Something To Believe In (Alternate/Acoustic)

Something to Believe In (Alternate/Acoustic) - Poison

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

For 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

Or when they told her her husband died

Fighting in another country's ** wars

She said it isn't the kids on the streets without a dream

Shooting up the dealers smack

It's them red tape politicians

Taking all the ** 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 yeah

If there's a lord above

Ah give me something to believe in yeah

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

'Cause his wife had taken ill

And 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

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

Incomprehensible

On the old man's face

His eyes blood red laid to waste

Well the mirror tells a different story

Then 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 b**ch about growing old

I think how many never had a chance

It gives me something to believe in

Oh lord arise

It gives me something to believe in

Oh lardy lord arise

Something to believe in

Oh lord above

It gives me something to believe in

Oh lord arise

Sometimes I wish I didn't know now

Things I did know then

And give me something to believe in