Sayri Tupac - Changes lyrics

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Artist: Tupac Amaru Shakur

Song: Changes

Woo'

(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 being poor, and even worse I'm black

My stomach hurts, so I'm looking for a purse to snatch

Cops give a damn about a negro

Pull a trigger, kill a nigga, he's a hero

Givin 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 and 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 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 instead of two distant strangers

And that's how it's supposed 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 change, and that's the way it is

come on, come on

[chorus x2]

That's just the way it is

Things will never be the same

That's just the way it is, aww 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 is smoking crack 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 since

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?

Being real don't nappeal to the brother in you (yeah)

You gotta operate the easy way (I made a G today)

But you made it in a sleezy way

Sellin crack to the kids (I gotta get paid)

Well hey, well that's the way it is

[chorus x2]

[talking]

We gotta make a change...

It's time for us as a people to start making some changes

Let's change the way we eat

Let's change the way 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 more 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 blacks giving back to you

Don't let them jack you up, back you up, crack you up

And pimp-smack you up

You gotta learn to hold your own

They get jealous when see you with your mobile phone

But tell the cops "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 aint cool

My momma 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 gotta worry about the payback

Some buck that I roughed up way back

Coming back after all these years

Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat, that's the way it is

[chorus x2]

(Your my brother, your my sister)

That's just the way it is (the way it is, way it is)

Things will never be the same (your my brother your my sister)

That's just the way it is (yeah)

...Aww yeah

Some things will never change.