Released: June 21, 2010
Songwriter: Poison
Producer: Bruce Fairbairn
I came home from school on Tuesday
To find my mother gone
Why she left I'll never know
It seemed like they got along
But one of these days I'd like to know
Just where it all went wrong
A woman torn to tears asks
Who the real criminals are
When they told her her husband died
Fighting in another country's drug wars
She said it isn't the kids on the streets without a dream
Shootin' up the dealers' smack
It's them red tape politicians
Taking all the drug lords' kickbacks
Isn't it funny what power and money
Can do to the soul of a man?
And give me something to believe in
If there's a Lord above
Ah give me something to believe in
If there's a Lord above
He got a second job at night now
Just to help pay the bills
And there he worked for the rest of his life
Because his wife had taken ill
Now he lives on a bottle of courage
He buys at the liquor store
He did his family real good
Until he couldn't do it anymore
Whatever he found or why he broke down
No one's really sure
Just needed something to believe in
If there's a Lord above
He needed something to believe in
Oh Lord arise
The cracks of society's race show on the old man's face
His eyes, blood red, laid to waste
Well, the mirror tells a different story
Than the one that's playing in my mind
Every time I swear I'm looking younger
The more lines that I find
I guess I learned to trade youth for wisdom
And lust in for romance
It's all written in the stages and phases
Of life's little dance
But when I want to bitch about growing old
I think, 'How many never had a chance?'
It gives me something to believe in, yeah
Oh Lord arise
It gives me something to believe in, yeah
Oh Lord, Lord arise
Something to believe in
Oh Lord above
It gives me something to believe in, yeah
Oh Lord arise
Sometimes I wish I didn't know now things I didn't know then
And give me something to believe in, yeayeah
To find my mother gone
Why she left I'll never know
It seemed like they got along
But one of these days I'd like to know
Just where it all went wrong
A woman torn to tears asks
Who the real criminals are
When they told her her husband died
Fighting in another country's drug wars
She said it isn't the kids on the streets without a dream
Shootin' up the dealers' smack
It's them red tape politicians
Taking all the drug lords' kickbacks
Isn't it funny what power and money
Can do to the soul of a man?
And give me something to believe in
If there's a Lord above
Ah give me something to believe in
If there's a Lord above
He got a second job at night now
Just to help pay the bills
And there he worked for the rest of his life
Because his wife had taken ill
Now he lives on a bottle of courage
He buys at the liquor store
He did his family real good
Until he couldn't do it anymore
Whatever he found or why he broke down
No one's really sure
Just needed something to believe in
If there's a Lord above
He needed something to believe in
Oh Lord arise
The cracks of society's race show on the old man's face
His eyes, blood red, laid to waste
Well, the mirror tells a different story
Than the one that's playing in my mind
Every time I swear I'm looking younger
The more lines that I find
I guess I learned to trade youth for wisdom
And lust in for romance
It's all written in the stages and phases
Of life's little dance
But when I want to bitch about growing old
I think, 'How many never had a chance?'
It gives me something to believe in, yeah
Oh Lord arise
It gives me something to believe in, yeah
Oh Lord, Lord arise
Something to believe in
Oh Lord above
It gives me something to believe in, yeah
Oh Lord arise
Sometimes I wish I didn't know now things I didn't know then
And give me something to believe in, yeayeah
more tracks from the album
Flesh & Blood
- Something to Believe In
- Valley of Lost Souls
- Don’t Give Up an Inch
- Life Goes On
- Poor Boy Blues
- Ball and Chain
- Let It Play
- Swampjuice (Soul-O)
- Ride the Wind
- (Flesh & Blood) Sacrifice
- Come Hell or High Water
- Strange Days of Uncle Jack
- Life Loves a Tragedy
- Unskinny Bop
- Something to Believe In (acoustic version)
From the albums
- Flesh & Blood (1990)
- Best of Ballads & Blues (2003)
Poison popular songs
- Every Rose Has Its Thorn
- Talk Dirty to Me
- Something to Believe In
- Fallen Angel
- Unskinny Bop
- Nothing But a Good Time
- Life Goes On
- I Won’t Forget You
- Look What The Cat Dragged In
- Ride the Wind
- Strange Days of Uncle Jack
- I Won’t Forget You (single version)
- Come Hell or High Water
- Wishful Thinkin’
- Mr. Smiley
- Unskinny Bop (live)
- (Flesh & Blood) Sacrifice
- No More Lookin’ Back
- Drum Solo
- Get Ya Some
- Doin As I See On My TV
- Strike Up The Band
- Every Rose Has Its Thorn (MTV Unplugged)
- Bad To Be Good