Change (Explicit) - J. Cole

Written by：Jermaine Cole

My intuition is telling me there'll be better days

Yeah

My intuition is telling me there'll be better days

I like this tone

Yeah my intuition is telling me there'll be better days

I sit in silence and find whenever I meditate

My fears alleviate my tears evaporate

My faith don't deviate ideas don't have a date

But see I'm growing and getting stronger with every breath

Bringing me closer to heaven's doors with every step

As we speak I'm at peace no longer scared to die

Most don't believe in God and so they terrified

It's either that or they be fearing they gon' go to hell

Asking the father for forgiveness God

I'm overwhelmed

As if he's spiteful like them white folks that control the jail

See I believe if God is real he'd never judge a man

Because he knows us all and therefore he would understand

The ignorance that make a take his brother's life

The bitterness and pain that got him beating on his wife

I know you desperate for a change at the pen glide

But the only real change come from inside

But the only real change come from inside

But the only real change come from

In cemeteries or in chains I see men cry

But the only real change come from inside

But the only real change come from inside

But the only real change come from

Yeah my chosen religion Jesus piece frozen from sinnin'

Doin' dirt hoping to God he know my intentions

To see a million 'fore I see a casket

I got a baby on the way know he gon' be a bastard

I'm living fast like I'm in a drag race how that cash taste

When I was a senior I was ballin' on my classmates

Put three bullets in my car one hit the gas tank

Know I got a angel cause I'm supposed to have a halo

Right now my lifestyle destined for a federal facility

For my ability to make them birds fly

Fiends wanna get higher than a bird's eye view

And who am I tell a what to do

I just supply it's economics

My business ain't got the suit and tie

Keep a pistol at all times want what's mine

I can't oblige dog I work too hard

So reach for it get referred to God I'm going hard

I know you desperate for a change at the pen glide

But the only real change come from inside

But the only real change come from inside

But the only real change come from

In cemeteries or in chains I see men cry

But the only real change come from inside

But the only real change come from inside

But the only real change come from

Yeah prodigal son got a new gun this one

Don't run out of ammo lately been working on my handles

Can I ball become a star and remain my self

If I fall dust it off and regain my self

F**k ''em all they don't know all the pain I felt

I'm in awe after all the fame I felt I evolve

I no longer bury demons I be a vessel for the truth

Until I'm barely breathing I'm singing

Life is all about the evolution

I give up I give in I move back a little

I live up I look up now I'm back for more

You can dream but don't neglect the execution

I give up I give in I move back a little

I live up I look up now I'm back for more

Time is short that's what somebody told me

I give up I give in I move back a little

I live up I look up now I'm back for more

Too short to keep following your homies

I give up I give in I move back a little

I live up I look up now I'm back for more

I reminisce back to a time where threw they hands

All of a sudden pop a trunk and then we scram

Finger on trigger make a little understand

What it's like to finally be the motherf**kin' man

Eyes wide that's from the power that the coward feels

Die over b**ches disrespecting dollar bills

Bloodshed that turned the city to a battlefield

I call it poison you call it real

That's how you feel

Pistols be poppin' and drop in a heartbeat

Scattered like roaches a body laid on the concrete

Body laid on the concrete

Look somebody laid on the concrete

No time for that ain't no lookin' back cause I'm running too

I made it home I woke up and turned on the morning news

Overcame with a feeling I can't explain

Cause that was my James that was slain he was 22

Last night at around

He was 22