Can't Stay The Same ft. Richard Luis Lyrics

I don't know how, but I gotta make a change I do know why I can't stay the same

I don't know how, but I gotta make a change

I do know why I can't stay the same

This one's for all my dogs doin' state time From the street, juvie hall, even wayside

Gotta eat, get your money, keep a strong mind This ain't defeat, don't be stressin', doin' short time

Learn your lesson, it's a blessing, you still got your life

Some of these fools ain't goin' home, it's their third strike

Live and learn, don't be concerned with the outside

No rewinds, nothing's given if you did the crime

You know the rest is a test, better get right We need progress, Bounce , say what up to Spex

They freed Erbs , here's to hopin' that Gerardo's next

Anybody speakin' down, best protect your neck And I ain't gonna sit around and preach a church life

But if you live without fear, had to earn stripes Been on a tier, walked the yard with a big knife

Ain't nothin' here but war dogs, bunch of lost time

I don't know how, but I, I gotta make a change I do know why, I can't stay the same

I don't know how, but I, I gotta make a change I do know why, I can't stay the same

I don't know how, but I, I gotta make a change I do know why, I can't stay the same

Read books, wrote lyrics just to pass time Shut up and listened to the older heads every time

Tattoo parties, pruno batch , stinkin' up the cell

Pinochle games, playin' spades every day I dwell

And motherfuckin' sheriffs swear we got a problem with em

Ain't that a bitch without a badge, that's for sure they hit em

Upstate's a different thing, C.O.'s know the biz

There's no time for play, survival of the fit But I promise those mistakes made me a better man

And let's be honest, that shit rotten, livin' in the can

And ain't no females in the joint, you gotta fuck your hand

Don't be a dummy, think it's funny, hope you understand

They can control us if they hold us, according to the man

All that is bogus, need to focus on the fuckin' plan

They think it's hopeless, we're atrocious, how they throw us in

So the consensus is, fuck the system till the end

They say it's rehabilitation, but they gettin' paid

For every motherfuckin' day that you in the cage

And I ain't gonna lie, we can't stay the same

It ain't easy, we gotta make a change

I don't know how, but I, I gotta make a change

I do know why I can't stay the same

I don't know how, but I, I gotta make a change

I do know why, I can't stay the same

I don't know how, but I, I gotta make a change

I do know why, I can't stay the same

I don't know how, but I, I gotta make a change

I do know why, I can't stay the same