VERSE 01: [2Pac]

I see no changes, wake up in the morning and I ask myself:

"Is life worth living? Should I blast myself?"

I'm tired of being poor and, even worse, I'm black

My stomach hurts so I'm looking for a purse to snatch

Cops give a damn about a negro

Pull the trigger, kill a nigga, he's a hero

"Give the crack to the kids: who the hell cares?

One less hungry mouth on the welfare!"

First ship 'em dope and let 'em deal to brothers

Give 'em guns, step back, watch 'em kill each other

"It's time to fight back," that's what Huey said

Two shots in the dark, now Huey's dead

I got love for my brother

But we can never go nowhere unless we share with each other

We gotta start making changes

Learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers

And that's how it's supposed to be

How can the Devil take a brother if he's close to me?

I'd love to go back to when we played as kids

But things change... and that's the way it is

HOOK: [Justin Timberlake]

That's just the way it is

Things'll never be the same

That's just the way it is

Aww yeah

VERSE 02:

Still see no changes, all I see is racist cases

We both have hate to disgrace our races

We under, I'll do whatever it takes to make this

A better place, let's erase the hatred

Let's cure the people from this disease, we all can lead a fight

Cause we all are human so let's start acting like it tonight

Why is it when I turn the TV on It is hard for us to survive

It takes a couple of words for peace, time for us to be polite

And although it seems hell bent

That the US needs us a another hero

Now we have too watch sista's be widows

Our jails is packed, it most of them is filled with blacks

But most things never changed

I'll tell you another way but it ain't cool just playing in the dirt, but hey

Can you tell me, what's a man gotta do?

Being real don't appeal to the shit you gotta do?

You want money the easy way

'' I sold weed today '' but you messed up in a shady way

Sellin drugs to these kids, '' I gotta make my way! ''

Well hey, that's the way it is

HOOK:

[2Pac/BreonKPrince Talking]

We gotta make a change

It's time for us as a people to start making some changes

Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live

(And let's change the way we treat each other

You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do

What we gotta do to survive)

VERSE 03:

And still I see no changes, can't a mother get a little peace

We got wars on our streets while kids is getting covered by sheets

Instead a cure on our poverty

No one cares about America's real priority

And I never write a rhyme I ain't have to do

Now me and Pac here both giving facts about caring back to you

You got to help em up, fix em up

Pick em up and word-play em up

You gotta learn to care about our own

When someone is in trouble or dying alone

And tell them pigs they “can't touch this”

I don't trust this, when they try to rush and bust this

Never the sound of a tool

It may not be cool, but our mama never raised no fool

And as long as we stay black, we gotta look back

Cause guns always go click clack

Cause Pac always gotta worry about the payback

Some cop that he roughed up way back

Thank you Pac for all them years

“Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat!” That's the way it is

HOOK:

[2Pac]

Some things'll never change