All the girls I grew up with

Got a husband house and kids

That's what everybody did after school

If I'd a had a steady boyfriend

I mighta stuck around like them but

Back then I never had a reason to

L.A.'s like another planet

Had to live there to understand it

And I thought when I first landed that California's cool

Till I saw good girls gettin' out of control

Endin' up sellin' their souls

Oh no I never had a reason to



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I never had a reason to stay

To not walk away

Nobody's heart was gonna break over me

I never had something worth keepin'

Or somebody I needed

Like I'm needin' you

Baby don't you see it's true

I never had a reason to believe in love



To some love comes as a vision

To some it's a sweet Baptism

Me and love had a head-on collision

When I ran into you

Got some feelings I figurin' out

No I don't know exactly how

Until now I never had a reason to



Chorus



I never had something worth keepin'

Or somebody I needed

Like I'm needin' you

Baby don't ya' see it's true

I never had a reason to believe in love.



(Tim Nichols, Mark D. Sanders)

Copyright 1996 EMI Blackwood Music Inc.