Chorus (Pa**ion) (2X) I got this love (3X) Because because because because Verse 1 Because of Jonestown Because of Auschwitz Because the leaves fall and we can't stop it But that makes fall leaves I'mma start a mosh pit (ch!) This is your captain Hopping out the co*kpit I forgot my parachute But I got my bay sounds So I'll be going dummy Rocking on the way down I'll be saying "hey ground!" Howzabout we make out? I'll put on some Ray Brown You can grab some take out Love isn't more sin, love isn't forced in Getting under your skin, digging for endorphins It's the portion some of us'll forgo Fingers on your torso tapping you in Morse code The opera aria we're singing like a bar song The stranger's pretty face that hits you like a car bomb The wrinkled note we pa**ed in cla** in second grade And all it says up on the page (is) Chorus Verse 2 Because my Grandma lived to 99-eleven months Between a hundred years of solitude and heaven once Because she loved her son but couldn't ever say it right Because the language of the planet isn't day and night It's in the in between, it's when we intervene And never let a silly hater rabbit pimp the scene For the deaf kid in the aisle of the symphony Who hears it through the rumble of the tuba and the timpani For those lay waste to beauty with a straight face Everywhere on earth we're all escaping from the same place And, yes, occasionally we get drunk and out of line Last night, there's a lamp post that I asked to be my valentine Take a shady place, shine until it radiates Seventeen to eighty eight, make a break and head west Or make a promise to your lady in a red dress Last night in my hot mess That lamp post said yes Chorus Verse 3 Detroit is equal till there's half its people laid off While corporate lawyers and former employers play golf Because of furor over every juror paid off And because the furor used to be a boy named Adolf Because of anakin, instead of panickin' And because of every man who can be more than just a manaquin Because of Tienanmen, because there was a cameraman And because of the cameraman chasing princess Diana and Because of Tammany hall, because of Gramercy park Because of Amityville and because of amnesty Because of famine and because its not a fantasy Because of every tenement into family Tentative to say cause of combs cause of hannity Homes for humanity the bones of my ancestry Grown and gone on gravestones and drawn on payphones and palms Raised up in alms