[00:15.29] Come on, come on [00:16.14] I see no changes, wake up in the morning and I ask myself [00:18.81] Is life worth living, should I blast myself? [00:21.19] I'm tired of bein' poor and even worse I'm black [00:23.25] My stomach hurts, so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch [00:25.42] Cops give a damn about a negro [00:27.42] Pull the trigger, kill a nigga, he's a hero [00:29.74] Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares [00:31.88] One less hungry mouth on the welfare [00:33.95] First ship 'em dope and let 'em deal the brothers [00:36.18] Give 'em guns, step back, watch 'em kill each other [00:38.25] It's time to fight back that's what Huey said [00:40.54] Two shots in the dark, now Huey's dead [00:42.79] I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere [00:45.29] Unless we share with each other [00:46.95] We gotta start makin' changes [00:48.64] Learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers [00:51.31] And that's how it's supposed to be [00:52.93] How can the devil take a brother, if he's close to me? [00:55.26] I'd love to go back to when we played as kids [00:57.85] But things changed, that's the way it is [01:00.55] Come on, come on, that's just the way it is [01:03.55] [01:06.10] Things will never be the same, that's just the way it is [01:08.76] [01:13.96] Aww, yeah [01:16.40] Come on, come on, that's just the way it is [01:19.75] [01:23.09] Things will never be the same, that's just the way it is [01:26.53] [01:31.16] Aww, yeah [01:33.78] I see no changes, all I see is racist faces [01:36.37] Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races [01:38.52] We under, I wonder what it takes to make this [01:40.62] One better place, let's erase the wasted [01:42.87] Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right [01:45.26] 'Cause mo' black and white is smokin' crack tonight [01:47.44] And only time we chill is when we kill each other [01:49.56] It takes skill to be real, time to heal each other [01:51.61] And although it seems heaven sent [01:53.46] We ain't ready, to see a black President [01:55.78] It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact [01:57.76] The penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks [02:00.45] But some things will never change [02:02.13] Try to show another way but you stayin' in the dope game [02:04.74] Now tell me, what's a mother to do? [02:06.50] Bein' real don't appeal to the brother in you [02:08.78] You gotta operate the easy way [02:10.64] I made a G today, but you made it in a sleazy way [02:13.29] Sellin' crack to the kid, I gotta get paid [02:15.73] Well hey, well, that's the way it is [02:17.98] Come on, come on, that's just the way it is [02:23.01] Things will never be the same, that's just the way it is [02:26.22] [02:31.86] Aww, yeah [02:34.75] Come on, come on, that's just the way it is [02:37.75] [02:41.26] Things will never be the same, that's just the way it is [02:44.26] [02:48.92] Aww, yeah [02:51.75] We gotta make a change [02:54.13] It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes [02:57.32] Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live [03:00.84] And let's change the way we treat each other [03:03.20] You see, the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do [03:06.50] What we gotta do, to survivem [03:08.61] And still I see no changes, can't a brother get a little peace? [03:11.32] There's war in the streets and war in the Middle East [03:13.83] Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs [03:16.39] So the police can bother me [03:18.18] And I ain't never did a crime, I ain't have to do [03:20.47] But now, I'm back with the facts givin' 'em back to you [03:22.45] Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up [03:25.00] Crack you up and pimps smack you up [03:26.93] You gotta learn to hold ya own [03:28.64] They get jealous when they see ya, with ya mobile phone [03:30.96] But tell the cops, they can't touch this [03:32.79] I don't trust this, when they try to rush I bust this [03:35.48] That's the sound of my tool, you say it ain't cool? [03:37.60] My mama didn't raise no fool [03:39.99] And as long as I stay black, I gotta stay strapped [03:42.66] And I never get to lay back [03:44.24] 'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs [03:46.39] Some buck that I roughed up way back [03:48.59] Comin' back after all these years [03:50.23] Rat-a-tat, tat, tat, tat, that's the way it is [03:54.20] That's just the way it is [03:59.06] Things will never be the same, that's just the way it is [04:02.17] [04:06.79] Aww, yeah [04:09.02] [04:12.27] That's just the way it is [04:16.60] Things will never be the same, that's just the way it is [04:18.81] [04:24.24] Aww, yeah [04:26.00] Some things will never change [04:26.36]