I came home from school on Tuesday, to find my mother gone While 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 Oh and 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, shooting up the dealers smack It's them red tape politicians, taking all the drug lord's 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, I'll 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, cause his wife had taken him 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, the tracks of society's race show on the old man's face His eyes blood-redly twinkled If there's a lord above Well the mirror tells a different story 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'm on a bitch 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 lordy 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 didn't know then And give me something to believe in And give me something to believe in