Writer(s): Tupac Shakur, Deon Evans, Bruce Hornsby
C’mon c’mon I see no changes
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 lookin’ for a purse to snatch
Cops give a damn about a n***o
Pull the trigger kill a he a hero
Give the to the kids who the hell cares
One less hungry mouth on the welfare
First ship'em let'em deal to brothers
Give'em guns step back and 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 makin’ changes
Learn to see me as a brother
‘stead of two distant strangers
And that's how it's s’posed to be
How can the devil take a brother if he's close to me
I'd love to go back to
when we played as kids but things changed
and that's the way it is
And that's just the way it is
Things will never be the same
And that's just the way it is
oh yeah
And that's just the way it is
Things will never be the same And that's just the way it is
oh yeah
I see no changes all I see is racist faces
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 smokin’ 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 they stayin’ in the dope game
Now tell me what's a mother to do
Bein’ real don't appeal to the brother in you
You gotta operate the easy way I made a G today
But you made it in a sleazy way
Sellin’ to the kids I gotta get paid
That's the way it is
And that's just the way it is
Things will never be the same
And that's just the way it is oh yeah
And that's just the way it is
Things will never be the same
And that's just the way it is oh yeah
We gotta make a change
It's time for us as a people to start makin’ 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 there's war
on the streets
and there's war in the middle east
'Stead 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 give'em 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 ya own they get jealous
when they see ya with ya 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 but 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 buff that I roughed up way back
comin’ back after all these years
rat tat tat tat tat that's the way
it is And that's just the way it is
Things will never be the same
And that's just the way it is oh yeah
And that's just the way it is
Things will never be the same
And that's just the way it is oh yeah
