00:00I see no changes, wake up in the morning and I ask myself, is life worth living or should
00:22I blast myself? I'm tired of being poor and even worse than black, my stomach hurts so
00:26I'm looking for a purse to snatch, cops give a damn about a negro, pull the trigger, kill
00:30a nigger, he's a hero, give the crack to the kids, who the hell cares, one less hungry
00:34mouth on the welfare, first ship him dope and let him deal with brothers, give him guns,
00:39step back, watch him kill each other, it's time to fight back, that's what Huey said, two
00:42shots in the dark, now Huey's dead, I got love for my brother, but we can never go nowhere
00:47unless we share with each other, we gotta start making changes, learn to see me as a brother
00:51instead of two distant strangers, and that's how it's supposed to be, how can the devil
00:55take a brother if he's close to me, huh, I love to go back to when we played as kids,
01:00but things change, that's the way it is, I see no changes, all I see is racist faces,
01:21misplaced hate makes disgrace to races, we under, I wonder what it takes to make this,
01:25unblooded place, let's erase the wasted, take the devil out, the people, they'll be acting
01:30right, cause both black and white are smoking crack tonight, and the only time we chill is
01:33when we kill each other, take skill to be real, time to heal each other, and although it seems
01:37heaven set, we ain't ready to see a black president, uh, it ain't a secret, don't conceal the facts,
01:43entries packed, and it's filled with blacks, but some things will never change, try to show
01:47another way, but you stayin' in the dope game, now tell me what's the mother to do, being real
01:51don't appeal to the brother and you, you gotta operate the easy way, I made a G today, but
01:56you made it in a sleazy way, sellin' crack to the kids, gotta get paid, oh, hey, that's the way it is,
02:02that's just the way it is, things will never be the same, that's just the way it is, oh, hey, that's just
02:22the way it is, things will never be the same, that's just the way it is, oh, yeah, we gotta make a change, 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, let's change the way we treat each other, you see, the old way wasn't working, so it's on us,
02:49do what we gotta do to survive, still I see no changes, can't a brother get a little peace, it's war on the streets and it's 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, givin' it back to you, don't let them 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, tell the cops they can't touch this, I don't trust this, when they try to rush, I bust this,
03:19that's a sign, I'm a 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 about the payback, some buck that I rocked up way back, coming back after all these years, that's the way it is.
03:37That's just the way it is, that's just the way it is, that's just the way it is, oh yeah.
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