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  |  Re: YES.. CHANGES and NOTING but CHANGES (Re: قرشى محمد عبدون) |  | "Changes"
 
 [1]
 Come on come on
 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 bein' poor & even worse I'm black
 my stomach hurts so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch
 Cops give a damn about a negro
 pull the trigger kill a nigga he's a hero
 Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares
 one less hungry mouth on the welfare
 First ship 'em dope & let 'em deal the brothers
 give 'em guns step back watch 'em kill each other
 It's time to fight back that's what Huey said
 2 shots in the dark now Huey's dead
 I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere
 unless we share with each other
 We gotta start makin' changes
 learn to see me as a brother instead of 2 distant strangers
 and that's how it's supposed 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
 
 [Bridge w/ changing ad libs]
 Come on come on
 That's just the way it is
 Things'll never be the same
 That's just the way it is
 aww yeah
 [Repeat]
 
 [2]
 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 is smokin' crack tonight
 and 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, uhh
 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 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' crack to the kid. " I gotta get paid,"
 Well hey, well that's the way it is
 
 [Bridge]
 
 [Talking:]
 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.
 
 [3]
 And still I see no changes can't a brother get a little peace
 It's war on the streets & 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 givin' 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 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
 my mama didn't raise no fool
 And as long as I stay black I gotta stay strapped
 & I never get to lay back
 'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs
 some punk that I roughed up way back
 comin' back after all these years
 rat-tat-tat-tat-tat that's the way it is uhh
 
 [Bridge 'til fade:]
 Some things will never change
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