[Intro: 2 Pac]
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?
[Verse One: 2 Pac]
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
[Chorus 2X:
2 Pac]
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?
[Verse Two:
2 Pac]
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
[Chorus]
[Verse Three: Kadafi]
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 f*cked
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
[2 Pac] Now tell me
[Chorus]
[Outro:
spoken word]
Who do you believe in?
Is it Buddah, Jehovah, or Jah? Or
Allah?
Is it Jesus? Is it God? Or is just yourself?
Definately 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
[2 Pac]
Who do you believe in?
I put my faith in God,
blessed and still breathin
[singing while 2 Pac speaks]
Who do
you believe in? Put my faith in God, and
Blessed and still
breathin
[singer + (2 Pac)]
Even though it's hard (Who do you
believe in?)
That's who I believe in (Put my faith in God)
Before I'm
leavin (Even though it's hard)
I'm askin the grievin
(Before I'm leavin
I'm askin the grievin - who do you believe in?)
Who do you believe in? (Who
do you believe in?)
Who do you (Blessed and still breathin)
Oh blessed, oh
blessed
(Before I'm leavin I'm askin the grievin - who do you believe
in?)
[singer]
Oh who do you
Do you believe in
Hohhhhh-ohhhhh
[2 Pac over singer]
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?
[singer + (2 Pac)]
I'm askin (Who do you
believe in?)
I'm askin you (Put my faith in God)
(That's who I believe
in)
(Before I'm leavin I'm askin the grievin - who do you believe
in?)
[2 Pac]
Who do you believe in?
I'm blessed and still
breathin
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? [echoes to
fade]