Changes - Emcee Makaveli Don

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 ni**a

He's a hero

Give the crack to the kids

Who the hell cares

One less hungry mouth on the welfare

First ship 'em d**e

And let 'em deal to brothers

Give 'em guns step back

And watch 'em kill each other

It's time to fight back

That's what huey said

2 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 2 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

That's the way it is

Come on come on

That's just the way it is

Changes

Things'll never be the same

That's just the way it is

That's just the way it is

Things'll 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

Are 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 by

To see a black president

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 they stayin' in the d**e 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 kids

I gotta get paid

Well hey

That's the way it is

Come on come on

That's just the way it is

Things'll never be the same

That's just the way it is

Come on come on come on

That's just the way it is

Things'll never be the same

That's just the way it is

You 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

There's war on the streets

And the war in the middle east

Instead of war on poverty

They got a war on ***

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 facts

Givin' 'em 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

But 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

That's just the way it is

Things'll never be the same

That's just the way it is

That's just the way it is

Things'll never be the same

That's just the way it is

Some things will never change