[ti:I Believed] [ar:Aaron Tippin] [al:Stars And Stripes] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Believed - Aaron Tippin [00:19.48]In a tiny town where the biggest things [00:22.22]Were the water tower and a young boy's dreams [00:25.91]I believed [00:29.71]In a little house of simple means [00:32.33]Where doing without was a common scene [00:36.14]I believed [00:40.13]On a dried up square of worthless earth [00:42.81]Where we scratched our living out of the dirt [00:45.81]I believed [00:50.62]In a little brown church where I first heard [00:53.30]The choir sing and the preacher's word [00:56.23]I believed oh I believed [01:01.04]And the closer that I looked within [01:03.28]The further I could see [01:06.03]And I really didn't have much other choice [01:10.77]So I believed [01:14.14]In a high-rise world of steel and glass [01:16.70]Where a man dies young if he don't think fast [01:20.26]I believed [01:21.51](I believed) [01:24.45]On the streets where the truth is hard to find [01:26.87]And what's in it for me is the bottom line [01:29.55]I believed [01:31.86](I believed) [01:34.99]In a place where people don't seem to care [01:37.49]They turn their backs like you're not there [01:40.79]I believed [01:45.28]Yeah where anything goes it usually does [01:48.02]I held my breath and bit my tongue [01:51.21]And I believed oh I believed [01:55.90]The closer that I looked within [01:58.64]The further I could see [02:00.75]And I really didn't have much other choice [02:04.31]So I believed [02:11.61]In a higher place in a deeper faith [02:16.73]In a power stronger than you or me [02:21.22]I believed [02:53.30]Now when they put that granite on my grave [02:56.17]All I want that stone to say is [02:59.72]I believed [03:02.48]And where I'm from and the woman I love [03:06.64]The job I did and God above [03:09.44]I believed I believed I believed [03:25.35]I believed