Let us pray   Heavenly Father   Hear a nigga down here   Before I go to sleep   Tell me, who do you believe in?   Who do you believe in?      I see mothers in black cryin', brothers in packs dyin'   Plus everybody's high, too doped up to ask why?   Watchin' our own downfall, witness the end   It's like we don't believe in God 'cause we livin' in sin   I asked my homie on the block why he strapped, he laughed   Pointed his pistol as the cop car passed and blast   It's just another murder, nobody mourns no more   My tear drops gettin' bigger but can't figure what I'm cryin' for      Is it the miniature caskets, little babies   Victims of a stray, from drug dealers gone crazy   Maybe it's just the drugs, visions of how the block was   Crack came and it was strange how it rocked us   Perhaps the underlyin' fact stay high explain genocide   It's when we ride on our own kind   What is it we all fear? Reflections in the mirror   We can't escape fate, the end is gettin' nearer      Who do you believe in?   I put my faith in God, blessed and still breathin'   And even though it's hard   That's who I believe in   Before I'm leavin'   I'm askin'' the grievin', who do you believe in?      Who do you believe in?   I put my faith in God, blessed and still breathin'   And even though it's hard   That's who I believe in   Before I'm leavin'   I'm askin'' the grievin', who do you believe in?      Can't close my eyes 'cause all I see is terror   I hate the man in the mirror   'Cause his reflection makes the pain turn realer   Times of Armageddeon, murder in mass amounts   In this society where only gettin' the cash counts   I started out as a beginner   Entered the criminal lifestyle became a sinner   I make my money and vacate, evade prison   Went from the chosen one to outcast, unforgiven      And all the Hennessy and weed can't hide, the pain I feel inside   You know, it's like I'm livin' just to die   I fall on my knees and beg for mercy, not knowin' if I'm worthy   Livin' life thinkin' no man can hurt me   So I'm askin', before I lay me down to sleep   Before you judge me, look at all the shit you did to me, my misery   I rose up from the slums, made it out the flames   In my search for fame will I change? I'm askin'      Who do you believe in?   I put my faith in God, blessed and still breathin'   And even though it's hard   That's who I believe in   Before I'm leavin'   I'm askin'' the grievin', who do you believe in?      Who do you believe in?   I put my faith in God, blessed and still breathin'   And even though it's hard   That's who I believe in   Before I'm leavin'   I'm askin' the grievin', who do you believe in?      Faith in Allah, believe in me and this plastic   'Cause so far I done witnessed to many dead niggaz in caskets   With they chest plates stretched like elastic   And what's worse I'm on front line, holdin' down camp, still mashin'   Heard my cousin, one of the old heads from the block   Just came home october of '95 back in Yardsville stuck      With a three to five, if he don't act up, now he realize   If you don't stay wise, then in this game you fucked   Talk to my baby girl, give me the word on what she heard   One of the grimmies is snitchin', diamond a stool pigeon I talked to him   He said he didn't, my man said he did, in fact he's sure   'Cause he just came home off of bail      Now tell me   Who do you believe in?   I put my faith in God, blessed and still breathin'   And even though it's hard   That's who I believe in   Before I'm leavin'   I'm askin'' the grievin', who do you believe in?      Who do you believe in?   I put my faith in God, blessed and still breathin'   And even though it's hard   That's who I believe in   Before I'm leavin'   I'm askin'' the grievin', who do you believe in?      Who do you believe in?   Is it Buddah, Jehovah, or Jah, or Allah?   Is it Jesus, is it God or is just yourself?   Definitely not to be imposed, being a demon   Because this is the joy of believing   Men, to believe in yourselves   But for sure, the higher power   Resides only to ride in the heart of the true      From the soul, of the man, for truth never has an alibi   In the poetry, or in it's realm   That's what pulls all words together   Just to understand, that every man, is his own man   And only man can satisfy the man   Only the soul of the man, the feelings of the man   The for realness of the man   You can't shake the man, when you feel the man, you know the man   And you gotta call yourself because you are that man      Who do you believe in?   I put my faith in God, blessed and still breathin'      I put my faith in God   blessed and still breathin'   Even though it's hard   That's who I believe in   Before I'm leavin'   I'm askin' the grievin'      Who do you believe in?   Who do you   Oh blessed, oh blessed   Oh who do you   Do you believe in?      Who do you believe in?   I put my faith in God, blessed and still breathin'   And even though it's hard   That's who I believe in   Before I'm leavin'   I'm askin'' the grievin', who do you believe in?      Who do you believe in?   I put my faith in God, blessed and still breathin'   And even though it's hard   That's who I believe in   Before I'm leavin'   I'm askin'' the grievin', who do you believe in?      Who do you believe in?   I put my faith in God, blessed and still breathin'   And even though it's hard   That's who I believe in   Before I'm leavin'   I'm askin'' the grievin', who do you believe in?