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)