Title: Who Do You Believe In
Album: Better Dayz
Artist: Tupac Shakur ft Kadafi

Transcribed by: Jon of HitEmUp.com, AznfooI@aol.com, TwstdFlava@aol.com

 
[Tupac Talking]

Heavenly Father
Hear a nigga down here
Before I go to sleep
Who do you believe in?
Who do you believe in?

[Tupac]

I see mothers in black crying
Brothers in packs dying
Plus
everybody's
high
Too doped up to ask why
Watching our on downfall, witness the end
It's like we don't believe in God
c
ause we living in sin
I asked my homie on the block
w
hy he strapped
H
e laughed
Pointed his pistol as the cop car passed and blast
It's just another murder 
Nobody mourns no more
My teardrops getting bigger
But can't figure what I'm crying for
Is it the miniature caskets
?
L
ittle babies
Victims of a stray, from drug dealers gone crazy
Maybe its just the drugs
Visions of how the block was
Crack came and it was strange how it rocked us
Perhaps the underlying fact
s they hide

Explain genocide
It's when we ride on our own kind
What is it we all fear
?
R
eflections in the mirror
We can't escape fate
The end is getting nearer

[Chorus] 2x

Who do you believe in?
I put my faith in God 
Blessed and still breathing
And even though it's hard
That's who I believe in
Before I'm leaving
I'm askin
g
the grieving
Who do you believe in?

[Tupac]

Can't close my eyes cause all I see is terror 
I hate the man in the mirror
C
ause
his reflection makes the pain turn realer
Times of
Armageddon

Murder in mass amounts
In this society where only getting 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
Hennessey
and weed can't hide 
The pain I feel inside
You know
I
t's like I'm living just to die
I fall on my knees and beg for mercy
Not knowing if I'm worthy
Living life thinking no man can hurt me
So I'm asking
B
efore 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
W
ill I change?
And I'm asking

[Chorus] x2

[Kadafi]

Faith in Allah, believe in me, and it's plastic
C
ause
so far I done witnessed to many dead niggas in caskets
With they chest plates stretched like elastic 
And what's worse I'm on front line
Holding down camp still mashing
Heard my cousin
On
e of the old heads from the block
Just came home October of 95
Back in
Yardville
stuck with a three to five
I
f he don't act up
N
ow he realize
If you don't stay wise
T
hen in this game you fucked
Talk to my baby girl
Give me the word on what she heard
One of the gri
m
mies is snitching
Diamond a stool pigeon
I
talked
to him
H
e said he didn't 
My man said he did, in fact he sure 
C
ause
he just came home off a bid

[Chorus] x2

Who do you believe in?
Is it Buddah, J
e
hova
Or Jah? Or Allah?
Is it Jesus? Is it God?
Or is just yourself?
Definitely, not to be imposed
Even a demon
C
ause
this is the joy of the movement
Men, to believe in yourselves
But for sure, the higher power
Resides only to ride through the heart of the true
From the soul
,
of the man
For truth never has an alibi
In the poetry or in this round
That's what pulls our words together
Just to understand
T
hat 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

Tupac over Female Singing

Who do you believe in? (I put my faith in God)
Put my faith in God, and
Blessed and still breathing
Even though it's hard (who do you believe in?)
That's who I believe in
(even though it's hard)

Before I'm leaving
I'm asking the grieving (who do you believe in?)
Who do you believe in?
Who do you? (blessed and still breathing)
Oh, blessed (before I'm leaving, I'm asking the grieving)
Oh, blessed (who do you believe in?)
Yeah yeah

till fade ...

 

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