Why Things Happen

You'll never know when your last breath's
 Gonna fade like a July sunset
 Or how a tragedy like gravity holds you still
 While the world keeps spinnin'
 It's hard not to question circumstances
 That leave you with nothin' to say
 Is there some kind of message, some kind of lesson?
 Damn, life's hard to explain
 Oh God, tell me why things happen
 Things happen like they do
 Leave you thinking 'bout how time leaves you
 It gets you all confused
 In the blink of a moment, gone 'fore you know it
 Hits you right out of the blue
 Wonderin' why things happen
 Things happen like they do, yeah
 How a child that's just been named
 Can then be pulled from the arms of a mother
 Or a cross on the side of a two-lane road
 Holds the memory of somebody's brother
 You try not to question God and his judgement
 But damn it, I don't understand
 Somebody tell me why things happen
 Things happen like they do
 Leaves you thinking 'bout how time leaves you
 It gets you all confused
 In the blink of a moment, gone 'fore you know it
 Hits you right out of the blue
 You got me wonderin' why things happen
 Things happen like they do, oh
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 Your heart keeps on beatin'
 Through all of those feelings
 That you thought you'd never get through
 There must be a reason our eyes are not seein'
 Everything we want them to
 So tell me why things happen, yeah, yeah, yeah
 So tell me why things happen
 Things happen like they do (like they do)
 Leaves you thinking 'bout how time leaves you (leaves you thinking)
 It gets you all confused (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
 In the blink of a moment, gone 'fore you know it (like nothin')
 Hits you right out of the blue (hits you right out of the blue)
 Wonderin' why things happen
 Things happen like they do (things happen, things happen)
 Oh, yeah
 Do, yeah
 Yeah