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 and 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 and 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   Two 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 two 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, that's the way it is      Come on, come on, that's just the way it is   Things will never be the same, that's just the way it is   Aww, yeah      Come on, come on, 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 mo' 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   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      Come on, come on, that's just the way it is   Things will never be the same, that's just the way it is   Aww, yeah      Come on, come on, that's just the way it is   Things will never be the same, that's just the way it is   Aww, yeah      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 survivem      And still I see no changes, can't a brother get a little peace?   There's war in the streets and 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' 'em back to you   Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up   Crack you up and pimps 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   And I never get to lay back      'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs   Some buck that I roughed up way back   Comin' back after all these years   Rat-a-tat, tat, tat, tat, that's the way it is      That's just the way it is   Things will never be the same, that's just the way it is   Aww, yeah      That's just the way it is   Things will never be the same, that's just the way it is   Aww, yeah      Some things will never change