Thats Just The Way It Is Lyrics - 2pac

oohhhhh 

yeh 

come on come on 

(1st Verse) 

I see no changes 

I wake up in the morning and I ask myself 

Is life worth livin' should I blast myself? 

I'm tired of bein poor and even worse I'm black 

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

Cops give a damn about a Negro 

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

Sell the crack the the kids, who the hell cares? 

One less hungry mouth on the welfare 

First ship 'em dope and let 'em deal the brothas 

Give 'em guns, step back and 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 brotha, but we can never go nowhere 

Unless we share wit each other 

We gotta start makin' changes 

Learn to see me as a brotha instead-a two distant strangers 

And that's how it's 'pose to be 

How can the Devil take a brotha 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. 

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(chorus) 

thats just the way it is 

things will never be the same 

thats just the ways it is 

aaw yeah 

thats just the way it is 

things will never be the same 

thats just the ways it is 

aaw yeah 

2x 

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(2nd Verse) 

I see no changes, all I see is racist faces 

Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races 

We under, I wonder what it takes to make this 

One better place, let's erase the wasted 

Take the evil out the people they'll be actin right 

'Cuz both black and white is smokin' crack tonight 

And the only time we chill is when we kill each otha 

It takes skill to be real time to heal each other 

And I know it seems heaven sent 

We aint ready to see a black presidant, unh 

it aint a secret don't conceal the facts, the penitentiaries packed 

And it's filled with blacks 

But some things will never change 

Ya try to show anotha way but ya stayin in the dope game 

Now tell me what's a motha to do 

Bein' real don't appeal to the brotha in you 

You gotta operate the easy way 

"I made a G today," , but you made it in a sleezy way 

Sellin crack to the kids, "I gotta get paid" 

Well hey, well thats the way it is 

Come on, come on 

(chorus) 

thats just the way it is 

things will never be the same 

thats just the ways it is 

aaw yeah 

thats just the way it is 

things will never be the same 

thats just the ways it is 

aaw yeah 

2x 

(Talking) 

You gotta make a change 

It's time for us as a people to start makin' 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 wan'ts workin, so its on us to do what we gotta do, to survive 

(3rd Verse) 

And still I see no changes 

Can't a brotha get a little peace 

There's war on the streets and war on the Middle east 

Instead of a war on poverty, 

They got a war on drugs so the police can bother me 

And I ain't never did a crime i aint have to do 

But now I'm back with the facts givin' it back to you 

So don't let 'em jack you up, back you up, crack you up, and pimp smack you up 

Ya gotta learn to hold ya own 

They get jealous when they see ya with ya mobile phone 

But tell the cops they can't touch this 

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

It's the sound on my tool, you it ain't cool 

My mama didn't raise no fool 

And as long as I stay black, I gotta stay strapped and i never get to lay back 

'Cuz I always gotta worry bout the payback 

Of some ruff that i ruffed up way back 

Comin back after all these years 

Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat 

That's the way its is 

(chorus) 

thats just the way it is 

things will never be the same 

thats just the ways it is 

aaw yeah 

thats just the way it is (you're my brotha your my sister, yeah) 

things will never be the same(neva be the same yeah, yeah aaw yeah) 

thats just the ways it is 

aaw yeah 

Some things will never change