Something To Believe In-Bret Michaels

[ti:Something To Believe In] [ar:Various Artists] [al:The Greatest '80S Metal Moments Of All Time] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Something To Believe In - Bret Michaels [00:00.44]Well I see him on the TV [00:03.44] [00:04.27]You preachin' about the promised land [00:06.72] [00:07.98]He tells me to believe in Jesus [00:10.52] [00:11.29]Steals the money from my hand [00:13.81] [00:15.22]Some say he was a good man [00:18.03] [00:18.75]But lord I think he sinned yeah [00:23.21] [00:24.60]One two three [00:26.70] [00:27.98]Twenty-two years of mental tears [00:30.58] [00:31.26]Cries a suicidal Vietnam vet [00:33.77] [00:34.63]Who fought a losing war on a foreign shore [00:38.16]To find his country didn't want him back [00:40.89] [00:42.31]Their bullets took his best friend in Saigon [00:44.93]Our lawyers took his wife and kids no regrets [00:48.10] [00:49.55]In a time I don't remember know [00:52.59]At a war he can't forget [00:55.41] [00:56.31]He cried forgive me for what I've done there [00:59.35] [01:00.33]I never meant the things I did [01:04.85] [01:08.14]And give me something to believe in [01:10.94] [01:12.54]If there's a lord above [01:14.18] [01:15.08]And give me something to believe in [01:17.46] [01:19.89]Oh lord arise [01:21.66] [01:23.83]My best friend died a lonely man [01:26.21] [01:27.06]In some Palm Springs hotel room [01:29.88] [01:31.12]I got the call last Christmas Eve [01:34.24]And they told me the news [01:36.91] [01:38.42]I tried all night not to break down and cry [01:41.57]But the tears rolled down my face [01:44.12] [01:45.39]I felt so cold and empty [01:48.08]Or like a lost soul out of place [01:51.45] [01:52.72]And the mirror mirror it's on the wall [01:55.90]Sees my smile it fades again [02:00.66] [02:03.80]And give me something to believe in [02:06.92] [02:08.55]If there's a lord above [02:10.30] [02:11.26]And give me something to believe in [02:14.00] [02:15.63]Oh lord arise [02:17.45] [02:19.37]Sometimes I wish to god I didn't know now [02:22.75] [02:23.33]The things I didn't know then [02:26.78] [02:30.78]Would you gan tell me home [02:32.68] [03:12.62]I drive by the homeless sleeping on a cold dark street [03:17.46]Like bodies in an open grave [03:19.74] [03:21.11]Underneath the broken old neon sign [03:24.22]That used to read Jesus saves [03:26.61] [03:28.32]A mile away live the rich folks [03:30.93] [03:31.46]And I see how they're living it up [03:34.09] [03:35.20]While the poor they eat from hand to mouth [03:38.59]The rich is drinkin' from a golden cup [03:41.41] [03:42.68]And it just makes me wonder [03:45.32]Why so many lose so few win [03:51.26] [03:53.58]And give me something to believe in [03:57.00] [03:58.65]If there's a lord above [04:00.17] [04:01.25]And give me something to believe in [04:04.14] [04:05.82]Oh lord arise [04:07.48] [04:08.53]You give me something to believe in [04:10.88]You take the high road [04:12.67]And sometime I'll take the low road [04:15.95]And give me something to believe in [04:18.48] [04:20.29]Oh lord lord arise [04:22.88]And give me something to believe in [04:25.30] [04:27.48]Oh lord lord arise [04:30.13]And give me something to believe in [04:32.34]You take the high road [04:34.33]Get sometime I'll take the low road [04:37.63] [04:38.26]Sometimes I wish did gonna didn't know now [04:42.22]The things I didn't know then [04:46.18] [04:48.86]And [04:49.22] [04:57.92]And give me something to believe in