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