I Believed

In a tiny town where the biggest things

Were the water tower and a young boy's dreams

I believedIn a little house of simple means

Where doing without, was a common scene

I believedOn a dried up square of worthless earth

Where we scratched our living out of the dirt

I believedIn a little brown church where I first heard

The choir sing and the preacher's word

I believed, oh I believedAnd the closer that I looked within

The further I could see

And I really didn't have much other choice

So, I believedIn a high-rise world of steel and glass

Where a man dies young if he don't think fast

I believed

(I believed)On the streets where the truth is hard to find

And what's in it for me is the bottom line

I believed

(I believed)In a place where people don't seem to care

They turn their backs like you're not there

I believedYeah, where anything goes, it usually does

I held my breath and bit my tongue

And I believed, oh I believedThe closer that I looked within

The further I could see

And I really didn't have much other choice

So, I believedIn a higher place, in a deeper faith

In a power stronger than you or me

I believedNow, when they put that granite on my grave

All I want that stone to say is

I believedAnd where I'm from and the woman I love

The job I did and God above

I believed, I believed, I believedI believed

(I believed)

I believed

(I believed)

I believed

(I believed)

I believed

(I believed)