Changes-Alex Goot

[ti:Changes] [ar:Alex Goot] [al:Songs I Wish I Wrote] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Changes - Alex Goot [00:34.33]I see no changes wake up in the morning and I ask myself [00:37.83]Is life worth living should I blast myself [00:40.16]I'm tired of bein' poor and even worse I'm black [00:42.59]My stomach hurts so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch [00:45.43]Cops give a damn about a negro [00:47.55]Pull the trigger kill a ni**a he's a hero [00:49.98]Give crack to the kids who the hell cares [00:52.52]One less ugly mouth on the welfare [00:55.27]First ship 'em **** let 'em deal the brothers [00:57.77]Give 'em guns step back watch 'em kill each other [00:59.95]It's time to fight back that's what Huey said [01:02.45]2 shots in the dark now Huey's dead [01:04.91]I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere [01:08.20]Unless we share with each other [01:09.95]We gotta start makin' changes [01:11.91]Learn to see me as a brother instead of 2 distant strangers [01:15.37]And that's how it's supposed to be [01:16.81]How can the Devil take a brother if he's close to me [01:19.95]I'd love to go back to when we played as kids [01:22.48]But things changed and that's the way it is [01:27.90]That's just the way it is [01:32.58]Things'll never be the same [01:37.61]That's just the way it is [01:41.48]Aww yeah [01:43.85]I see no changes all I see is racist faces [01:47.09]Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races [01:49.47]We under I wonder what it takes to make this [01:51.97]One better place let's erase the wasted [01:54.71]Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right [01:57.15]'Cause both black and white is smokin' crack tonight [01:59.52]And only time we chill is when we kill each other [02:02.30]It takes skill to be real time to heal each other [02:04.74]And although it seems heaven sent [02:06.48]We ain't ready to see a black President uhh [02:09.80]It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact [02:11.55]The penitentiary's packed and it's filled with blacks [02:14.62]But some things will never change [02:16.74]Try to show another way but you stayin' in the **** game [02:19.61]Now tell me what's a mother to do [02:21.56]Bein' real don't appeal to the brother in you [02:24.52]You gotta operate the easy way [02:26.52]"I made a G today" But you made it in a sleazy way [02:29.58]Sellin' crack to the kid " I gotta get paid " [02:33.32]That's the way it is [02:37.38]That's just the way it is [02:42.30]Things never be the same that's just the way it is [02:51.04]OOh yeah [02:53.35]We gotta make a change [02:55.22]It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes [02:58.94]Let's change the way we eat let's change the way we live [03:01.97]And let's change the way we treat each other [03:03.97]You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do [03:07.94]What we gotta do to survive [03:13.47]And still I see no changes can't a brother get a little peace [03:16.27]It's war on the streets and the war in the Middle East [03:19.21]Instead of war on poverty they got a war on ***** [03:22.33]So the police can bother me [03:24.12]And I ain't never did a crime I ain't have to do [03:26.74]But now I'm back with the blacks givin' it back to you [03:29.18]Don't let 'em jack you up back you up [03:31.30]Crack you up and pimp smack you up [03:34.31]You gotta learn to hold ya own [03:35.94]They get jealous when they see ya with ya mobile phone [03:39.22]But tell the cops they can't touch this [03:40.97]I don't trust this when they try to rush I bust this [03:44.15]That's the sound of my tool you say it ain't cool [03:46.83]My mama didn't raise no fool [03:49.22]And as long as I stay black I gotta stay strapped [03:52.36]I never get to lay back [03:54.11]'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs [03:56.69]Some buck that I roughed up way back [03:58.94]Comin' back after all these years [04:01.54]Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat that's the way it is uhh [04:06.82]That just the way it is things never be the same never be the same [04:16.83]That just the way it is that just the way it is things never be the same