LADY GAGA - MILLION REASONS

MILLION REASONS

LADY GAGA

SONGWRITERS: HILLARY LINDSEY & LADY GAGA

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: JOANNE

LABEL: INTERSCOPE RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2016

"Million Reasons" is a song recorded by American singer Lady Gaga for her fifth studio album, Joanne (2016). Initially released as a promotional single, it was released to radio stations on November 8, 2016, as the album's second single. The track was written by Gaga, Hillary Lindsey and Mark Ronson, and produced by Ronson, Gaga and BloodPop. It grew organically from the conversations that Lindsey and Gaga were having one day, with the title phrase lifted from the singer's musings about the men in her life.

A pop song with country influences, backed by guitar and piano, "Million Reasons" lyrically delves on "heartbreak and hope" during a relationship, as well as Gaga's religious faith during the chorus, ultimately making it a positive message song. Critically appreciated for its simple production and lyrics, "Million Reasons" reached the top 10 of the charts in Hungary, Slovakia, Switzerland, Venezuela and the United States as well as the top 20 in Belgium, Canada, Italy, and Scotland.

The music video was directed by Ruth Hogben and Andrea Gelardin, and it continues from where the video for previous single, "Perfect Illusion", had ended. It shows Gaga singing in a white studio, and also her in a desert breaking down and finally being rescued by her friends. In order to promote "Million Reasons", the singer performed it at multiple avenues, including the Dive Bar Tour (2016), on multiple television appearances, and also included it in her set list at the Super Bowl LI halftime show and the 2017 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Cover versions of the song were recorded by singer Kelsea Ballerini, and by Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and Phish's Trey Anastasio.

You're giving me a million reasons to let you go

You're giving me a million reasons to quit the show

You're givin' me a million reasons

Give me a million reasons

Givin' me a million reasons

About a million reasons

If I had a highway, I would run for the hills

If you could find a dry way, I'd forever be still

But you're giving me a million reasons

Give me a million reasons

Givin' me a million reasons

About a million reasons

I bow down to pray

I try to make the worst seem better

Lord, show me the way

To cut through all his worn out leather

I've got a hundred million reasons to walk away

But baby, I just need one good one to stay

Head stuck in a cycle, I look off and I stare

It's like that I've stopped breathing, but completely aware

'Cause you're giving me a million reasons

Give me a million reasons

Givin' me a million reasons

About a million reasons

And if you say something that you might even mean

It's hard to even fathom which parts I should believe

'Cause you're giving me a million reasons

Give me a million reasons

Givin' me a million reasons

About a million reasons

I bow down to pray

I try to make the worst seem better

Lord, show me the way

To cut through all his worn out leather

I've got a hundred million reasons to walk away

But baby, I just need one good one to stay

Ehh, ehh, eyy

Baby, I'm bleedin', bleedin'

Stay, ehh, ehh

Can't you give me what I'm needin', needin'?

Every heartbreak makes it hard to keep the faith

But baby, I just need one good one

Good one, good one, good one, good one, good one

When I bow down to pray

I try to make the worst seem better

Lord, show me the way

To cut through all his worn out leather

I've got a hundred million reasons to walk away

But baby, I just need one good one, good one

Tell me that you'll be the good one, good one

Baby, I just need one good one to stay.