Changes
by
2Pac
{"acf_content":"[Verse 1]\n \n Come on, come on,\n Am Em Dsus4\nI see no changes; wake up in the morning and I ask my-self;\n Csus2 G\n\"Is life worth living? Should I blast my-self?\"\n D C\nI'm tired of bein' poor and even worse I'm black.\n Am\nMy stomach hurts, so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch.\n Em Dsus4\nCops give a damn a-bout a ne-gro?\n Csus2 G\nPull the trigger, kill a nigga, he's a he-ro.\n D C\nGive the crack to the kids; who the Hell cares?\nOne less hungry mouth on the welfare.\n \nAm Em\n First ship 'em dope and let 'em deal to brothers,\nDsus4 Csus2\n Give 'em guns, step back, and watch 'em kill each other.\nG D C\n \"It's time to fight back\", that's what Huey said;\nTwo shots in the dark, now Huey's dead.\nAm Em Dsus4\n I got love for my brother, but we can never go nowhere,\n Csus2\nUnless we share with each other.\nG D\n We gotta start makin' changes;\n C Am\nLearn to see me as a brother 'stead of two distant strangers.\n Em\nAnd that's how it's supposed to be;\n Dsus4 Csus2\nHow can the Devil take a brother if he's close to me?\nG D Csus2\n I'd love to go back to when we played as kids,\nBut things changed, and that's the way it is.\n \n[Chorus]\nG Fmaj7 C\n Come on, come on, that's just the way it is,\nG Fmaj7 C\n Things'll never be the same.\nG Fmaj7 C\n That's just the way it is,\nG Fmaj7 C\n Ah, yeah.\n \nG Fmaj7 C\n That's just the way it is,\nG Fmaj7 C\n Things'll never be the same.\nG Fmaj7 C\n That's just the way it is,\nG Fmaj7 C\n Ah, yeah.\n \n[Verse 2]\n Am Em\nI see no changes; all I see is racist faces,\nDsus4 Csus2 G\n Misplaced hate makes dis-grace to races we under.\n D C\nI wonder what it takes to make this one better place;\nLet's erase the wasted.\nAm Em Dsus4\n Take the evil out the people; they'll be acting right,\n Csus2 G\n'Cos both black and white are smokin' crack to-night.\n D C\nAnd only time we chill is when we kill each other;\nIt takes skill to be real; time to heal each other.\n \nAm Em\n And although it seems Heaven sent,\n Dsus4 Csus2\nWe ain't ready to see a black President, uh.\nG D\n It ain't a secret; don't con-ceal the fact;\n C\nThe peni-tentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks.\nAm Em\n But some things will never change;\n Dsus4 Csus2\nTry to show another way, but they stayin' in the dope game.\nG D\n Now tell me what's a mother to do?\n C\nBein' real don't appeal to the brother in you.\nAm Em\n You gotta operate the easy way;\n Dsus4 Csus2 G\n\"I made a G today\", but you made it in a sleazy way.\n D C\nSellin' crack to the kids; \"I gotta get paid\",\nWell, hey, well that's the way it is.\n \n[Chorus]\nG Fmaj7 C\n Come on, come on, that's just the way it is,\nG Fmaj7 C\n Things'll never be the same.\nG Fmaj7 C\n That's just the way it is,\nG Fmaj7 C\n Ah, yeah.\n \nG Fmaj7 C\n That's just the way it is,\nG Fmaj7 C\n Things'll never be the same.\nG Fmaj7 C\n That's just the way it is,\nG Fmaj7 C\n Ah, yeah.\n \n[Verse 3]\n Am Em\nWe gotta make a change;\nD C Gsus4\n It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.\n D C\nLet's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live,\nAm Em\n And let's change the way we treat each other.\nD C\n You see the old way wasn't working,\n Gsus4 D C\nSo it's on us to do what we gotta do to sur-vive.\n \n Am Em\nAnd still I see no changes; can't a brother get a little peace?\n Dsus4 Csus2 G\nThere's war on the streets and the war in the Middle East.\n D\nInstead of war on poverty,\n C\nThey got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.\nAm Em Dsus4\n And I ain't never did a crime I ain't have to do,\n Csus2 G\nBut now I'm back with the facts, givin' 'em back to you.\n D C\nDon't let 'em jack you up, back you up,\nCrack you up and pimp smack you up.\n \nAm Em\n You gotta learn to hold ya own;\n Dsus4 Csus2\nThey get jealous when they see ya with ya mobile phone.\n G D\nBut tell the cops they can't touch this;\n C\nI don't trust this, when they try to rush, I bust this.\nAm Em\n That's the sound of my tool;\n Dsus4 Csus2\nYou say it ain't cool, but mama didn't raise no fool.\nG D\n And as long as I stay black,\n C\nI gotta stay strapped and I never get to lay back.\nAm Em Dsus4\n 'Cos I always got to worry 'bout the pay-back,\n Csus2 G\nSome buck that I roughed up way back,\n D\nComin' back after all these years.\n C\nRat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat! That's the way it is, uh.\n \n[Chorus]\nG Fmaj7 C\n Come on, come on, that's just the way it is,\nG Fmaj7 C\n Things'll never be the same.\nG Fmaj7 C\n That's just the way it is,\nG Fmaj7 C\n Ah, yeah.\n \nG Fmaj7 C\n That's just the way it is,\nG Fmaj7 C\n Things'll never be the same.\nG Fmaj7 C\n That's just the way it is,\nG Fmaj7 C\n Ah, yeah.\n","acf_video_url":"","acf_key_signature":"A Minor","key_signature_slug":[],"artists":[],"artist_slug":[],"title":"Changes","slug":"changes","dateCreated":"2025-09-03T18:40:36+00:00","post_type":"song"}