came home from school on Tuesday,
While she left I'll never know,
it seemed like they got along
But one of these days I'd like to know,
just where it all went wrong
asks who the real criminals are
Oh and they told her her husband died fighting
in another country's drug wars
She said it isn't the kids on the streets
Shootin' up the dealer's smack
It's them red tape politicians
Takin' all the drug lord's kickbacks
Isn't it funny what power and money
Can do to the soul of a man?
And give me some to believe in
I'll give me something to believe in
He got a second job at night now
Just to help pay the bills
Cause his wife had taken him
Now he lives on a bottle of courage
he buys at the liquor store
He did his family real good
until he couldn't do it anymore
Whatever he found, why he broke down,
Just needed something to believe in
He needed something to believe in
The tracks of society's race
Show on the old man's face
His eyes blood -redly twinkled
Well, the mirror tells a different story
The more lines that I find
It's all written in the stages and phases
I think, how many never had a
It gives me something to believe in, yeah
Oh, lordy, lordy, Lordy, Lordy, Lordy,
Lordy, something to believe in, oh Lord above
It gives me something to believe in, oh Lord
Sometimes I wish I didn't know now,
things I didn't know then
And give me something to believe in, yeah