Change - Tunnel Rats

The chain continues for centuries long

Severs from a crippling disease of the mind

Linked together in a soul low redemption song

Just to relieve ourselves of the bind

Word from fuzz said natural instincts got I doing wrong

The less free I am, the more intertwined

Hip to Psalm 21, Matthew, Hosea and John

These anchored lines twisting me back up into the vine

Leading me back on my journey to naturalize on

While coils of bitter sweet wrapped around my throat to imbibe

Family ties choke out values, regrets of where they went wrong

Divided on my own holdin' on redirecting to God

Settlin' on an iron strong sense of where I belong

Snapped the line cutting curses from the roots inside

Said I’m changing for my sister, changing for my aunts

Breaking the chains for my daughters, I’m changing for my moms

(Change)

Said my people need to, I said my sisters need to

I said my brothers tell me why the police just can’t change

Music needs to, said now hip-hop needs to

Said the church needs to change

'Posters need to, I need to

I said my crew needs to, I said my family needs to

Politicians need to change

To all my poets and freaks, peace

I’m here to honor the beats see in the 40s

Literary kingniks mixed imaginary jazz to modern prose

Their philosophies impose changeability

Dharma burns evolved to hippies

Latter 60s, big bro and rock 'n' roll

From one man’s perception the voice that caused a reaction

In people who fought for it to happen when change was unacceptable

Now suppose you could modify the changeless

Rearrange for lack of sameness

Exchange to receive greatness or deeper soul

Angelou and Kerouac extract the abstract in language

Better the mad and the strangest, pure and spontaneous

Confessional impressions of personal pain

Didn’t use conventional English sentences to explain

Holy slang, no thought to pause, merge text to sound improvise

Ad-lib young poets change over your false methods and lies

Some say the prose of the past is the hip-hop of today

Agreed in freestyle but in content and mentality

Sucker rhymers need to change

(Change)

Teachers need to, students need to

Rock 'n' roll has to change

People need to change, lives needs to

I said now music needs, radio needs to change

Gangstas need to change, LA needs to

I said New York needs to, I said this country needs to change

Changing for my brother, I’m changing for my son

Breaking the chains for my father cause we must succumb to change

Said we could all achieve this

Death ain’t no problem if we all united, change

It can be violent, it can be pain

It’s change, it’s all the same

Notice that time will waste if you complain

Embrace the change

Ain’t no runnin' from and ain’t no escape

Just watch the sun rise, the moon shines soon

Your momma, father, inner vision it needs to proceed

No further church or prestige in the waves of change

(Change)

My people need to, ayo this city needs to

I can’t understand or figure out why people don’t

Ayo my family needs to, I say this country needs to

These weak songs they be playing on the radio should

And yo the system need to, these wack styles gotta

These fake pounds and fake smiles people giving me should

(Change)

Your attitude needs to, your work ethic needs to

The things you want need to, the way you thought needs to

The way you treat people like they less than equal needs to

Change