Lyrics to
Everybody Needs A Reason

This version of Everybody Needs A Reason was released by Michael Bolton in 1975.

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Everybody needs a reason
To make it through another day
And everybody needs a reason
Try and find another way

I’ve been up, I’ve been down
Seemed like one long, lonely ride
Wish I’d been usin’, time I could be usin’
To learn about myself inside
That’s not a hard thing to do

Everybody needs a reason
Doesn’t matter who they are
And everybody needs a reason
To make it to the shootin’ star

So many people, don’t understand
Never live, but waiting to die
I wish I could reach them
I really wanna teach them
Something so good going on inside

Maybe they don’t like it, maybe they do
This is the way, it’s all coming true
Everybody needs a reason
Everybody needs to know
Maybe things are changin’
I really don’t know
Knowing things is helping to grow

Everybody needs a reason
Everybody needs to know

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Michael Bolton has released many songs over the years besides Everybody Needs A Reason. Michael Bolton released songs from 1975 to 2005 spanning across albums like Michael Bolotin, Every Day Of My Life, Michael Bolton, Everybody's Crazy, The Hunger, Soul Provider, Time, Love & Tenderness, Timeless: The Classics, The One Thing, This Is The Time: The Christmas Album, All That Matters, My Secret Passion: The Arias, Timeless: The Classics Vol. 2, Only A Woman Like You, Vintage, and 'Til The End Of Forever. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Michael Bolton.

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About Lyrics and Everybody Needs A Reason by Michael Bolton

The lyrics to Everybody Needs A Reason are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Michael Bolton used when the song was created in 1975. The lyrics to Everybody Needs A Reason have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Michael Bolton and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Everybody Needs A Reason by Michael Bolton. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Everybody Needs A Reason" means the words set to the music of Everybody Needs A Reason, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Michael Bolton. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Everybody Needs A Reason and the lyrics to Everybody Needs A Reason are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Michael Bolton who came here looking just for the lyrics to Everybody Needs A Reason, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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