By Jimmy Scott

© 1986 April Music Inc., ASCAP



It isn't easy to stay when your friends tell you go

When your heart tells you 'yes' but your head tells you no

And though we searched for a compromise

Looked in each other's eyes for answers

The die had been cast we were all out

Of last second chances



And the heart has its reasons, I know

A time and a season an ebb and a flow

You were waving goodbye I was saying hello

I don't understand it

But the heart has its reasons, I know



And who knows why it went wrong between you and me

Suddenly we weren't the people that we used to be

I was building a bridge between as

You were building a wall

And the whole thing crumbled and tumbled

In the eye of the storm



And the heart has its reasons, I know

A time and a season an ebb and a flow

You were waving goodbye I was saying hello

I don't understand it

But the heart has its reasons, I know



Oh I bless you and set you free

Though you know there's a place deep inside

Where you're still a part of me