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Em _ _ _ _
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D I see
Am no changes,
Em wake up in the morning and I
D ask myself, is
C life worth living should.
I
G blast myself.
I'm
D tired of being poor and even
C worse I'm black, my stomach hurts so I'm looking for.
a
Am purse to snatch,
Em cops give a damn about a
D hero, pull a
Cm trigger kill a na he's.
a
G hero, give a
D na to the kids who the
C hell cares, one less hungry
Em mouth for no
Am welfare,.
Em first ship him dope and let him
D deal a brother, give him
C third step back watch him
G kill each.
other, it's
D time to fight back that's what
C Huey said, two shots in the dark now
Am Huey's.
dead, I got
Em love for my brothers but
D we can never go nowhere
C unless we share with each.
G other, we gotta
D try to make a change, learn to
C see me as a brother instead of two distant.
Am strangers, and
Em that's how it's supposed to be,
D how can the devil take my
C brother if he's.
close to
G me.
I
D let it go back to when we played as
C kids with James James, that's the
G way it is,
F come.
on,
G come on, that's just the way it is,
F _ _
G _ things will never be the _
Am same, _
G _ that's just the way.
it _
Am is,
G oh yeah, _ hear me here, _ I wanna be, the only way I've been practicing my whole.
life to live my life is to
C be responsible for what I do, I
G don't know how to be responsible.
for what every
F black male do, I
G don't know, yes I am gonna say that I'm a thug, that's.
because I came from the gutter and I'm still here, I
Am see no changes,
Em all I see is racist.
D faces, this place
C hate, made a disgrace for
G rapists, we under, I
D wonder what it takes.
to make this,
Am or better yet, kill the race that waits here, take the
Em evil out the people.
that'll be
D acting right,
G cause both
C black and white, let's focus
G tonight, and the
D only.
time we feel is when we
C kill each other, it takes skill to be real, come and
Am heal each.
other, and if
Em all we see is heaven sent,
D we ain't ready, to
C see a black president,
G and.
I'm gonna say that
D secret don't conceal the
C fact, the benefit we've got, and it's filled.
with
Am blacks, but some
E things will never
G change, try to show another
C way, but it's staying.
in the
G dope game, now
D tell me what's a mother to two, being
C real don't appeal to the brother.
in
Am you, you gotta
Em operate the easy way,
D I made a G
C today, but you made it in a
G sleazy.
way, sell it
D to the kid, I gotta get
C paid, well hey, well that's the
G way it is,
F come.
on,
G come on, that's just the way it is, _
C _ _
G _ things will never be the _
C same,.
_
G _ that's just the way it _
Am is,
G oh yeah, _ _ .
come
C on,
G come on, that's just the way it _ _
F _
G is,.
things will never be the same,.
_
Am _ _
G _ that's just the way it _
Am is,
G oh yeah,.
you
Am gotta make a change,.
Em rap star and actor
F# Tupac Shakur
Gm was writing in his black jeans,.
this 25 year
D old rapper had long since quit rap,.
but now he's _ 100
Am years
Em old, not an
D agent of his own school,.
C pay the respect
G to this plain rapper,.
D not guilty,.
C _ and still I
Am see no change,
Em can a brother get a little
D peace,.
it's war on the
Cm streets and a war up in
G the middle east,.
instead of
D war on policy, they got a
C war on drugs, so the police can
Am bother me,.
and I ain't
Em never did a crime, I ain't
D have to do, but now
C black with the black,.
I'm giving it
G back to you,
D so let them jack you
C up, back you up,.
crack you up, and pimp
Am smack you up,.
you
Em gotta learn to hold your
Dm own, they get jealous when they
C see you with your mobile
G phone,.
but tell the
D cops I can't touch this,
C I don't trust this, when they try to rush I
Am bust this,.
that's
Em sound number 2, you
D say it ain't cool,.
my
C mama didn't raise
G no fool,.
and as
D long as the state block,
G I gotta
C stay strapped,.
and I never get to
Am lay back, cause I
Em always gotta worry about the
D payback,.
so
C fuck that I roughed up
G way back, coming
D back after all these years,.
C right at that, that's the
G way it is,.
C that's _
G just the way it is,.
Am _
G _ _ things will never be the same,.
F _ _
G _ that's just the way it _ _
Am is,.
_
G _ _ _ .
_ _
Am _ _
G _ that's just the way it _
Am _
G is,.
things will never be the same,.
I wear
F my
C shoes,.
G that's just the way it _
F is,.
C G some things will never