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positive, hip hop, progressive, rap
Strictly hip hop, no rap here. Focusing on the positive side but still illuminating the truth.
Song Info
Genre
Charts
#139,822 today
Peak #1,298
#5,243 in subgenre
Peak #37
Author
MikeColangelo
Uploaded
April 10, 2005
Track Files
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MP3 4.6 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
beat by kingsmen productions
Lyrics
Yea baby boy,
This is the one u been waiting for
Changes
This is the one that’s gonna lift yo spirit the second you hear it
Changes
This is the one that’s gonna make you wanna change the world
And give hope to every single boy and girl
Changes
We’ve come a long way in a couple hundred years
Just thinking about it makes me bubble up tears
I mean we used to ship slaves by boat
Women didn’t even have the right to vote
We were so divided we had civil war
The south wanted to secede from the union and close the door
We had no unity, could barely hold together the U.S. community
Then we had different water fountains, different schools, different bathrooms
America was consumed
By racial prejudice
And some of us had to sit in the back of da bus
Back of da theaters
It was all smoke in mirrors
But you know what America I still love you
Cause we survived world one and two
And somehow we survived the depression and the holocaust
Millions of people we have wrongfully lost, to heaven
Columbine, Nine eleven
And we’re still livin in a war on terror
Tryin to make things fairer
Yea we’ve made so many changes to date
But we’ve got so many more changes to make
Yo changes
Instead of talking about bustin caps
Let’s close the gap
I shouldn’t make 24 more cents on the dollar than the lady next to me
Especially when she’s raisin a baby solitarily
Yo I’m fightin for change with the intensity of a Sunny Liston
Were’s the justice in the justice system?
Prison shouldn’t just be a cage
And we gotta raise our minimum wage
How can you raise a fam at five fifteen an hour?
And I hate this white power black power, man power ish
How bout we have one power kid
And we gotta stop stereotypin black males as thugs
Take it easy on the drugs
Cause crack ill kill you and coke’s not a joke
In a world full of liars and fires
We gotta see past the smoke
And we all gotta extend a hand to a fellow American
I gotta feeling that things are never gonna be the same
Yo just like bums on the street I just wanna see some change
Changes
We’ve got a few Tupacs, MLK’s, and Bob Marley’s
But we’ve only got two political parties
Politics are corrupted
Fuck it
I wanna see a black female for president
We gotta realize that the outside is completely irrelevant
We gotta make marriage more significant
I mean the divorce rate is now fifty percent
See the truth is darker than fifty cent
But the only way to see change is to make change yourself
So let’s change like the seasons
Today everybody go out and help somebody for no reason
Donate to your favorite charity
We need to outline our goals with clarity
From coast to coast we gotta change like the Dodgers
And I’m not trying to be Mr. Rogers
But maybe we should love our neighbor a little more
Maybe tonight we should all unlock our doors
And listen as the voice of change roars
See progress isn’t so distant
So lets all go out and make more change than the U.S. Mint
Changes
Makin changes
2005
And I know where gonna survive
Hell we’re gonna make things better
All we gotta do is work together
And I’ll be that voice
MikeColangelo
So its just time to feel good and rejoice
Yea yea yea
Cause tomorrow’s gonna be better than today
Yea it is I swear to God it is
And the day after tomorrow’s gonna be even better than that
I could feel it its coming
You know why?
Yea why
Cause changes are takin place
Changes?
Changes, changes baby
Yea it feels good doesn’t it
Changes baby, changes
