Change Is Coming

(album: The 18th Day - 2004)

Yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah, listen, listen, listen)
It's all about to change, yeah (yeah)
London, yeah, listen (woo, woo!)

From West Kent to West Coast to LA
Yeah, with [?] beats bumping everyday
Listen, yeah, yeah
Start wilding
Listen, all I need is one microphone to one mic standees alone
It's through this medium, I speak my mind
Though I'm taking everyday as blessed and everyday as dope
Whether I'm waking up smiling or I'm tired 'til the morning
I have to keep it moving, I have to keep my shit correct
'Member all the things you said I wouldn't get?
[?], sing it

Why is everybody so envious?
Because she in the worst planet, I'm taking over the rest
You'd be hard-pressed to find another girl like me
Change the style a few times, I hold it down right, you see?
From the bottom spitting, trust
Believe me when I say that the moment that you started bridging
It's here to stay back

Change is coming, shouldn't be the one that's found that
You know you see the signs, you better get your act right
Change is coming, shouldn't be the one that's found that (yeah)
You know you see the signs, you better get your act right

Stand out and be counted
You need to keep your head from out the mountains
Just for all my people struggling to count some housing
Designed to keep you in tact, hustling to pay your rent (then what?)
Then tell you that you can buy it then pile it at your expense
So when you try and get help, they're gonna tell you to cross
Charge ya all the way, entire too, you're always at a loss
You start between the rock and [?]
One heart is the other
No escape for my little cousins and brothers
It's time to change the way your life goes, right?
From the age of 13, you got the choices you all like
Don't let the past rule you (uh uh), choose your own rule too
It's something you know what I'm saying
It's something that you should do, this is true, listen

Change is coming, shouldn't be the one that's found that
You know you see the signs, you better get your act right
Change is coming, shouldn't be the one that's found that
You know you see the signs, you better get your act right

So now there's planes hitting buildings, five in the sky
Lord help the children, tell them not to cry
[?] that keep my heart right
Lord, I need wisdom, teach me how to write
Write to change lives, I'ma keep on stepping
Let me footprints show a little piece of heaven
I'm striving to reach the seven on this [?]
To keep my family fed and people out the jail, listen

To all of your drama (all of your drama)
And all of your pain (and your pain)
If you keep on pressing (come on, uh)
You see what's the gain (see this)
And nothing is promised (nah, nah, nah, nah, nah)
To anything, but one thing is set down and that is change

Change is coming, shouldn't be the one that's found that (shouldn't be, no)
You know you see the signs (you can see it), you better get your act right (you better get it right
Change is coming, shouldn't be the one that's found that (you shouldn't be, no)
You know you see the signs, you better get your act right (get it right)

Get it right, get it right, listen (get it right, get it right)
See North London, yo West London, yeah East London, South London
Great Britain, come on, come on (get it right, get it right)
You're the soul queen!
Worldwide, NY, Philly, LA, say what?
Yeah, Africa (Africa), come on, yeah, what, ha, yeah
Say this that EST [?], hehe
You ready? You ready?