J. Cole - Change The World lyrics

Let me tell you a little
Story about my homie Corey
Right now he's locked down
Serving at least forty
But excuse me, I got ahead of myself
I'm sorry son
This story starts in his youth
He was hardly one
When his pops got knocked for coping rocks
From under cover cops on the
Corner of his block
And he never got a chance to meet him
Cause the very next year his
Pops is laying still
In the prison cell bleeding from stab wounds
Fatal
Bad news Corey's mother and older brother
Already caught in the struggle
Brother barely ate tryna hustle
Just to carry weight
The whole family underweight cause


They rarely ate
One thing my nigga never got was love
And his whole childhood he
Was watching drug addicts
His brother supplying it
Old mother buying it
You expect a scientist to
Come from this environment get real!
This shit's hard enough brought up black
But being poor plus your mums on crack
And your brothers a hustler tryna take
You under his wing shit
Just a fucking wonder his breathing
If I could change the world I would
Snap my fingers and bad would turn to good
Let me change the world, I'm wishing
I promise you I'll make a difference
If I could change the world I would
Snap my fingers and bad would turn to good
Let me change the world, I'm wishing
I promise you ill make a difference

Age five, Corey had dreams to be a cop, but
Age six, his older brother passed the Glock
Let him hold it
Plans change, he started his campaign
Age thirteen, little boy doing big man things
And that's what he thought
He was jacking rims from mustangs
Beating down on his class
Mates for chump change
Running round with the tough gang
The older niggas he sold dope for 'em
They bought clothes for him
However, soon he got older and selling petty
Dimes turned into some pretty heavy crimes
The shit got to the point where he
Was stealing rides from his block
Even robbing quick stops
Ladies loved him, he was crazy fucking
Knocking boos daily
Pretty soon he had a baby coming
But he didn't claim it
His baby mother was crazy loving him
She said "Baby, let's settle down
" he left her hanging
He'd rather be on the streets
Slanging a wild cat
But god damn i seen it coming a mile back
A drug deal gone bad guns bursting
Now Corey lying in a cell cause he merked him
Whats the moral of the story?, figure it out
So the next time you ask why niggas are wild
You know with out a doubt
Don't try and deny the shit
Young black male
A product of his environment
If I could change the world I would
Snap my fingers and bad would turn to good
Let me change the world, I'm wishing
I promise you I'll make a difference
If I could change the world I would
Snap my fingers and bad would turn to good
Let me change the world, I'm wishing
I promise you ill make a difference

Cause i can't stand to
See my people struggling
But what we up against? tough
Conditions in this life
And they wonder why these
Niggas all get hype, get high and fist fight
Or why they live like they living
To get ice and cars no type of jobs
Income coming from dicing and robbing
Niggas in broad daylight
Its hard cause all they know
In this life is scars
This mic is all i need to change the globe
Re-arrange it and make it so
Niggas ain't in pain no more
Cause they they don't pay no
More mind to all youth
Till they got to locking them up
And dawg that's the truth yo
Thats the truth yo, that's the truth