Psst, Psst, Psst, Psst, Psst. 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, 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 a crack to the kids who the hell cares, One less hungry mouth on the welfare, First ship em, don't let em deal with 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 brothers, but we can never go nowhere, Unless we share with each other, We gotta start makin' changes, Learn to see me as your brother instead of two distant strangers, And that's how it's supposed to be, How can a devil take a brother if he's close to me? I let it go back to when we played as kids, but then it changed, 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, 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 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 actin' right, Cause 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 evident, we ain't ready, To see a black president, It ain't a secret or concealed, In 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 stayin' in the dope, 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, But you made it in a sleazy way, Sellin' crack to the kids, But hey, Well 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, 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 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 workin', 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 box, Givin' 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 tell a cop 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 momma didn't raise no fool, And as long as the state block, I gotta stay strong, 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, Riding 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,