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The More Things Change (The More They Stay The Same)
Fat Tony

[Fat Tony]

Every night I look up at the twinkling stars

In the sky asking, where the fuck is my God?

And I wanna scream at the top of my lungs

But I'm afraid I'll be hung or have to face they gun

How come we ain't got no fuckin place for ourself?

I'm 13 years old tryna fend for myself

In a home that ain't mine, but if I get out of line

Gotta feel that whip all against my spine, oh my

But tonight we rise, tonight we ride

Tonight we get our slice of the pie

I got my sister ready, got my daddy ready, mama ready

And my big bro got the overseer's old machete

We creep in when we know they sleepin

If they peep me or any of my kin we gon have to leave em bleedin

But soon as I spoke here they approach

The only thing on my mind… is the rope

But fuck that, I'm above that, let's go for broke!

Been here for too long, too wronged, all my folk!

Now, mister, we ain't tryna bring no evil up in here

We tryna be equal with all our peers

And I looked into his eyes, and he looked into mine

And put down his rifle, but picked up a knife

And slit my throat in front of all my people

And I hoped my story would never be a sequel but it was just a prequel


The more things change, the more they stay the same

The more things change, the more they stay the same


August 15th, 1965

L.A., Watts riots

Day 5 and I'm 15

My neighborhood's fucked up like a bad dream

Got the police closing off the whole streets

Sickin dogs to suck a nigga just like a leech

And me and my friends, at our wit's ends

Tryna figure out how to get out

Cause we don't think it's finna end soon

I rounded up my niggas and formed a platoon

Told em, each and everyone, to invite they crew

Cause we gotta do what we gotta do


Think about everything that we ever, ever been through

And everything our parents ever been through

And everything they parents ever been through too!

What would a white man do if he was you?

And with that I said, fuck it, and picked up the tool

Cause when I think about slave boats

Both my eyes get wetter than a raincoat

Dang, ho, think I can't take no mo

I'm bout to blow, I think I need a angel

And just then I heard a cop say, nigger, no!

I think he peeped the pistol by my navel

Shots rang out and it was fatal


The more things change, the more they stay the same

The more things change, the more they stay the same


As I watched Malcolm X give his last address and bullets hit his chest

I couldn't stop weepin while I was peepin Spike Lee reinterpret it

And on my mama's bed, I sat and held my head

My body filled with dread, wondering when I'd be dead

And all this as a little kid

I had to ponder in my own mind

How a man of honor can kill his own kind

And barely get convicted of his own crime

And all this in the young prophet's own prime, oh my

It's the hate that hate made, and even though my girl loves Kate Spade

I bet if they were around in '58, they probably wouldn't even serve our race

Probably couldn't show our face, they would have to separate it

We'd be sittin, bitchin, wishin we could leave the town we hated

We think we made it

But most the bullshit we still face it

And I for one am not gon be complacent

I'm taken aback, ain't takin a nap

Now don't take it wrong, we should all get along

But who got faith in that?


Cause the more things change, the more they stay the same

The more things change, the more they stay the same


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