There is still Reason to Believe

There are two popular songs titled “Reason to Believe”.

The first was written in 1968 by a very underrated songwriter named Tim Hardin. His version of Reason to Believe has been covered by many artists, including Rod Stewart, The Carpenters and Johnny Cash. The most famous is the Rod Stewart version:

As Wikipedia describes it: “The lyrics to ‘Reason to Believe’ center on the painful paradox of maintaining hope, affection, and trust even when faced with overwhelming evidence that you are being deceived or that hope is in vain.”

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Tim Hardin’s version is one of those songs where the melody seems upbeat, but the lyrics tell a different story. The most famous example of those songs is Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”.

The key lyric in Tim Hardin’s of the song, about the lies he has been told, encapsulates this dichotomy:

“If I listened long enough to you
I’d find a way to believe that it’s all true
Knowing that you lied
Straight-faced while I cried
Still I look to find a reason to believe.”

Springsteen wrote the other version of “Reason to Believe”, on his dark and brooding Nebraska album. In his version, Springsteen sings about people with absolutely no basis to believe that things will get better — but they believe anyway.

The song has been described as “a profound comment on the resilience of our species”. Wow, the first time the words “resilience of our species” have appeared in my decade plus of writing at Pounding the Rock. This is the key lyric of the Springsteen version:

“Struck me kinda funny, funny, yeah, to me
How at the end of every hard-earned day people find some reason to believe.”

For Spurs fans like me, I will go with Bruce. At the end of the hard-earned day, including the day that ended with the painful Game Two against the Knicks, I can find some reason to believe.

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Publish date : 2026-06-07 19:46:00

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