Ah real Gonna put it All these little crime Homeless the world is boy It's like the way it is Heavy out there, it's
Was I really such a bad child that I to get hit with boards And whooped with cords? Did you forget I was your creation And all I wanted from you all was love and motivation?
Son, you're disrespectful and talking back, get out my face me out the house and wouldn't even let me plead my case Now, I'm homeless and I'm like the morgue The only thing me alive is the Lord
Needless to say it's times like this I'd rather be up then Drinkin' water out my hands and out of garbage cans Can I back home, huh could I? Son, you're on own, why should I?
things'll never change, that's just the way it is Nobody's even things'll never change, that's just the way it is When will we learn?
Huh, three years now, I think I'm gon be straight I put my name on the for section 8 out for the army but I was flat footed Didn't do no harm to me, 'cuz I was to it
If I for some work, let's make a bet get the nine 'cuz I don't know about the Internet What do you think we need to do to about this nation? Need to provide more and better education
Nuclear weapons, puh, be stopping crimes Already got enough to the world up a thousand times The birds and the bees, disease pregnancies, STDs
Some things'll change, that's just the way it is Nobody's even Some things'll never change, just the way it is will we ever learn?
A wait, a a minute, I hear sirens Oh, that's the couple the street Domestic violence either or the little girl in 306 She's always telling everyone that she gon slice her
I that's the way it is in the life of sin Where you'll end up dead, or in the pen But my family ain't no better the next My Brenda turned her own sister in for writing bad checks
And save folks try to hit you where it Knowin' they the biggest in the church We need to give our minds a bath and do some Stop the hate and the lovin'
Some things'll never change, that's the way it is even concerned Some never change, that's just the way it is When will we learn?
Some things'll never change, that's the way it is Nobody's even Some never change, that's just the way it is When will we ever Learn, learn, learn,