Changes

[00:00.99] 2Pac

[00:02.62] Changes

[00:03.14] Greatest Hits

[00:03.40] Ooh, yeah (Ooh)

[00:15.09] (Come on, come on)

[00:15.88] I see no changes, wake up in the morning and I ask myself

[00:19.05] Is life worth livin'? Should I blast myself?

[00:21.20] I'm tired of bein' poor and, even worse, I'm black

[00:23.07] My stomach hurts so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch

[00:25.47] Cops give a damn about a negro

[00:27.60] Pull the trigger, kill a nigga, he's a hero

[00:29.73] Give the crack to the kids, who the hell cares?

[00:31.86] One less hungry mouth on the welfare

[00:34.27] First ship 'em dope and let 'em deal to brothers

[00:36.11] Give 'em guns, step back, watch 'em kill each other

[00:38.52] "It's time to fight back, " that's what Huey said

[00:40.39] Two shots in the dark, now Huey's dead

[00:42.79] I got love for my brother

[00:43.84] But we can never go nowhere unless we share with each other

[00:46.81] We gotta start makin' changes

[00:48.41] Learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers

[00:51.59] And that's how it's supposed to be

[00:52.91] How can the Devil take a brother if he's close to me? Uh

[00:55.82] I'd love to go back to when we played as kids

[00:57.70] But things change, and that's the way it is

[01:02.21] That's just the way it is (Changes)

[01:06.46] Things'll never be the same

[01:10.98] That's just the way it is (That's the way it is, what?)

[01:13.92] Aww, yeah-yeah (Hear me)

[01:17.38] (Oh my, oh my, come on, come on)

[01:19.51] That's just the way it is (That's just the way it is, the way it is)

[01:23.75] Things'll never be the same

[01:26.15] (Never be the same, yeah, yeah, yeah, aww, yeah)

[01:28.01] That's just the way it is (Way it is)

[01:31.19] Aww, yeah (Come on, come on)

[01:33.58] I see no changes, all I see is racist faces

[01:36.50] Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races

[01:38.37] We under, I wonder what it takes to make this

[01:40.77] One better place, let's erase the wasted

[01:43.17] Take the evil out the people, they'll be actin' right

[01:45.29] 'Cause both black and white are smokin' crack tonight

[01:47.68] And the only time we chill is when we kill each other (Kill each other)

[01:49.55] It takes skill to be real, time to heal each other

[01:51.94] And although it seems heaven-sent

[01:53.53] We ain't ready to see a black president, uh (Oh-ooh)

[01:56.20] It ain't a secret, don't conceal the fact

[01:57.79] The penitentiary's packed and it's filled with blacks

[02:00.43] But some things will never change (Never Change)

[02:02.04] Try to show another way, but you stayin' in the dope game (Ooh)

[02:04.95] Now tell me, what's a mother to do?

[02:06.31] Bein' real don't appeal to the brother in you (Yeah)

[02:09.26] You gotta operate the easy way

[02:10.85] "I made a G today, " but you made it in a sleazy way

[02:13.51] Sellin' crack to the kids (Oh-oh), "I gotta get paid" (Oh)

[02:15.64] Well hey, well that's the way it is

[02:19.88] That's just the way it is (Changes)

[02:24.43] Things'll never be the same

[02:28.67] That's just the way it is (That's the way it is, what?)

[02:31.88] Aww, yeah (Hear me)

[02:34.81] (Oh my, oh my, come on, come on)

[02:37.21] That's just the way it is (That's just the way it is, the way it is)

[02:41.73] Things'll never be the same

[02:45.44] (Never be the same, yeah, yeah, yeah, aww, yeah)

[02:45.97] That's just the way it is (Way it is)

[02:49.17] Aww, yeah (Aww, yeah, aww, yeah)

[02:51.56] We gotta make a change

[02:54.74] It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes

[02:57.40] Let's change the way we eat

[02:59.26] Let's change the way we live

[03:01.12] And let's change the way we treat each other

[03:03.50] You see, the old way wasn't workin'

[03:05.10] So it's on us to do what we gotta do to survive

[03:08.30] And still I see no changes, can't a brother get a little peace?

[03:11.50] It's war on the streets and the war in the Middle East (Ooh, yeah)

[03:14.17] Instead of war on poverty

[03:15.50] They got a war on drugs so the police can bother me

[03:18.43] And I ain't never did a crime I ain't have to do

[03:20.57] But now I'm back with the facts, givin' it back to you (Ooh)

[03:22.69] Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up

[03:25.08] Crack you up and pimp-smack you up

[03:26.95] You gotta learn to hold your own

[03:28.55] They get jealous when they see you with your mobile phone

[03:31.21] But tell the cops they can't touch this

[03:33.07] I don't trust this, when they try to rush, I bust this

[03:35.72] That's the sound of my tool, you say it ain't cool

[03:37.85] My mama didn't raise no fool (Oh)

[03:39.98] And as long as I stay black, I gotta stay strapped

[03:42.67] And I never get to lay back

[03:44.26] 'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the payback

[03:46.40] Some buck that I roughed up way back

[03:48.79] Comin' back after all these years

[03:50.11] "Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat, " that's the way it is, uh

[03:55.18] That's just the way it is (Just the way it is, yeah, yeah, yeah)

[03:59.41] Things'll never be the same (Yeah)

[04:03.67] That's just the way it is (The way it is)

[04:06.89] Aww, yeah (Some things will never change, oh my)

[04:10.33] (I'm tryna make a change)

[04:11.39] (You're my brother, you're my sister, yeah)

[04:12.46] That's just the way it is (The way it is, the way it is)

[04:16.44] Things'll never be the same (You're my brother, you're my sister)

[04:21.02] That's just the way it is, aww, yeah

[04:25.54] Some things will never change