(featuring Yaki Kadafi)
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[Intro: 2Pac]
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Let us pray
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Heavenly Father, hear a nigga down here
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Before I go to sleep
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Tell me, who do you believe in?
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Who do you believe in?
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[Verse One: 2Pac]
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I see mothers in black cryin, brothers in packs dyin
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Plus everybody's high, too doped up to ask why
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Watchin our own downfall, witness the end
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It's like we don't believe in God cause we livin in sin
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I asked my homie on the block why he strapped, he laughed
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Pointed his pistol as the cop car passed and blast
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It's just another murder, nobody mourns no more
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My tear drops gettin bigger but can't figure what I'm cryin for
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Is it the miniature caskets, little babies
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Victims of a stray, from drug dealers gone crazy
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Maybe it's just the drugs, visions of how the block was
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Crack came and it was strange how it rocked us
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Perhaps the underlyin fact stay high explain genocide
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It's when we ride on our own kind
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What is it we all fear, reflections in the mirror
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We can't escape fate, the end is gettin nearer
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[Chorus 2X: 2Pac]
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Who do you believe in?
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I put my faith in God, blessed and still breathin
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And even though it's hard, that's who I believe in
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Before I'm leavin, I'm askin the grievin - who do you believe in?
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[Verse Two: 2Pac]
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Can't close my eyes cause all I see is terror
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I hate the man in the mirror
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Cause his reflection makes the pain turn realer
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Times of Armageddeon, murder in mass amounts
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In this society where only gettin the cash counts
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I started out as a beginner
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Entered the criminal lifestyle became a sinner
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I make my money and vacate, evade prison
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Went from the chosen one to outcast, unforgiven
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And all the Hennessy and weed can't hide, the pain I feel inside
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You know, it's like I'm livin just to die
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I fall on my knees and beg for mercy, not knowin if I'm worthy
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Livin life thinkin no man can hurt me
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So I'm askin -- before I lay me down to sleep
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Before you judge me, look at all the shit you did to me, my misery
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I rose up from the slums, made it out the flames
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In my search for fame will I change? I'm askin
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[Chorus]
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[Verse Three: Kadafi]
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Faith in Allah, believe in me and this plastic
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Cause so far I done witnessed to many dead niggaz in caskets
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With they chest plates stretched like elastic
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And what's worse I'm on front line, holdin down camp, still mashin
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Heard my cousin, one of the old heads from the block
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Just came home October of '95 back in Yardsville stuck
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with a three to five, if he don't act up, now he realize
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If you don't stay wise, then in this game you fucked
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Talk to my baby girl, give me the word on what she heard
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One of the grimmies is snitchin, Diamond a stool pigeon I talked to him
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He said he didn't, my man said he did, in fact he's sure
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Cause he just came home off of bail
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[2Pac] Now tell me
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[Chorus]
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[Outro: spoken word]
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Who do you believe in?
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Is it Buddah, Jehovah, or Jah? Or Allah?
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Is it Jesus? Is it God? Or is just yourself?
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Definately not to be imposed, being a demon
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Because this is the joy of believing!
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Men, to believe in yourselves
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But for sure, the higher power
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Resides only to ride in the heart of the true
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From the soul, of the man; for truth never has an alibi
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In the poetry, or in it's realm
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That's what pulls all words together
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Just to understand, that every man, is his OWN man
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And only man can satisfy the man
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Only the soul of the man, the feelings of the man
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The for realness of the man
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You can't shake the man when you feel the man you know the man
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And you gotta call yourself because you are that man
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[2Pac]
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Who do you believe in?
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I put my faith in God, blessed and still breathin
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[singing while 2Pac speaks]
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Who do you believe in? Put my faith in God, and
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Blessed and still breathin
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[singer] + (2Pac)
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Even though it's hard (Who do you believe in?)
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That's who I believe in (Put my faith in God)
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Before I'm leavin (Even though it's hard)
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I'm askin the grievin
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(Before I'm leavin I'm askin the grievin - who do you believe in?)
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Who do you believe in? (Who do you believe in?)
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Who do you (Blessed and still breathin)
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Oh blessed, oh blessed
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(Before I'm |