Released: December 9, 2003
Songwriter: Daniel Estren Doug Robb
Producer: Howard Benson
"The Reason" is the hit 2004 single by rock band Hoobastank, off their album The Reason. The song is Hoobastank's most commercially successful single, peaking at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, and #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks. It was nominated for the Song of the Year on the 47th Grammy Awards. It was also a transatlantic hit, peaking at #12 on the UK Singles Chart. "The Reason" also won the MTV Asia VMA award for best rock video and was covered by many artists, including singer Tom Jones. Read more on Last.fm.
Length: 3:54
I'm not a perfect person
There's many things I wish I didn't do
But I continue learning
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know
[Chorus]
I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
And the reason is you
[Verse 2]
I'm sorry that I hurt you
It's something I must live with every day
And all the pain I put you through
I wish that I could take it all away
And be the one who catches all your tears
That's why I need you to hear
[Chorus]
I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
And the reason is you
[Bridge]
And the reason is you
And the reason is you
And the reason is you
[Breakdown]
I'm not a perfect person
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know
[Chorus]
I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
And the reason is you
[Outro]
I’ve found a reason to show
A side of me you didn’t know
A reason for all that I do
And the reason is you
Guitar Hero Live GHTV Soundtrack
- Been Away Too Long
- No Excuses
- Creepin’
- Do Me a Favor
- Spoonman
- She Looks So Perfect
- Disposable Teens
- The Fight Song
- mOBSCENE
- Higher Ground
- The One I Love
- Sing
- Hammer to Fall
- I Want to Break Free
- Shiny Happy People
- Stache (High Princess)
- Man in the Box
- Thunder on the Mountain
- Eye of the Tiger
- The Cowboys’ Christmas Ball
- Girls
- That’s My Kind of Night
- First Date
- Girls / Girls / Boys
- Sirens
- I Am Mine
- Pour Some Sugar on Me
- Somebody to You
- Addicted to Love
- I Want You to Know
- American You
- Nothing But a Good Time
- Children of the Night
- Party Like Tomorrow Is the End of the World
- Don’t Be Cruel
- Working for the Weekend
- Rock the Night
- Love Me
- Let’s Go
- Real Wild Child (Wild One)
- Uma Thurman
- Irresistible
- Blaze of Glory
- Because We Can
- I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
- Jessie’s Girl
- Left Hand Free
- Chasing the Sun
- Centuries
- Drown
- Something in the Water
- Famous
- Deep Six
- Dangerous
- Hanging on the Telephone
- Erase Me
- Oh Love
- Before He Cheats
- Under Cover of Darkness
- Fat Bottomed Girls
- You Know I’m No Good
- Live While We’re Young
- Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)
- Try
- Them Bones
- Black Hole Sun
- I Want It All
- Sugar, We’re Goin Down
- Lust for Life
- You Only Live Once
- Let It Rock
- The Lazy Song
- All the Small Things
- The Rock Show
- Losing My Religion
- Freak on a Leash
- Reptilia
- Livin’ on a Prayer
- American Idiot
- We Are the Champions
- Good Girl
- Girls, Girls, Girls
- Sweater Weather
- Two Princes
- Dammit
- Monster
- We Built This City
- Going Under
- The Reason
- The Day I Tried to Live
- Black Rain
- You Give Love a Bad Name
- Duality
- Taken for a Fool
- Don’t You (Forget About Me)
- The Kids Aren’t Alright
- Counting Stars
- My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light ’Em Up)
- Hangar 18
- Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)
- Rock of Ages
- Valentine’s Day
- What About Love?
- Before I Forget
- Still into You
- Let Her Go
- Iris
- Chocolate
- Stone
- Guitar Hero Live GHTV Soundtrack
- The Reason (2003)
- NOW That’s What I Call Music! 59 [UK] (2004)
- McMusic 31 [NOR] (2004)
- NOW That’s What I Call Music! 16 [US] (2004)
- Friends: The Ultimate Soundtrack (2005)
- Je T’Aime⁵ (2006)
- Greatest Hits: Don’t Touch My Moustache (2009)
- Now That’s What I Call Love [US] (2010)
- Icon (2010)
- 20 #1’s: Alternative Rock (2015)
- NOW That’s What I Call The 00's [US] (2017)
- NOW That’s What I Call the 00s [UK] (2017)
- The Best Of Ballads (2018)
- The Reason (15th Anniversary Deluxe) (2019)
- Hoobastank for the Oregon Trail Generation (2020)
- The Reason
- Crawling In The Dark
- Out Of Control
- Same Direction
- Running Away
- Is This The Day? (Acoustic)
- To Be With You
- Replace You
- We Are One
- Let It Out
- Just One
- Ready For You
- Let You Know
- Educated Fool
- Never Saw It Coming
- Can I Buy You a Drink?
- Who The Hell Am I?
- If Only
- The First Of Me
- Without A Fight
- What Happened To Us?
- Lucky
- From The Heart
- The Dance That Broke My Jaw