Reason Why

You were the reason why

I picked all the wrong men

Reorganized my drawers

Slept on the floor when I was ten

And you were my show and tell

The one I never knew so well

Going under and into my own private hell

Ooh, a stick-on tattoo

Of an angel, I thought was you

Someone to look up to

Someone like you

But now you're gone and I'm still here

Yes, now you're gone and I'm still here

You're the reason why I took the worst of the blows

You're the reason why I never let it show

You're the reason why nobody knows

But I know why

Yes, I know why you had to go

So now you're a tree

In a cemetery

You're blowing in the wind

What a solitary ending

And people like to talk about

Things they don't know about

Say you're basically good

But misunderstood

But they don't know what I know

And the mysteries surrounding you

You built an iron-clad fortress

That nobody could get to

But now you're gone and I'm still here

Yes, now you're gone and I'm still here

You're the reason why I took the worst of the blows

You're the reason why never let it show

You're the reason why nobody knows

But I know why

Yes, I know why

Yes, I know why

A subway platform took you away

While you cried on the phone for one more day

If I'd been there, If I'd been there, would I know what to say?

Or is it better this way?

'Cause you're the reason why I took the worst of blows

You're the reason why never let it show

And you're the reason why nobody knows

Nobody knows

Nobody knows

Nobody knows

Nobody knows

Mmm, mmm, mmm

But I know why

Yes, I know why

I know why

You had to go