Changes

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 & 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 & 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

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 instead 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 and that's the way it is

Bridge w/ changing ad libs

Come on come on

That's just the way it is

Things'll never be the same

That's just the way it is

Aww yeah

Repeat

2

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 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 kid " I gotta get paid "

Well hey well that's the way it is

Bridge

Talking:

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

3

And still I see no changes can't a brother get a little peace

It's war on the streets & the war in the Middle East