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 believed, oh I believed      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   (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   (I believed)      In a place where 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      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 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   (I believed)   I believed   (I believed)   I believed   (I believed)