I Believed

INTRO: G  C  G  C  G


In a tiny town where the biggest 
things
Were the water tower and a young 
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boy's dreams, I believed
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In a little house of simple means
Where doing without was a common 
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scene, I believed


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On a dried up square of worthless 
earth
Where we scratched our living out of
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 the dirt, I believed
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In a little brown church where I 
first heard
The choir sing and the preacher's 
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word, I believed, oh    I believed
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And the closer that I look within, 
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the further I could see
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And I really didn't have much other
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 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 
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I believed


INSTRUMENTAL: G  F  C  G  F  C  G


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 
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believed, I believed, I believed