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 nigga he's a hero
Give the crack 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, and 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
That's just the way it is
Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is
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 both black and white is smokin' crack tonight
And 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 heaven sent, we ain't ready, to see a black President, uhh
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, "I made a G today" But you made it in a sleazy way
Sellin' crack to the kid. " I gotta get paid," Well hey, well 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
That's just the way it is
Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is
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, it's war on the streets and the 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 blacks givin' it back to you
Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up, crack you up and pimp 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 pay backs, 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 uhh
That's just the way it is
Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is
That's just the way it is
Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is
Some things will never change
