2Pac – Changes

Changes lyrics

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 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 ’n let ’em deal to 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 making 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 change

And 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

Oh yeah

That’s just the way it is

Things will never be the same

That’s just the way it is

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

Are smokin’ 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 sent

We ain’t ready

To see a black president

It ain’t a secret, don’t conceal the fact

The penitenciary’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?

Being 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

Selling crack to the kids

“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

Oh yeah

That’s just the way it is

Things will never be the same

That’s just the way it is

Oh yeah

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 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

And still I see no changes

Can a brother get a little peace?

It’s war on the streets

And a war in the Middle East

Instead a 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, giving it 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 they see you with your 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 back

Some buck that I roughed up way back

Comin’ back after all these years

“Ratatattat tat tat”

That’s the way it is

That’s just the way it is

Things will never be the same