Changes

Come on, come on
I see no changes, wake up in the morning and I ask myself
Is life worth living, should I blast myself?
I'm tired of bein' poor, and even worse, I'm black
My stomach hurts, so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch
Cops give a damn about a negro
Pull the trigger, kill a n-, he's a hero

Give the cr- to the kids who the hell cares
One less hungry mouth on the welfare
First ship 'em dope and let 'em deal the brothers
Give 'em guns, step back, watch 'em kill each other
It's time to fight back that's what Huey said
Two shots in the dark, now Huey's dead
I got love for my brother, but we can never go nowhere

Unless we share with each other
We gotta start makin' changes
Learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers
And that's how it's supposed to be
How can the devil take a brother, if he's close to me?
I'd love to go back to when we played as kids
But things changed, that's the way it is

(Come on, come on)
That's just the way it is (change)
Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is (that's just the way it is for us)
Aww, yeah (hear me)

(Oh no, oh, no) (come on, come on, come on)
That's just the way it is (that's just the way it is) (the way it is)
(Somethings) things will never be the same
(Never be the same yeah, yeah, yeah, aww yeah)
That's just the way it is (the way it is)
Aww, yeah (come on, come on)

I see no changes, all I see is racist faces
Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races
We under, I wonder what it takes to make this
One better place, let's erase the wasted
Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right
'Cause mo' black and white is smokin' cr- tonight
And only time we chill is when we kill each other
It takes skill to be real, time to heal each other (kill each other)
And although it seems heaven sent
We ain't ready, to see a black President

It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact
The penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks
But some things will never change
Try to show another way but you stayin' in the dope game
Now tell me, what's a mother to do?
Bein' real don't appeal to the brother in you (yeah)
You gotta operate the easy way
(I made a G today) but you made it in a sleazy way
Sellin' cr- to the kid (I gotta get paid)
Well hey, well, that's the way it is

(Come on, come on)
That's just the way it is (change)
Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is (that's just the way it is for us)
Aww, yeah

(Oh no, oh no) (come on, come on, come on)
That's just the way it is (that's just the way it is) (the way it is)
(Somethings) things will never be the same
(Never be the same yeah, yeah, yeah, aww yeah)
That's just the way it is (the way it is)
Aww, yeah (aww, yeah, aww, yeah)

We gotta make a change
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes
Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
And let's change the way we treat each other
You see, the old way wasn't working
So it's on us to do what we gotta do, to survive

And still I see no changes, can't a brother get a little peace?
There's war in the streets and war in the Middle East
Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs
So the police can bother me
And I ain't never did a crime, I ain't have to do
But now, I'm back with the facts givin' 'em back to you
Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up
Crack you up and pimps smack you up
You gotta learn to hold ya own
They get jealous when they see ya, with ya mobile phone

But tell the cops, they can't touch this
I don't trust this, when they try to rush I bust this
That's the sound of my tool, you say it ain't cool?
My mama didn't raise no fool
And as long as I stay black, I gotta stay strapped
And I never get to lay back
'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the paybacks
Some buck that I roughed up way back
Comin' back after all these years
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat, that's the way it is

That's just the way it is (the way it is, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is (the way it is)
Aww, yeah (somethings will never change) (oh my)

(You're my brother, you're my sister)
That's just the way it is (the way it is, the way it is)
Things will never be the same
(You're my brother, you're my sister)
That's just the way it is
Aww, yeah (somethings will never change)