Come on come on
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I see no changes wake up in the morning and I ask myself
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Is life worth living should I blast myself?
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I'm tired of bein' poor and even worse I'm black
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My stomach hurts so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch
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Cops give a damn about a negro
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Pull the trigger kill a nigga he's a hero
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Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares
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One less hungry mouth on the welfare
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First ship 'em dope and let 'em deal the brothers
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Give 'em guns step back watch 'em kill each other
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"It's time to fight back," that's what Huey said
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Two shots in the dark now Huey's dead
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I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere
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Unless we share with each other
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We gotta start makin' changes
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Learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers
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And that's how it's supposed to be
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How can the Devil take a brother if he's close to me?
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I'd love to go back to when we played as kids
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But things changed, and that's the way it is
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That's just the way it is
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Things will never be the same
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That's just the way it is
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Aww yeah
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That's just the way it is
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Things will never be the same
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That's just the way it is
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Aww yeah
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I see no changes all I see is racist faces
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Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races
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We under I wonder what it takes to make this
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One better place, let's erase the wasted
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Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right
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'Cause both black and white is smokin' crack tonight
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And only time we chill is when we kill each other
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It takes skill to be real, time to heal each other
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And although it seems heaven sent
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We ain't ready, to see a black President, uh
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It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact
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The penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks
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But some things will never change
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Try to show another way but you stayin' in the dope game
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Now tell me what's a mother to do
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Bein' real don't appeal to the brother in you
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You gotta operate the easy way
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(I made a G today) But you made it in a sleazy way
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Sellin' crack to the kid (I gotta get paid
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Well hey, well that's the way it is
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That's just the way it is
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Things will never be the same
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That's just the way it is
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Aww yeah
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That's just the way it is
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Things will never be the same
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That's just the way it is
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Aww yeah
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We gotta make a change
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It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes
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Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
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And let's change the way we treat each other
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You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
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What we gotta do, to survive
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And still I see no changes can't a brother get a little peace?
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It's war on the streets and the war in the Middle East
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Instead of war on poverty they got a war on drugs
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So the police can bother me
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And I ain't never did a crime I ain't have to do
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But now I'm back with the blacks givin' it back to you
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Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up
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Crack you up and pimp smack you up
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You gotta learn to hold ya own
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They get jealous when they see ya with ya mobile phone
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But tell the cops they can't touch this
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I don't trust this when they try to rush I bust this
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That's the sound of my tool you say it ain't cool
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My mama didn't raise no fool
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And as long as I stay black I gotta stay strapped
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And I never get to lay back
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'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs
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Some buck that I roughed up way back
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Comin' back after all these years
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Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat that's the way it is, uh
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That's just the way it is
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Things will never be the same
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That's just the way it is
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Aww yeah
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That's just the way it is
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Things will never be the same
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That's just the way it is
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Aww yeah
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Some things will never change
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