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[00:01.07]Whoaahhhoahhh, oahhhohhhhh
[00:10.82]It's been a long, long
[00:14.66]A long time coming
[00:19.80]A change gon' come
[00:21.17]Yo, yo these streets got me backed down how can I escape?
[00:23.93]How can I survive without bubblin weight?
[00:26.56]It's prepared for the stand off, once you hand off
[00:29.16]That white rock, and then give birth to a knot
[00:31.31]Your biggest dream was to rock your 850 and beam
[00:34.10]You and the Gods buy a crib in the white part of Queens
[00:37.03]But at the same time, niggaz on the block is ill
[00:39.52]Some'll rock you to sleep, hap, for selling cross pills
[00:42.27]Being watched all day like enemy's prey
[00:44.82]Faces, you never seen before is in your hallway
[00:47.43]Brothers you knew for years is mad pussy and scared
[00:50.14]Back in the days U.F.O.'s couldn't walk up in here
[00:52.73]It's time to motor, travel like a foul order
[00:55.49]Clear my head, stay sober, the soul controller
[00:58.29]Oahhhh, it's been a long, long
[01:05.80]A long time coming
[01:08.66]A change gon' come
[01:11.47]Oh, yes it will
[01:13.73]Said I'm too, tired of livin
[01:19.44]But I'm, but I'm afraid to die
[01:25.44]Cause I don't know what's up there
[01:28.62]In that great big ol' sky
[01:34.27]Sink deep into the fog, big buffalo large
[01:37.98]Taj Mahal just got banged, shanked for eighty dollars
[01:40.50]It's hard to keep up, with these key-ons, that smoke dust
[01:42.84]In the U.S. Mint they want to rock the place and call the rush
[01:45.50]All these shameless niggaz armed with cherry-red Bally's
[01:48.17]On the twenty-fifth, everybody rich is gettin married
[01:50.96]Killed for power beans, your brother own schools in Medina
[01:53.57]Vaseline lips is cracked cause they all had dreams
[01:56.17]They overdue, these Gods own a mosque in Peru
[01:58.43]Tropical trees and weaves where they grew bamboo
[02:01.40]Olympic minds quick flash like a leak on
[02:03.53]A hundred shares short to own Nissan, watch em get they feast on
[02:07.00]Royal blue lies inside the eyes of heaven
[02:09.23]Curse the head, who speak foul and jinx number seven (seven)
[02:13.63]Clear my head and stay sober, the soul controller...
[02:25.64](Stay sober, the soul controller)
[02:26.95]Oahhh, been a long time comin
[02:30.51]Oh yeah
[02:31.96]A change gon' come
[02:35.98]Woooaahh, yes it will
[02:37.96]Yo, yo we sit and play the wall like nine super heroes
[02:41.49]Late for the man choose and hit socks and stereos
[02:43.67]The kid's nice, warnin you twice, run your garmets
[02:46.85]Jet to Providence, switch up and back down your Parliament
[02:49.28]Ironman is laced with a plate inside the dome piece
[02:51.84]Go off in airports, biographies, prophecies
[02:54.42]Watch me set it, real key-ons hold down the desert
[02:57.12]And walk with a famous name like Supreme Magnetic
[02:59.88]Carbon copy, I love my car, it's near choppy
[03:02.67]Melachi off the funky pain with the wax poppy on instrumentals
[03:05.64]Niggaz get lost like S.S. Minnows
[03:07.46]Turned out like rentals, keep gold around the denim
[03:56.75]A change gon come
[04:03.24]Yes it will
[04:07.30]It's been a long, long
[04:12.86]A long time coming
[04:16.61]A change gon come
[04:21.67]Wooo, yes it will
[04:29.43]Said I'm so
[04:31.58]Tired of living
[04:34.91]But I'm, but I'm afraid to die
[04:40.64]Cause I don't know what's up there
[04:45.02]In that great, big ol sky
[04:53.11]Oh my, oh my, oh my
[05:00.66]It's been a long, long time
[05:04.96]A long time coming
[05:10.35]Change gonna come
[05:14.41]Wooo, yes it will
[05:23.07]Sorry boys,
[05:25.23]All the stitches in the world can't sew me together again
[05:30.19]Lay down, lay down
[05:34.53]Gonna stretch me out in Fernandez funeral home on hun and ninth street
[05:39.92]Always knew I'd make a stop there
[05:42.87]But a lot later than a whole gang of people thought
[05:47.39]Last of the Mohicans
[05:50.60]Well, maybe not the last
[05:53.61]Can't come with me on this trip, Loaf
[05:58.22]Gettin the shakes now
[06:00.82]Last call for drinks
[06:03.30]Bar's closin down
[06:06.19]Sun's out
[06:08.66]Where we goin for breakfast?
[06:11.76]Don't wanna go far
[06:15.24]Rough night
[06:16.81]Tired, baby
[06:19.77]Tired...
[06:30.71]Greatest trick the devil ever pulled
[06:33.42]Was convincing the world he didn't exist
[06:38.64]And like that, he's gone
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