Oooh, yeah
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 trying to be a boy
And even worse I'm black
My stomach hurts so I'm looking
For a purse to snatch
Cops give a damn
About our needs, bro
Pull the tigger, kill a nigger
He's a hero
Giving crack to the kids
Who the hell cares
One less hungry mouth
On the welfare
First, ship 'em dope
And let 'em deal with brothers
Give 'em guns, step back
Watch them kill each other
Its 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 could never go nowhere
Unless we share with each other
We gotta start making changes
Learn to see me as your brother
Instead of two distant strangers
And that's how its supposed to be
How can the devil take a brother
If he's close to me
I let it go back
To when we played as kids
But things change
That's the way it is
(Come on, come on)
That's just the way it is
Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is
Aw, yeah
(Come on, come on)
That's just the way it is
Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is
Aw, yeah
I see no changes
All I see is racist faces
Misplaced hate makes
Disgrace for races
Log on to hide ad.
We under, I wonder
What it takes to make this
More better place
Let's erase the wasted
Take the evil out the people
They'll be acting right
Cause both black and white
Are smoking crack tonight
And the only time we chill
Is when we kill each other
It takes skills to be real
Trying to heal each other
And I know it seems heaven sent
We ain't prepped to
See a black president
It ain't a secret
Don't conceal the facts
The penitentiary's back
And it's filled with blacks
But some things will never change
Try to show another way but this thing
And then the dope gang
Now tell me
What's a mother to do
Being real don't appeal
To the brother in you
You gotta operate the easy way
I made a G today
But you made it in a sleazy way
Selling crack to a 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
Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is
Aw, yeah
(Come on, come on)
That's just the way it is
Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is
Aw, yeah
We gotta make a change
It's time for us as a people
To start making 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 on the streets
And a war in the middle east
Instead a 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 am back with the facts
Giving 'em back to you
Don't let them jack you up
Back you up, crack you up
And pimp smack you up
You gotta learn to hold your own
They get jealous when they see you
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
At the sound of my tune
You say it ain't cool
My mama didn't raise no fool
And it's wrong
That this stayed black
I got to stage trap
And I never get to lay back
Cause I alwayz gotta worry
'Bout the pay back
Some thug that I roughed up way back
Commin back after all these years
Rat tat tat tat tat
That's the way it is
That's just the way it is
Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is
Aw, yeah
That's just the way it is
Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is
Aw, yeah
Some things will never change
