I Believe by Blessid Union of Souls (1995)

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Blessid Union of Souls

I Believe is a single from Blessid Union of Souls’ debut album home. The American alternative rock’s song reached number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 as one of their most popular songs. The song was from the band’s vocalist, Eliot Sloan, personal experience of his interrational relationship with girlfriend, Lisa whose father forced her to stop seeing him. [1]

I Believe was written by Eliot Sloan, Matt Senatore and Jeff Pence, released on February 18, 1995. [2]

Black Empowerment

In an interview with The Celebrity Cafe, Eliot said that the song was inspired by his personal love story, an interacial romance, when once he dated a girl named Lisa and has to separate due to racial issues as Lisa’s father threatened her to cut the college tuition if she keeps seeing Eliot.

“Well, it's like... when we did that song, we were just like... there were so many things going on in society. We just wanted to do something positive. We just wanted to touch on a lot of points that society seems to be having a little trouble with as a whole. Racism was one of the things we wanted to distill in the song. So we were like, wanted to mention something about a relationship that I was in that people could relate to. It's really cool because a lot of people have been really relating to that. A lot of people have been in relationships where their parents or their friends didn't want them seeing this other person for whatever reason, whether it was race, religion or background, or whatever. We just really believe that love is the answer to this stuff. Without it trying to sound hokey or whatever that's just the honest to good answer. I'm a witness to that. I get along with anybody who's open minded, and who has an open heart to things. That's the same with everybody in this band. We've all got different backgrounds and we all agree on the same things. This is just one of them. There doesn't have to be this much tension out there. There really doesn't. We feel like it's very unnecessary in a lot of situations. We just wanted to install some hope in people and hopefully people will listen to the lyrics and get that out of the song."

— Eliot Sloan, in an interview with the Celebrity Cafe. [3]

Below is the part of the band's song I Believe performed by lessed Union of Souls:

I've been seeing Lisa now for a little over a year

She says she's never been so happy but Lisa lives in fear

That one day daddy's gonna find out she's in love

With a nigger from the streets [4]

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