Trae Tha Truth - Time for Change lyrics

No justice, no peace
And if there ain't gon' be no justice
There ain't gon' be no peace
Young people are enraged
And there's an easy way to stop it
Arrest the cops
Charge the cops, charge all the cops
Not just some of them
 charge them in every city
Across America where
Our people are being murdered
Charge them everywhere
That's the bottom line
Charge the cops, do your job hol' up

The way we runnin' out of time
It ain't no point of a clock
You might get killed for being black
No longer state of a shock
Too many lames to keep account
Like when the hell it's gon' stop?
Crooked cops treat us like ops to
Leave us dead in a box
Nobody love us but the hopeless
So we misunderstood
They feel like black lives don't matter
We just hopin' it could
They say racism don't exist, if not
Why the fuck we pissed?
They hate me 'cause my skin
I'm proudly ripping behind this fence
No more killing our own
That's why we gotta to stick together
I be damned if we don't fight
We've got to try this shit together
Dear Mr president, you're fucking us over
Like we a terroristic threat
The ghetto covered in soldiers
Fear my only chance to live is
With my hand on the trigger
Way they did the homie Floyd
I feel they hunting for niggas
They don't love me, momma
Everyday we under attack
Knowing I try to turn away, I
Might get shot in the back, fact

I can't even sleep right, starin' at the gun
Should be staring at the peace pipe
Hard to see what peace like
45, still get scared from the police lights
And I came up real rough
Right under the street lights
Democrats, Republicans, Mr president
Mr bill Gates
Everybody's tired of the suffering
(Everybody's tired)
First it was the quarantine
And Black Lives Matter (Pay attention)
Now back to the quarantine
And black lives shatter (Pay no attention)
Police wearing riot gear, black child scatter
Imagine all the pain and the
Hate it takes with 'em
Wanna make a vaccine and make it for racism
(Make that) still praying to the Father and
Keeping my faith in him

Look at the news and tell me
What do you see?
The cops just killed another black man
That look just like me
And naw, this ain't the first time
And it won't be the last
Unless you stand up against it
So get up off your ass
Because this is the place
And right now is the time
To let em know where I stand and
How I get down for mine
They keep killing my brothers and sisters
Getting away with it
So I'm on the frontlines
And I ain't finna play with it
Black people in America have been oppressed
So we demandin' racial equality, nothing less
For what they did in the past and still do
Wouldn't you want somebody to ride
If they killed you?

It's Mysonne
Nah, the revolution will be televised
But they keep choking, beating
Shooting us and telling lies
We better sever ties with this government
(Facts) you silent about your pain
They gon' swear that you lovin' it
Crime don't fit the punishment
No niggas doin' forever
Nah, freedom ain't free
We got to do it together
That means, by whatever means necessary
I'm doing God's work
So that means I'm too blessed to worry
Believe I'm just next to carry
The cross for my people fuck cause
We've got to stay the course until we equal
When we lost George Floyd
The conscious starting shifting
I feel like Pac fresh up out of prison
I guess I'm just different, my heart pure
Field nigga
Fuck I'm gon' stay in the house for? (Why?)
If it ain't real
What you open your mouth for?
Yeah, I'm a team player
But I'll do it without y'all
I'm fighting them southpaws (That's right)
'Cause, I know what's at stake
We lose then we doomed
There's no room for mistakes (None)
I'm doin' what it takes, on God
We've got to beat 'em (Gotta)
No justice, no peace
I'm fighting until freedom

No, we don't know what the future holds
But, I know, it got to change
And I pray, I pray that someday we will
But, you should know you're not alone
But still we gon' fight

I remember 2Pac said it first
Realest shit I heard ever before
You got money for war
But never the hungry and poor
But that why they burning your store
As a message to all
If the only way you could be tall
Is for everyone to be stuck on they knee
Then fuck it, you small, you wack or you weak
It ain't no explanation why assassination of
Black men and women continue repeat
But this generation don't care 'bout no
Racist, they ready to die, eye for an eye
2 losses for one, take it however it come
You black, better get you a gun
I ain't dying for nothing, but
Anyone shooting my son
I'm coming to shoot at the son
And fuck white supremacy and
All of the business
That been supportive of it since it begun
Gotta cancel our orders, do that for our
Daughters and all of our sisters
We owe it to them
No hesitation, gon' go up for them
The of my future, I blew it for them
Attack, especially now that the Lord with me

Heavenly Father
I can't hold back these tears
Niggas been sufferin' for years
(Sufferin' for years)
Can't get a break down here
(Can't seem to get a break down here)
Cover my children
We shouldn't be livin' in fear
People just tryin' to live (Tryin' to live)
Can't get a break down here
(Can't seem to get a break down here)

Another black man killed by police again
Another child with a father
They'll never see again
That's all I see when I turn my TV to CNN
(That's all I see)
Wonder when it's gon' stop
When we gon' see an end
(When it's gon' stop)
Yeah, free all the homies that's
Still in the cage (Free the homies)
Over-sentenced by crooked judges
And racist DA's
Racism in the system is harder
Sentenced a little harsher 'cause my
Skin a little darker, look
(Talk to 'em)
We deal with all kinds of injustice
My uncle died in police custody and
Not a cop was arrested
Sometimes I wish that Obama
Could've got reelected
The black vote is our power and
We got to protect it

The people want change
So don't think it's strange when you see
The people enraged from being enslaved to the
Would eventually get up and swing back
Fight back even niggas to police, the people
Is ready to strike back, like that
Leavin' us dead in the streets, the
People are heated, strike match, like that
Televised so you can see it
The people, they need it
The scene is white-black
Too bad that we had to die
How many more men do they gonna kill?
No need to pretend 'cause this shit is real
Don't be blinded by the red and blue lights
It's time to ride, it's time to rise up
Pay attention and open your eyes up
A little wider
Maybe we need to think a little wiser
Reach higher can be the incredible
The success is inevitable
Innovators, creators, and motivators
For some reason they act like
They scared of us though
So they wanted us grown
They wanted us raised
That will not flow, so we gotta beef
We lettin' 'em know we ain't finna
Be takin' this shit no more
No justice no peace, this means war
What do ya think they screamin' for?
Figured it's time that we givin' the score
So I got a question for 'em
A message for 'em what about us?

I heard somebody say that all lives matter
But not in this matter
Black lives matter right now
That's all that matters
Y'all president messy and immature
Full of shit, cow manure
I might not know politics
But I know prejudice
And Santa Claus ain't got nothin'
To do with Jesus
His hair was like wool, and it was nappy
(It was nappy)
I put that on God, his pappy (His pappy)
Preach

Dear sister
Look I'm sorry for the things I did
When they kill ya in the darkness
We ran and hid
We were ripped from our families
Didn't raise our kids

But shit, who raised us?
We got used to the pain, it didn't faze us
I don't want change
I wanna take aim at our oppressor
'Til my pistol's in his fuckin' mouth
Yours is on the dresser at the crib
And if we march
Then let's mob to where he lives
Bandanas on our fuckin' faces
Peace to Freddie Gibbs
Get capped on your song, bitch, I don't kneel
I'm from the home of Medgar Evers
And where Emmett Till got killed
Fuck the NFL and basketball
And weak-ass deals
Black kids out here dyin'
Fuck how white folks feel young bitch

Repeat after me people power (People power)
Political power (Political power)
Economic power (Economic power)
Say his name (George Floyd)
Say his name (George Floyd)
Say his name (George Floyd)