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Come on come on |
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I see no changes wake up in the morning and I ask myself |
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is life worth living should I blast myself? |
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I'm tired of bein' poor & even worse I'm black |
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my stomach hurts so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch |
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Cops give a damn about a negro |
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pull the trigger kill a nigga he's a hero |
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Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares |
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one less hungry mouth on the welfare |
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First ship 'em dope & let 'em deal the brothers |
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give 'em guns step back watch 'em kill each other |
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It's time to fight back that's what Huey said |
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2 shots in the dark now Huey's dead |
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I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere |
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unless we share with each other |
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We gotta start makin' changes |
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learn to see me as a brother instead of 2 distant strangers |
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and that's how it's supposed to be |
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How can the Devil take a brother if he's close to me? |
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I'd love to go back to when we played as kids |
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but things changed, and that's the way it is |
| [01:01.30]Bridge w/ changing ad libs] |
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Come on come on |
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That's just the way it is |
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Things'll never be the same |
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That's just the way it is |
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aww yeah |
| [01:16.39]Repeat] |
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I see no changes all I see is racist faces |
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misplaced hate makes disgrace to races |
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We under I wonder what it takes to make this |
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one better place, let's erase the wasted |
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Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right |
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'cause both black and white is smokin' crack tonight |
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and only time we chill is when we kill each other |
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it takes skill to be real, time to heal each other |
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And although it seems heaven sent |
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We ain't ready, to see a black President, uhh |
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It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact |
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the penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks |
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But some things will never change |
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try to show another way but you stayin' in the dope game |
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Now tell me what's a mother to do |
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bein' real don't appeal to the brother in you |
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You gotta operate the easy way |
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"I made a G today" But you made it in a sleazy way |
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sellin' crack to the kid. " I gotta get paid," |
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Well hey, well that's the way it is |
| [02:22.42]Bridge] |
|
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We gotta make a change... |
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It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes. |
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Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live |
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and let's change the way we treat each other. |
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You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do |
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what we gotta do, to survive. |
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And still I see no changes can't a brother get a little peace |
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It's war on the streets & the war in the Middle East |
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Instead of war on poverty they got a war on drugs |
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so the police can bother me |
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And I ain't never did a crime I ain't have to do |
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But now I'm back with the blacks givin' it back to you |
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Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up, |
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crack you up and pimp slap you up |
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You gotta learn to hold ya own |
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they get jealous when they see ya with ya mobile phone |
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But tell the cops they can't touch this |
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I don't trust this when they try to rush I bust this |
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That's the sound of my tool you say it ain't cool |
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my mama didn't raise no fool |
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And as long as I stay black I gotta stay strapped |
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& I never get to lay back |
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'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs |
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some buck that I roughed up way back |
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comin' back after all these years |
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rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat that's the way it is uhh |
| [03:55.41]Bridge 'til fade] |
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