[00:32.187]I see no changes wake up in the morning and I ask myself
[00:36.076]Is life worth living should I blast myself?
[00:38.733]I'm tired of bein' poor and even worse I'm black
[00:41.418]My stomach hurts so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch
[00:44.272]Cops give a damn about a negro
[00:46.716]Pull the trigger kill a ***** he's a hero
[00:49.244]Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares
[00:51.631]One less hungry mouth on the welfare
[00:54.445]First ship 'em **** and let 'em deal the brothers
[00:57.310]Give 'em guns step back watch 'em kill each other
[00:59.722]It's time to fight back that's what Huey said
[01:02.598]Two shots in the dark now Huey's dead
[01:05.092]I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere
[01:08.684]Unless we share with each other
[01:10.491]We gotta start makin' changes
[01:12.466]Learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers
[01:16.193]And that's how it's supposed to be
[01:17.917]How can the Devil take a brother if he's close to me?
[01:21.227]I'd love to go back to when we played as kids
[01:23.871]But things changed, and that's the way it is
[01:28.688]
[01:29.150]That's just the way it is
[01:31.271]Things will never be the same
[01:40.084]That's just the way it is
[01:43.550]Aww yeah
[01:45.857]
[01:46.778]I see no changes all I see is racist faces
[01:50.141]Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races
[01:52.750]We under I wonder what it takes to make this
[01:55.548]One better place, let's erase the wasted
[01:58.377]Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right
[02:01.298]'Cause both black and white is smokin' crack tonight
[02:03.859]And only time we chill is when we kill each other
[02:06.564]It takes skill to be real, time to heal each other
[02:09.129]And although it seems heaven sent
[02:11.100]We ain't ready, to see a black President, uhh
[02:14.142]It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact
[02:16.554]The penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks
[02:19.630]But some things will never change
[02:22.002]Try to show another way but you stayin' in the **** game
[02:25.279]Now tell me what's a mother to do
[02:27.231]Bein' real don't appeal to the brother in you
[02:29.965]You gotta operate the easy way
[02:32.574]"I made a G today" But you made it in a sleazy way
[02:36.009]Sellin' crack to the kid. " I gotta get paid, "
[02:38.634]Well hey, well that's the way it is
[02:41.565]
[02:43.894]That's just the way it is
[02:46.826]Things will never be the same
[02:54.576]That's just the way it is
[02:58.853]Aww yeah
[03:00.783]
[03:01.732]We gotta make a change
[03:03.600]It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.
[03:07.698]Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
[03:11.865]And let's change the way we treat each other.
[03:14.445]You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
[03:19.439]What we gotta do, to survive
[03:22.237].
[03:22.371]And still I see no changes can't a brother get a little peace
[03:26.158]It's war on the streets and the war in the Middle East
[03:28.936]Instead of war on poverty they got a war on drugs
[03:32.660]So the police can bother me
[03:34.109]And I ain't never did a crime I ain't have to do
[03:37.174]But now I'm back with the blacks givin' it back to you
[03:39.820]Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up,
[03:42.177]Crack you up and pimp smack you up
[03:45.083]You gotta learn to hold ya own
[03:47.144]They get jealous when they see ya with ya mobile phone
[03:50.216]But tell the cops they can't touch this
[03:52.466]I don't trust this when they try to rush I bust this
[03:55.691]That's the sound of my tool you say it ain't cool
[03:58.686]My mama didn't raise no fool
[04:01.033]And as long as I stay black I gotta stay strapped
[04:04.518]And I never get to lay back
[04:06.383]'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs
[04:09.030]Some buck that I roughed up way back
[04:11.742]Comin' back after all these years
[04:14.641]Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat that's the way it is uhh
[04:18.485]
[04:19.932]That's just the way it is
[04:24.482]Things will never be the same
[04:30.813]That's just the way it is
[04:34.091]Aww yeah
[04:37.617]
[04:41.138]That's just the way it is
[04:46.502]Things will never be the same
[04:51.903]That's just the way it is
[04:55.794]Aww yeah