Changes

[00:23.04] Come on come on

[00:23.77] I see no changes wake up in the morning and I ask myself

[00:30.27] Is life worth living should I blast myself?

[00:31.04] I'm tired of bein' poor and even worse I'm black

[00:32.04] My stomach hurts so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch

[00:33.76] Cops give a damn about a negro

[00:34.77] Pull the trigger kill a nigga he's a hero

[00:35.26] Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares

[00:35.77] One less hungry mouth on the welfare

[00:36.53] First ship 'em dope and let 'em deal the brothers

[00:37.52] Give 'em guns step back watch 'em kill each other

[00:37.77] It's time to fight back that's what Huey said

[00:38.77] Two shots in the dark now Huey's dead

[00:39.02] I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere

[00:39.52] Unless we share with each other

[00:40.78] We gotta start makin' changes

[00:41.77] Learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers

[00:42.27] And that's how it's supposed to be

[00:43.27] How can the Devil take a brother if he's close to me?

[00:43.52] I'd love to go back to when we played as kids

[00:44.52] But things changed, and that's the way it is

[00:45.02] That's just the way it is

[00:46.28] Things will never be the same

[00:47.04] That's just the way it is

[00:48.27] Aww yeah

[00:48.77] That's just the way it is

[00:49.26] Things will never be the same

[00:49.77] That's just the way it is

[00:50.26] Aww yeah

[00:50.77] I see no changes all I see is racist faces

[00:51.27] Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races

[00:52.27] We under I wonder what it takes to make this

[00:52.77] One better place, let's erase the wasted

[00:53.27] Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right

[00:54.03] 'Cause both black and white is smokin' crack tonight

[00:54.53] And only time we chill is when we kill each other

[00:55.02] It takes skill to be real, time to heal each other

[00:56.01] And although it seems heaven sent

[00:56.55] We ain't ready, to see a black President, uhh

[00:57.27] It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact

[00:57.52] The penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks

[00:58.52] But some things will never change

[00:59.02] Try to show another way but you stayin' in the dope game

[00:59.77] Now tell me what's a mother to do

[01:00.28] Bein' real don't appeal to the brother in you

[01:01.78] You gotta operate the easy way

[01:02.77] "I made a G today" But you made it in a sleazy way

[01:03.28] Sellin' crack to the kid. " I gotta get paid, "

[01:04.52] Well hey, well that's the way it is

[01:05.02] That's just the way it is

[01:05.52] Things will never be the same

[01:06.02] That's just the way it is

[01:06.53] Aww yeah

[01:07.03] That's just the way it is

[01:07.54] Things will never be the same

[01:08.02] That's just the way it is

[01:09.02] Aww yeah

[01:09.80] We gotta make a change

[01:10.27] It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.

[01:10.76] Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live

[01:11.77] And let's change the way we treat each other.

[01:12.29] You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do

[01:12.77] What we gotta do, to survive.

[01:13.76] And still I see no changes can't a brother get a little peace

[01:14.27] It's war on the streets and the war in the Middle East

[01:15.80] Instead of war on poverty they got a war on drugs

[01:16.27] So the police can bother me

[01:16.77] And I ain't never did a crime I ain't have to do

[01:17.77] But now I'm back with the blacks givin' it back to you

[01:19.26] Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up,

[01:20.27] Crack you up and pimp smack you up

[01:20.77] You gotta learn to hold ya own

[01:21.52] They get jealous when they see ya with ya mobile phone

[01:22.05] But tell the cops they can't touch this

[01:22.77] I don't trust this when they try to rush I bust this

[01:25.52] That's the sound of my tool you say it ain't cool

[01:26.02] My mama didn't raise no fool

[01:26.52] And as long as I stay black I gotta stay strapped

[01:27.01] And I never get to lay back

[01:27.77] 'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs

[01:28.28] Some buck that I roughed up way back

[01:29.28] Comin' back after all these years

[01:31.78] Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat that's the way it is uhh

[01:32.51] That's just the way it is

[01:33.02] Things will never be the same

[01:33.53] That's just the way it is

[01:34.28] Aww yeah

[01:34.77] That's just the way it is

[01:35.26] Things will never be the same

[01:35.77] That's just the way it is

[01:36.28] Aww yeah

[01:36.77] Some things will never change