[00:34.33]I see no changes wake up in the morning and I ask myself
[00:37.83]is life worth living should I blast myself?
[00:40.16]I'm tired of bein' poor and even worse I'm black
[00:42.59]my stomach hurts so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch
[00:45.43]Cops give a damn about a negro
[00:47.55]pull the trigger kill a nigga he's a hero
[00:49.98]Give crack to the kids who the hell cares
[00:52.52]one less ugly mouth on the welfare
[00:55.27]First ship 'em dope  let 'em deal the brothers
[00:57.77]give 'em guns step back watch 'em kill each other
[00:59.95]It's time to fight back that's what Huey said
[01:02.45]2 shots in the dark now Huey's dead
[01:04.91]I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere
[01:08.20]unless we share with each other
[01:09.95]We gotta start makin' changes
[01:11.91]learn to see me as a brother instead of 2 distant strangers
[01:15.37]and that's how it's supposed to be
[01:16.81]How can the Devil take a brother if he's close to me?
[01:19.95]I'd love to go back to when we played as kids
[01:22.48]but things changed, and that's the way it is
[01:27.90]That's just the way it is
[01:32.58]Things'll never be the same
[01:37.61]That's just the way it is
[01:41.48]aww yeah
[01:43.85]I see no changes all I see is racist faces
[01:47.09]misplaced hate makes disgrace to races
[01:49.47]We under I wonder what it takes to make this
[01:51.97]one better place, let's erase the wasted
[01:54.71]Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right
[01:57.15]'cause both black and white is smokin' crack tonight
[01:59.52]and only time we chill is when we kill each other
[02:02.30]it takes skill to be real, time to heal each other
[02:04.74]And although it seems heaven sent
[02:06.48]We ain't ready, to see a black President, uhh
[02:09.80]It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact
[02:11.55]the penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks
[02:14.62]But some things will never change
[02:16.74]try to show another way but you stayin' in the dope game
[02:19.61]Now tell me what's a mother to do
[02:21.56]bein' real don't appeal to the brother in you
[02:24.52]You gotta operate the easy way
[02:26.52]"I made a G today" But you made it in a sleazy way
[02:29.58]sellin' crack to the kid. " I gotta get paid,"
[02:33.32]that's the way it is
[02:37.38]that's just the way it is
[02:42.30]things never be the same that's just the way it is
[02:51.04]OOh yeah
[02:53.35]We gotta make a change...
[02:55.22]It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.
[02:58.94]Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
[03:01.97]and let's change the way we treat each other.
[03:03.97]You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
[03:07.94]what we gotta do, to survive.
[03:13.47]And still I see no changes can't a brother get a little peace
[03:16.27]It's war on the streets and the war in the Middle East
[03:19.21]Instead of war on poverty they got a war on drugs
[03:22.33]so the police can bother me
[03:24.12]And I ain't never did a crime I ain't have to do
[03:26.74]But now I'm back with the blacks givin' it back to you
[03:29.18]Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up,
[03:31.30]crack you up and pimp smack you up
[03:34.31]You gotta learn to hold ya own
[03:35.94]they get jealous when they see ya with ya mobile phone
[03:39.22]But tell the cops they can't touch this
[03:40.97]I don't trust this when they try to rush I bust this
[03:44.15]That's the sound of my tool you say it ain't cool
[03:46.83]my mama didn't raise no fool
[03:49.22]And as long as I stay black I gotta stay strapped
[03:52.36]I never get to lay back
[03:54.11]'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs
[03:56.69]some buck that I roughed up way back
[03:58.94]comin' back after all these years
[04:01.54]rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat that's the way it is uhh
[04:06.82]that just the way it is things never be the same never be the same
[04:16.83]that just the way it is that just the way it is things never be the same