Change

[Verse 1: B. Dot]
How could you do this to me I thought you loved me
I painted a pretty picture when shit looked ugly
I came back to the city that we was from and taught you that gangbanging was dumb, put down your gun dog, why didn’t you trust me?
Like, how could you bust at me while I’m busting on, white supremacy enemies
Opening doors for kin to see, that life is bigger than Black & Milds and Hennessy
How could you sentence me, to a lifetime of nothing, a lifetime of nothing
Meaning that after I’m gone I don’t know what I’ma see
But while I was here I tried to get you to open your mind up and think
Like, look what they do in the system
Look at the disproportional amount of brothers that’s locked in prison, dog why didn’t you listen?
Like, how could you aim at me and just bust yo’ heater?
Dog, I wasn’t tryna be no fucking leader
Like, how could those assumptions lead you to jump on me?
They prying in yo’ bidness, I tried to protect yo’ company
Like, damn, dog, why didn’t you believe in me?
Like, what was the problem what didn’t you see in me?
I thought I was leading the role man, of a Chopin
‘Bout how to get the people more land
Tryna protect you from ya’ own niggas that come through ya’ window like Bro-Man
But you’d rather be a casualty of war, a war that we can’t even benefit from
Novocaine in the brain feeling numb
Cocaine in my veins still feel the pain from the days Ronald Reagan brung
Evil in the inner city, tryna talk to my niggas to get ‘em to really reason wit’ me
But to no avail
Dog it rained bullets for a hundred days and a hundred nights, why we couldn’t get the same boat Noah sailed?
Same story told ‘til you sell ya’ soul when you go to hell
But this is hell on earth, and for what it’s worth all I did is put my people first

[Chorus: B. Dot]
I know we can change, I know we can change
I know we can change, I know we can change
I know we can change, I know we can change
I know we can change, I know we can change
I know we can change, I know we can change
I know we can change, I know we can change
I know we can change, I know we can change
Change, change

[Verse 2: B. Dot]
Yeah, how could you shoot at me I’m teaching unity
Same thing that the police’ll try to go do to you they’ll try to do to me
It’s time to link, before you go and make a move, you know you gotta think
We gotta meet, it’s the right time
Whoever ain’t wit’ it they don’t got a grip on this tight grind, that’s the bottom line
And them niggas nothing like mine
They talk to you niggas with no sense, they ain’t even in they right mind
Momma told me do not trust you niggas, now I gotta be like ‘right mom’
But my lights off, how you niggas feel taking out my momma’s sunshine, what ya’ life cost?
Once you got the Tree of Knowledge they wanna be pythons, what ya’ ice cost?
What good is a Jesus piece with diamonds nigga ya’ life lost
Made that light yours but I fought the cause, represented for the melanated
Tried to warn you ‘bout the martial law when it crack off don’t be devastated
Look at the brand of the man, I try to teach my people how to be elevated
They smacking they lips and they hissing me ‘cause I teach history, mad ‘cause I’m educated
But look at the pastor preaching the rapture
Scare tactics, out the Good Book, take a good look, that’s a good crook, got you niggas shook, history took
Can’t tell me shit about Africa
They driving ya’ soul wrong road, and you just knocked out in the passenger
Ancestors all mad at ya’, pledging ya’ allegiance America
White cops wanna bury ya’, white America still seem scared of ya’
But you mad at me huh nigga? You mad at me huh nigga?
Don’t wanna learn nothing from me, just wanna bang, like ‘where is you from nigga?’
You mad at me huh nigga? You mad at me huh nigga?
Don’t wanna learn nothing from me, just wanna bang, like ‘where is you from nigga?’

[Chorus: B. Dot]
I know we can change, I know we can change
I know we can change, I know we can change
I know we can change, I know we can change
I know we can change, I know we can change
I know we can change, I know we can change
I know we can change, I know we can change
I know we can change, I know we can change
Change, change