[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 [00:04.27]You preachin' about the promised land [00:07.98]He tells me to believe in Jesus [00:11.29]Steals the money from my hand [00:15.22]Some say he was a good man [00:18.75]But lord I think he sinned yeah [00:24.60]One two three [00:27.98]Twenty-two years of mental tears [00:31.26]Cries a suicidal Vietnam vet [00:34.63]Who fought a losing war on a foreign shore [00:38.16]To find his country didn't want him back [00:42.31]Their bullets took his best friend in Saigon [00:44.93]Our lawyers took his wife and kids no regrets [00:49.55]In a time I don't remember know [00:52.59]At a war he can't forget [00:56.31]He cried forgive me for what I've done there [01:00.33]I never meant the things I did [01:08.14]And give me something to believe in [01:12.54]If there's a lord above [01:15.08]And give me something to believe in [01:19.89]Oh lord arise [01:23.83]My best friend died a lonely man [01:27.06]In some Palm Springs hotel room [01:31.12]I got the call last Christmas Eve [01:34.24]And they told me the news [01:38.42]I tried all night not to break down and cry [01:41.57]But the tears rolled down my face [01:45.39]I felt so cold and empty [01:48.08]Or like a lost soul out of place [01:52.72]And the mirror mirror it's on the wall [01:55.90]Sees my smile it fades again [02:03.80]And give me something to believe in [02:08.55]If there's a lord above [02:11.26]And give me something to believe in [02:15.63]Oh lord arise [02:19.37]Sometimes I wish to god I didn't know now [02:23.33]The things I didn't know then [02:30.78]Would you gan tell me home [03:12.62]I drive by the homeless sleeping on a cold dark street [03:17.46]Like bodies in an open grave [03:21.11]Underneath the broken old neon sign [03:24.22]That used to read Jesus saves [03:28.32]A mile away live the rich folks [03:31.46]And I see how they're living it up [03:35.20]While the poor they eat from hand to mouth [03:38.59]The rich is drinkin' from a golden cup [03:42.68]And it just makes me wonder [03:45.32]Why so many lose so few win [03:53.58]And give me something to believe in [03:58.65]If there's a lord above [04:01.25]And give me something to believe in [04:05.82]Oh lord arise [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 [04:20.29]Oh lord lord arise [04:22.88]And give me something to believe in [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 [04:38.26]Sometimes I wish did gonna didn't know now [04:42.22]The things I didn't know then [04:48.86]And [04:57.92]And give me something to believe in