[id:$00000000] [ti:changes] [ar:2pac] [00:12.40]Come on come on [00:16.86]I see no changes wake up in the morning and I ask myself [00:18.89]Is life worth living should I blast myself [00:21.07]I'm tired of bein' poor & even worse I'm black [00:23.77]My stomach hurts so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch [00:25.53]Cops give a damn about a negro [00:27.88]Pull the trigger kill a ***** he's a hero [00:30.15]Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares [00:32.26]One less hungry mouth on the welfare [00:34.55]First ship 'em do*e & let 'em deal the brothers [00:36.42]Give 'em guns step back watch 'em kill each other [00:38.83]It's time to fight back that's what Huey said [00:40.98]2 shots in the dark now Huey's dead [00:42.35]I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere [00:45.16]Unless we share with each other [00:46.62]We gotta start makin' changes [00:48.14]Learn to see me as a brother instead of 2 distant strangers [00:51.17]And that's how it's supposed to be [00:53.47]How can the Devil take a brother if he's close to me [00:55.28]I'd love to go back to when we played as kids [00:58.46]But things changed and that's the way it is [01:01.29]Bridge w/ changing ad libs] [01:02.48]Come on come on [01:03.21]That's just the way it is [01:06.63]Things'll never be the same [01:11.34]That's just the way it is [01:14.72]Aww yeah [01:16.38]Repeat] [01:16.61]2] [01:31.93]I see no changes all I see is racist faces [01:36.80]Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races [01:38.86]We under I wonder what it takes to make this [01:41.04]One better place let's erase the wasted [01:42.62]Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right [01:45.73]'Cause both black and white is smokin' crack tonight [01:47.60]And only time we chill is when we kill each other [01:50.07]It takes skill to be real time to heal each other [01:52.35]And although it seems heaven sent [01:53.78]We ain't ready to see a black President uhh [01:56.52]It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact [01:58.20]The penitentiary's packed and it's filled with blacks [02:01.06]But some things will never change [02:02.45]Try to show another way but you stayin' in the do*e game [02:05.28]Now tell me what's a mother to do [02:07.08]Bein' real don't appeal to the brother in you [02:09.52]You gotta operate the easy way [02:11.16]made a G todayBut you made it in a sleazy way [02:13.81]Sellin' crack to the kid I gotta get paid [02:16.11]Well hey well that's the way it is [02:22.42]Bridge] [02:22.62]Talking:] [02:52.14]We gotta make a change [02:53.01]It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes [02:56.95]Let's change the way we eat let's change the way we live [03:01.29]And let's change the way we treat each other [03:03.72]You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do [03:06.22]What we gotta do to survive [03:08.07]3] [03:09.13]And still I see no changes can't a brother get a little peace [03:11.34]It's war on the streets & the war in the Middle East [03:13.82]Instead of war on poverty they got a war on dr*gs [03:16.84]So the police can bother me [03:18.46]And I ain't never did a crime I ain't have to do [03:21.14]But now I'm back with the blacks givin' it back to you [03:23.21]Don't let 'em jack you up back you up [03:25.26]Crack you up and pimp slap you up [03:27.23]You gotta learn to hold ya own [03:28.93]They get jealous when they see ya with ya mobile phone [03:30.93]But tell the cops they can't touch this [03:33.18]I don't trust this when they try to rush I bust this [03:35.38]That's the sound of my tool you say it ain't cool [03:38.33]My mama didn't raise no fool [03:40.30]And as long as I stay black I gotta stay strapped [03:42.42]& I never get to lay back [03:44.51]'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs [03:46.88]Some buck that I roughed up way back [03:49.05]Comin' back after all these years [03:50.51]Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat that's the way it is uhh [03:55.40]Bridge 'til fade]