1. When the kid who lives just down the street
Takes a gun to school and shoots his teacher
How am I supposed to believe in love?
When a father who’s supposed to protect her
Turns around and rapes his daughter
Tell me, how am I supposed to believe in love?
There’s an old man sleeping on a bench
Cause he can’t afford to pay his rent
In the shadow of a high rise just above
And a mother stoned upon a couch
With a crying baby’s empty mouth
Tell me, how am I supposed to believe in love?

2. A couple caves in grief and loss
For a child whose life was just cut off
Tell me, how am I supposed to believe in love?
And a troubled teen will lose her soul
When she sells herself for a spoon of coke
Tell me, how am I supposed to believe in love?
And a young man can’t pronounce the name
Of the city he must now defend
In a desert land where strife has long gone on
And as millions starve and die in torment
An intern beds a president
How am I supposed to believe in love?

Chorus 1:
Believe in love, believe in love
Tell me, how am I supposed to believe in love?
Believe in love, believe in love
Tell me, how am I supposed to believe in love?

3. It’s so easy just to turn away
To ignore the stranger’s crippled gate
Tell me, how am I supposed to believe in love?
And so many soon will lose their homes
And their financier walks free on bond
Tell me, how am I supposed to believe in love?
I’ve been told that God is love
And that there is help from up above
Yet the suffering on this earth bears no relief
How can love be in His name
And allow corruption, all this pain
Tell me, how am I supposed to believe in love?

Bridge:
Maybe if
God would come down here
Become a man
And cry our tears
Show us how to live
Free from fear
Then maybe, just maybe
Maybe, maybe, maybe

Chorus 2:
I’d believe in love, believe in love
Oh, maybe then I could believe in love
Believe in love, believe in love
Oh, maybe then I could believe in love

Believe in love, believe in love
How am I supposed to believe in love?
Believe in love, believe in love
Tell me, how am I supposed to believe in
Maybe then I could believe in,
How am I supposed to believe in love?