Just Cause 1: “a standard to justify discipline or dismissal, any legally valid reason, or more generally, ‘justification’”
Just ‘Cause 2: “colloquial contraction of ‘just because’, meaning - no reason at all.”
lyrics
Just cause you're dark, it don't mean you're morose
But they scrubbed my knuckles till the dirt was exposed
Just cause...
Didn’t fall far, and it didn’t seem fair, but
They let me go, like I never was there, for
Just cause...
And just ‘cause the sun shines, don’t mean she’s aware
looking on all that we do.
And just ‘cause it’s written or out on the web
Oh, don’t you believe that it’s true.
Eventually everyone talks of beginnings, or
Endings, but they’re all the same.
A yellow moon’s rising, and I ain’t advising, and
Just cause is all that remains.
Just ‘cause you’re lonely, it don’t mean you’re alone
And love’s overrated, once overthrown
Just cause…
Just ‘cause you’re grinning, and a battering ram
It don’t mean you’re winning, and I don’t give a damn for
Just cause…
And just ‘cause the sun shines, don’t mean she’s aware
looking on all that we do.
And just ‘cause it’s written or out on the web
Oh, don’t you believe that it’s true.
Eventually everyone talks of beginnings, or
Endings, but they’re all the same.
A yellow moon’s rising, and I ain’t advising, and
Just cause is all that remains.
And just ‘cause the sun shines, don’t mean she’s aware
looking on all that we do.
And just ‘cause it’s written or out on the web
Oh, don’t you believe that it’s true.
Eventually everyone talks of beginnings, or
Endings, but they’re all the same.
A yellow moon’s rising, and I ain’t advising, and
Just cause is all that remains.
A yellow moon’s rising, and I ain’t advising, and
Just cause is all that remains.
credits
from The Kings of Salem Road (2018),
track released April 28, 2018
Words, music, vocals, instruments, recording and mixing by James Dean Cotton
Photo: Johannes Rapprich (via Pexels.com)
James Dean Cotton hails from the Missouri Ozarks where bluegrass and Americana infused an easy, 70's acoustic style. He writes and performs solo and with the acoustic duo, American Sons, in the Seattle area.
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