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Changes

In the style of

2 Pac

Lyrics

come on come on
i see no changes
wake up
in the mornin'
and i ask myself
is life worth livin'
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#gg#
he's a hero

give the crack
to the kids
who the hell cares
one less ugly 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
'stead of two
distant strangers

and that's how
it's s'posed to be
how can the devil
take a brother
if he's close to me
uh

i'd love to go back
to when we
played as kids but
things change
and that's
the way it is

come on
come on
change
that's the way it is
bust this
damn yeah

come on
come on come on
that's just
the way it is
some things
uh
let's make changes
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 actin' right
'cause both
black and white
is smokin'
crack tonight

and the only time
we chill is when
we kill each other
it takes skill
to be real
time to heal
each other

and although
it seems heavensent
we ain't ready
to see
a black president uh

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

you gotta operate
the easy way
but ya made it
in a sleazy way
sellin' crack
to the kids

well hey
well that's
the way it is
come on
come on

change
that's the way it is
bust it
damn yeah

come on
come on come on
that's just
the way it is
some things
come on change 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 workin'
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
it's war
on the streets
and the war
in the middle east

'stead 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 blacks
givin' it back to you

don't let 'em
jack you up
black you up
crack you up
and pimp slap you up

you gotta learn
to hold ya own
they get jealous
when they see ya
with your
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 payback
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
uh

that's the way it is
change
some things'll
never change uh
yeah that's just
the way it is
uh

some things'll
never change
time to change
that's just
the way it is
change change
change some things'll
never change

change
that's just
the way it is
some things'll
never change

Details

• Duration : 4:32
• Key : G
• Genre : R&B/Hip-Hop
• Year released : 1998
• Language : English

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