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If You Need A Reason Tab

by Mason Jennings


I think that the other version of this song is way too complicated.  So here's the same 
but way simpler to understand.

Mason plays everything tuned a 1/2 step lower.  I have too many x chromosomes so I play 
in regular tuning with a capo on the third fret.  Do what works for you.


Mason fingerpicks the whole song.  But then again, he has a bass and drummer to back him 
 I tend to strum it out.



Got so lost that I went to church

Sorry God but you made it worse
           
Made me sit behind a fence
           
Haunted by the evidence


I guess you don’t want me to think

So instead I’ll dream and drink
             
Got too drunk to drive home
          
In the cab I grabbed my phone


And made a call I might regret

To a girl that I just met
            
Lately things are not okay
                  
I just wanted to hear somebody say


                     
If you need a reason as to why you’re here
                                  
You don’t need to look farther than me
                     
If you need a reason as to why you’re here
                                  
You don’t need to look farther than me


Lovely, lovely quiet lake

How could this be a mistake
             
Too dark now to see your face
                       
Your hair is blowing all over the place


The moon is caught in a frozen glass

I could not let this moment pass
                
The sun is waiting far away
              
Until i’ve had a chance to say


All that’s missing, all that’s lost

Every hope at any cost
                
Every dream too good to come true
               
Floods my heart when I’m with you

                     
If you need a reason as to why you’re here
                                  
You don’t need to look farther than me
                     
If you need a reason as to why you’re here
                                  
You don’t need to look farther than me


Got so lost that I went to church

Sorry God but you made it worse
           
Made me sit behind a fence
           
Haunted by the evidence


I guess you don’t want me to think

So instead I’ll dream and drink
             
Got too drunk to drive home
          
In the cab I grabbed my phone


And made a call I might regret

To a girl that I just met
            
Lately things are not okay
                  
I just wanted to hear somebody say


                     
If you need a reason as to why you’re here
                                  
You don’t need to look farther than me
                     
If you need a reason as to why you’re here
                                  
You don’t need to look farther than me
                     
If you need a reason as to why you’re here
                                  
You don’t need to look farther than me