I Believed

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In a tiny town where the biggest things
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Were the water tower and a young boy's dreams, I believed
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In a little house of simple means
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Where doing without was a common scene, I believed
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On a dried up square of worthless earth
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Where we scratched our living out of the dirt, I believed
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In a little brown church where I first heard
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The choir sing and the preacher's word, I believed, oh I believed
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And the closer that I look within, the further I could see
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And I really didn't have much other choice, so I believed
In a high-rise world of steel and glass
Where a man dies young if he don't think fast, 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
In a place where people don't care
They turn their backs like you're not there, I believed
Yeah, where anything goes and usually does
I held my breath and bit my tongue, I believed, oh, I believed
The closer that I looked within, the further I could see
And I really didn't have much other choice, so I believed
BRIDGE:
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In a higher place, in a deeper faith
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In a power stronger than you or me I believed
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Now when they put that granite on my grave
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All I want that stone to say is I believed
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In where I'm from and the woman I loved
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The job I did and god above, I believed, I believed, I believed