Believer by Imagine Dragons talks about the lead vocalist, Dan Reynolds, dealing with pain and turning it into something positive, a driver for his belief.
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First things first, I'ma say all the words inside my head
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I'm fired up and tired of the way that things have been, oh-ooh
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The way that things have been, oh-ooh-ooh
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Second thing second, don't you tell me what you think that I can be
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I'm the one at the sail, I'm the master of my sea, oh-ooh
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The master of my sea, oh-ooh-ooh
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I was broken from a young age, taking my sulking to the masses
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Write down my poems for the few, that looked at me, took to me, shook to me, feeling me
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Singing from heartache, from the pain, take up my message from the veins
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Speaking my lesson from the brain, seeing the beauty through the...
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Pain!
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You made me a, you made me a believer, believer
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You break me down, you build me up, believer, believer
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Oh, let the bullets fly, oh, let them rain
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My life, my love, my drive, they came from...
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Pain!
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You made me a, you made me a believer, believer
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Third things third, send a prayer to the ones up above
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All the hate that you've heard has turned your spirit to a dove, oh-ooh
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Your spirit up above, oh-ooh-ooh
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I was choking in the crowd, building my rain up in the cloud
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Falling like ashes to the ground, hoping my feelings, they would drown
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But they never did, ever lived, ebbing and flowing, inhibited, limited
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Till it broke open and rained down, it rained down, like...
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Pain!
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You made me a, you made me a believer, believer
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Pain!
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You break me down, you build me up, believer, believer
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Pain!
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Oh, let the bullets fly, oh, let them rain
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My life, my love, my drive, they came from...
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Pain!
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You made me a, you made me a believer, believer
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Last things last, by the grace of the fire and the flames
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You're the face of the future, the blood in my veins, oh-ooh
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The blood in my veins, oh-ooh-ooh
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But they never did, ever lived, ebbing and flowing, inhibited, limited
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Till it broke open and rained down, it rained down, like...
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Pain!
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You made me a, you made me a believer, believer
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Pain!
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You break me down, you build me up, believer, believer