. Jack of Hearts and Tune Rider are Gordon's first album releases since his debut Stargazer on A&M Horizon Records in 1979. Gordon splits his time between writing, recording and teaching at Towson University. ... more

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