Oh-ooh, yeah 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 n***a, he's a hero Give a crack to the kids, who the hell cares? One less hungry mouth on the welfare First ship him, don't let him deal with brothers Give him gun, step back, watch him 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 brothers, 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 you never take a brother if he's close to me? I let it go back to when we played as kids, but then 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 Oh yeah That's just the way it is That's just the way it is Things will never be the same That's just the way it is Oh yeah I see no changes, all I see is racist faces Misplaced hate makes disgraced the 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 Let's vote black and white and smoke a 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 evanescent, 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're staying 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 G today But you made it in a sleazy way Selling crack to the kids I gotta get paid But 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 Hear me Oh, come on, oh, come on, come on That's just the way it is That's just the way it is Things will never be the same Hear me say, yeah, yeah, yeah 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 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, giving it back to you Don't let them jack you up, back you up Crack you up and pipsmack you up You gotta learn to hold your own They get jealous when they see you with your mobile phone But telecoms 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 the state block I gotta stay strapped And I never get to lay back Cause I always gotta worry about the payback Some fuck that I roughed up way back Coming 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 Oh yeah That's just the way it is That's just the way it is Things will never be the same That's just the way it is Oh yeah