Ah It's Gonna put it All these little thangs Homeless the is crazy boy It's this the way it is Heavy out there, heavy
Was I really such a bad child that I deserved to get hit with And with extension cords? Did you forget that I was creation And all I wanted you all was love hope and motivation?
Son, you're disrespectful and talking back, get out my face Kicked me out the and wouldn't even let me plead my case Now, I'm and I'm freezing like the morgue The only keeping me alive is the Lord
Needless to say it's times like this I'd be locked up then Drinkin' water out my and eatin' 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 Some things'll change, that's just the way it is When will we learn?
Huh, three years from now, I I'm gon be straight I put my name on the list for 8 Tried out for the army but I was flat do no harm to me, 'cuz I was used to it
If I apply for work, let's make a bet I'll get the nine I don't know about the Internet do you think we need to do to change about this nation? Need to provide more and better education
Nuclear weapons, puh, should be stopping got enough to blow the world up a thousand times The birds and the bees, disease pregnancies, STDs
Some things'll never change, just the way it is Nobody's even Some things'll change, that's just the way it is When will we ever
A wait, a a minute, I hear sirens Oh, the couple down the street violence either them or the little girl in 306 She's telling everyone that she gon slice her wrists
I guess the way it is in the life of sin Where prolly end up dead, or in the pen But my family ain't no better than the My Brenda turned her own sister in for writing bad checks
And save try to hit you where it hurts Knowin' they the biggest in the church We need to give our minds a bath and do scrubbin' Stop the hate and start the
Some never change, that's just the way it is even concerned Some things'll change, that's just the way it is will we ever learn?
Some never change, that's just the way it is Nobody's concerned Some things'll never change, that's the way it is When will we learn? Learn, learn, learn,