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[00:15.58]Come on, come on
[00:16.23]I see no changes, wake up in the morning and I ask myself
[00:19.46]Is life worth living, should I blast myself?
[00:21.60]I'm tired of bein' poor, and even worse, I'm black
[00:23.47]My stomach hurts, so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch
[00:26.08]Cops give a damn about a negro
[00:27.91]Pull the trigger, kill a n-, he's a hero
[00:30.07]Give the cr- to the kids who the hell cares
[00:32.20]One less hungry mouth on the welfare
[00:34.65]First ship 'em dope and let 'em deal the brothers
[00:36.64]Give 'em guns, step back, watch 'em kill each other
[00:38.85]It's time to fight back that's what Huey said
[00:40.87]Two shots in the dark, now Huey's dead
[00:43.17]I got love for my brother, but we can never go nowhere
[00:45.64]Unless we share with each other
[00:47.27]We gotta start makin' changes
[00:48.97]Learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers
[00:51.88]And that's how it's supposed to be
[00:53.23]How can the devil take a brother, if he's close to me?
[00:56.13]I'd love to go back to when we played as kids
[00:58.08]But things changed, that's the way it is
[01:00.16](Come on, come on)
[01:02.62]That's just the way it is (change)
[01:06.97]Things will never be the same
[01:11.22]That's just the way it is (that's just the way it is for us)
[01:14.86]Aww, yeah (hear me)
[01:17.20](Oh no, oh, no) (come on, come on, come on)
[01:19.97]That's just the way it is (that's just the way it is) (the way it is)
[01:22.23](Somethings) things will never be the same
[01:26.36](Never be the same yeah, yeah, yeah, aww yeah)
[01:28.76]That's just the way it is (the way it is)
[01:31.71]Aww, yeah (come on, come on)
[01:33.99]I see no changes, all I see is racist faces
[01:36.73]Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races
[01:38.82]We under, I wonder what it takes to make this
[01:41.17]One better place, let's erase the wasted
[01:43.52]Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right
[01:45.53]'Cause mo' black and white is smokin' cr- tonight
[01:47.94]And only time we chill is when we kill each other
[01:49.83]It takes skill to be real, time to heal each other (kill each other)
[01:52.29]And although it seems heaven sent
[01:53.79]We ain't ready, to see a black President
[01:56.49]It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact
[01:57.96]The penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks
[02:00.76]But some things will never change
[02:02.43]Try to show another way but you stayin' in the dope game
[02:05.14]Now tell me, what's a mother to do?
[02:06.74]Bein' real don't appeal to the brother in you (yeah)
[02:09.32]You gotta operate the easy way
[02:11.07](I made a G today) but you made it in a sleazy way
[02:13.78]Sellin' cr- to the kid (I gotta get paid)
[02:15.60]Well hey, well, that's the way it is
[02:17.94](Come on, come on)
[02:20.40]That's just the way it is (change)
[02:24.67]Things will never be the same
[02:29.06]That's just the way it is (that's just the way it is for us)
[02:32.68]Aww, yeah
[02:34.98](Oh no, oh no) (come on, come on, come on)
[02:37.63]That's just the way it is (that's just the way it is) (the way it is)
[02:40.00](Somethings) things will never be the same
[02:44.13](Never be the same yeah, yeah, yeah, aww yeah)
[02:46.40]That's just the way it is (the way it is)
[02:49.72]Aww, yeah (aww, yeah, aww, yeah)
[02:51.73]We gotta make a change
[02:54.64]It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes
[02:57.74]Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
[03:01.21]And let's change the way we treat each other
[03:03.56]You see, the old way wasn't working
[03:05.18]So it's on us to do what we gotta do, to survive
[03:08.76]And still I see no changes, can't a brother get a little peace?
[03:11.79]There's war in the streets and war in the Middle East
[03:14.17]Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs
[03:16.85]So the police can bother me
[03:18.58]And I ain't never did a crime, I ain't have to do
[03:20.64]But now, I'm back with the facts givin' 'em back to you
[03:23.12]Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up
[03:25.32]Crack you up and pimps smack you up
[03:27.48]You gotta learn to hold ya own
[03:28.77]They get jealous when they see ya, with ya mobile phone
[03:31.44]But tell the cops, they can't touch this
[03:33.16]I don't trust this, when they try to rush I bust this
[03:35.85]That's the sound of my tool, you say it ain't cool?
[03:38.24]My mama didn't raise no fool
[03:40.20]And as long as I stay black, I gotta stay strapped
[03:42.96]And I never get to lay back
[03:44.41]'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the paybacks
[03:46.67]Some buck that I roughed up way back
[03:48.83]Comin' back after all these years
[03:50.78]Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat, that's the way it is
[03:55.41]That's just the way it is (the way it is, yeah, yeah, yeah)
[03:59.74]Things will never be the same
[04:04.02]That's just the way it is (the way it is)
[04:07.21]Aww, yeah (somethings will never change) (oh my)
[04:09.96](You're my brother, you're my sister)
[04:12.76]That's just the way it is (the way it is, the way it is)
[04:16.95]Things will never be the same
[04:19.11](You're my brother, you're my sister)
[04:21.37]That's just the way it is
[04:24.52]Aww, yeah (somethings will never change)
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