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
  (Repeat X3)