I BELIEVE Lyrics

Old man Wrigley lived in that white house down the street where I grew up

Mama used to send me over with things we struck a friendship up

Spent a few long summers out on his old porch swing

Said he was in the war, when in the Navy

Lost his wife and lost his baby

I broke down and I asked him one time

How you keep from going crazy

He said, I'll see my wife and son in just a little while

I asked him what he meant

He looked at me and smiled

Said I raised my hands, bowed my head

Finding more and more truth in the words written in red

They tell me that there's more to life than just what I can see

Oh, I believe

A few years later I was off to college

Talking to mom on the phone one night

Getting all caught up on the gossip

The ins and outs of the small town life

She said, oh by the way son

Old man Wrigley died

Later on that night I lay there thinking back

And I thought about a couple of long lost summers

And I didn't know where to cry or laugh

If ever there was anybody who deserved a ticket to the other side

It would be that sweet old man who looked me in the eye

And said I raised my hands, bowed my head

Finding more and more truth in the words written in red

They tell me that there's more to life than just what I can see

I can't quote the book, the chapter, not the verse

You can't tell me it all ends in a slow ride in a hearse

You know I'm more and more convinced the longer that I live

Yeah this can't be, no this can't be, no this can't be all there is

Lord I raise my hands and I bow my head

Oh I'm finding more and more truth in words written in red

They tell me that there's more to this than just what I can see

I believe

Oh I, I, I, I, I, I believe

I believe

I believe

I believe

I believe

I believe

I believe

I believe