I Believed

In a tiny town where the biggest things

Were the water tower and a young boy's

dreams

I Believed

In a little house of simple means

Where doing without was a common

scene

I Believed

On a dried up square of worthless Earth

Where we scratched our living out of

The Dirt

I Believed

In a little brown church where I first

heard

The choir sing and the preacher's word

I Belived, oh I believed

CHORUS

And the closer that I looked within

The further I could see

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 whre people don't seem to

care

They turn their backs like you're not

there

I Believed

Yeah, where anything goes, it usually

does

I held my breath and bit my tongue

And I believed, Oh I Believed

REPEAT CHORUS

BRIDGE

In a higher place, in a deeper faith

In a power stronger than you or me

I Believed

Now when they put that granite on my

grave

All I want that stone to say is

I Believed

And where I'm from and the woman I love

The job I did and God Above

I Believed, I Believed, I Believed

I Believed, I Believed, I Believed