Changes

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