Change

My intuition is telling me there'll be better days

Yeah

My intuition is telling me there'll be better days

Yeah

My intuition is telling me there'll be better days

I sit in silence and find whenever I meditate

My fears alleviate, my tears evaporate

My faith don't deviate, ideas don't have a date

But see, I'm growing and getting stronger with every breath

Bringing me closer to Heaven's doors with every step

As we speak, I'm at peace, no longer scared to die

Most **** don't believe in God and so they terrified

It's either that, or they be fearing they gon' go to Hell

Asking the Father for forgiveness got 'em overwhelmed

As if he spiteful like them white folks that control the jail

See, I believe if God is real, he'd never judge a man

Because he knows us all, and therefore, he would understand

The ignorance that make a **** take his brother life

The bitterness and pain that got him beating on his wife

I know you desperate for a change, let the pen glide

But the only real change come from inside

But the only real change come from inside

But the only real change come from

In cemeteries or in chains, I see men cry

But the only real change come from inside

But the only real change come from inside

But the only real change come from

My chosen religion, Jesus piece frozen from sinning

Doing dirt, hoping to God he know my intentions

To see a million 'fore I see a casket

I got a baby on the way, know he gon' be a bastard

I'm living fast like I'm in a drag race, how that cash taste?

When I was a senior, I was balling on my classmates

**** put three bullets in my car, one hit the gas tank

Know I got a angel 'cause I'm supposed to have a halo right now

My lifestyle destined for a federal facility

For my ability to make them birds fly

Fiends wan' get higher than a birds-eye view

And who am I to tell a **** what to do? I just supply

It's economics, my business ain't got the suit and tie

Keep a pistol at all times, **** want what's mine

I can't oblige, dog, I work too hard

So reach for it, get referred to God, I'm going hard, ****

I know you desperate for a change, let the pen glide

But the only real change come from inside

But the only real change come from inside

But the only real change come from

In cemeteries or in chains, I see men cry

But the only real change come from inside

But the only real change come from inside

But the only real change come from

Prodigal Son, got a new gun

This one don't run outta ammo, lately, been working on my handles

Can I ball, become a star, and remain myself?

If I fall, dust it off and regain myself

Fuck 'em all, they don't know all the pain I felt

I'm in awe, after all of the fame I felt

I evolved, I no longer bury demons

I'll be a vessel for the truth until I'm barely breathing, I'm singing

Life is all about the evolution

I give up, I give in, I move back a little

I live up, I look up, now, I'm back for more

You can dream, but don't neglect the execution

I give up, I give in, I move back a little

I live up, I look up, now, I'm back for more

Time is short, that's what somebody told me

I give up, I give in, I move back a little

I live up, I look up, now I'm back for more

Too short to keep following your homies

I give up, I give in, I move back a little

I live up, I look up, now, I'm back for more

I reminisce to back to a time when **** threw they hands

All of a sudden **** popping trunk and then, we scram

Finger on trigger make a little **** understand

What it's like to finally be the motherfucking man

Eyes wide, that's from the power that the coward feels

**** die over bitches, disrespect and dollar bills

Bloodshed done turned the city to a battlefield

I call it poison, you call it real, that's how you feel?

Pistols be popping, and **** drop in a heartbeat

Scatter like roaches, a body laid on the concrete

Body laid on the concrete

Look, somebody laid on the concrete

No time for that, ain't no looking back 'cause I'm running, too

I made it home, I woke up and turned on the morning news

Overcame with a feeling I can't explain

'Cause that was my **** James that was slain

He was twenty-two

He was twenty-two

We're gathered here today to mourn the life

Of James McMillan Junior

Tragedy, another tragedy in the Black community

We got to do better, people

Twenty-two years old, this boy was too young

Our condolences are with his family, our prayers

We know he's in a better place

We know he's in a better place

But this has got to end, ladies and gentlemen

We have got to come together, this is

This is beyond words

Now, I'd like to open this ceremony with a verse