Changes

Changes - 2Pac ft. Talent
[Intro]
Ooh
Yeah ooh
Come on come on I see no changes

[Verse 1]
Wake up in the morning and I ask myself
Is life worth living? Should I blast myself?
I'm tired of being poor and even worse I'm Black
My stomach hurts so I'm looking for a purse to snatch
Cops give a damn about a
Pull the trigger kill a he's a hero
Give the to the kids who the hell cares?
One less hungry mouth on the welfare
First ship 'em dope and let 'em deal to brothers
Give 'em guns step back watch 'em kill each other
It's time to fight back that's what Huey said
Two shots in the dark now Huey's dead
I got love for my brothers
But we can never go nowhere unless we share with each other
We gotta start making changes
Learn to see me as a brother 'stead of two distant strangers
And that's how it's supposed to be
How can the Devil take a brother if he's close to me? Uh
I'd love to go back to when we played as kids
But things change and that's the way it is

[Chorus]
Come on come on that's just the way it is
Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is
Aw yeah yeah hear me yeah
Oh my oh my that's just the way it is
The way it is
Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is
Aw yeah yeah
I see no changes all I see is racist faces

[Verse 2]
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 smoking tonight
And the 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 uh
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 staying in the dope game
Now tell me what's a mother to do?
Being real don't appeal to the brother in you yeah
You gotta operate the easy way I made a G today
But you made it in a sleazy way selling to the kids
I gotta get paid well hey well that's the way it is

[Chorus]
Come on come on that's just the way it is
Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is
Aw yeah yeah hear me yeah
Oh my oh my that's just the way it is
The way it is
Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is
Aw yeah yeah we gotta make a change

[Bridge]
It's time for us as a people to start making 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?

[Verse 3]
It's war on the streets and the war in the Middle East
Instead of war on poverty
They got a war on drugs 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 giving it 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 your own
They get jealous when they see you with your 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
My 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
Coming back after all these years
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat that's the way it is uh

[Chorus]
That's just the way it is hey yeah yeah yeah
Things will never be the same yeah
That's just the way it is
Aw yeah yeah oh my-y

[Outro]
You're my brother you're my sister yeah
The way it is it's the way it is
Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is
Aw yeah yeah