-1-   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 & 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 & 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   2 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 2 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, and that's the way it is      Bridge w/ changing ad libs   Come on come on   That's just the way it is   Things'll never be the same   That's just the way it is   aww yeah   Repeat      -2-   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 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, uhh   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      Bridge      Talking:   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 survive.      -3-   And still I see no changes can't a brother get a little peace   It's war on the streets & the 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 blacks givin' it back to you   Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up,   crack you up and pimp slap 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   & 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 uhh      Bridge 'til fade