《Changes》是2Pac、Talent共同演唱的歌曲，发行于1998年10月13日，后收录于2Pac精选集《Greatest Hits》中。

Come on come on

来吧

I see no changes wake up in the morning and I ask myself

我未曾看到任何改变，当清晨醒来我问自己

is life worth living should I blast myself?

生活值得继续下去吗？还是我该一枪毙了自己？

I'm tired of bein' poor & even worse I'm black

我已经受够了贫穷的生活，更糟糕的是我是个黑人

my stomach hurts so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch

我的肚子饿得发痛，我正寻找机会偷个钱包

Cops give a damn about a negro

警察们不会把黑人当人来看待

pull the trigger kill a ***** he's a hero

扣动杀了黑鬼，他就成了英雄

Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares

把给了小孩，又有谁在乎过？

one less hungry mouth on the welfare

只是少了一个靠社会福利吃饭的蛀虫罢了

First ship 'em **** & let 'em deal the brothers

一开始把传给黑人让他们卖给弟兄们

give 'em guns step back watch 'em kill each other

给他们闪到一边，看他们自相残杀

It's time to fight back that's what Huey said

Huey说：“是时候反击了!”

2 shots in the dark now Huey's dead

暗处两声，Huey死了

I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere

我爱我的弟兄们但是我们无法前进

unless we share with each other

除非我们互相分享

We gotta start makin' changes

我们需要开始做出一些改变

learn to see me as a brother instead of 2 distant strangers

学会把我当成兄弟而不是两个遥不可及的陌生人

and that's how it's supposed to be

世事本应如此

How can the Devil take a brother if he's close to me?

如果我的兄弟与我关系密切,恶魔怎么可能带走他的生命?

I'd love to go back to when we played as kids

我想要回到我们童年玩耍的时光

but things changed, and that's the way it is

但是事情变化了,世事就是如此

Bridge w/ changing ad libs

Come on come on

来吧

That's just the way it is

世事就是如此

Things'll never be the same

事情不会一成不变

That's just the way it is

世事就是如此

aww yeah

啊,耶

Repeat

2

I see no changes all I see is racist faces

我看不到变化,我看到的只是种族歧视者的嘴脸

misplaced hate makes disgrace to races

错位的仇恨使我们为身为黑人而感到耻辱

We under I wonder what it takes to make this

我们身陷这种境地，我想知道如何才能使它变成

one better place, let's erase the wasted

一个更好的地方，让我们消除种族歧视

Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right

移除人们内心的恶魔，他们就会一心向善

'cause both black and white is smokin' crack tonight

因为无论是黑是白，今晚都在吸食

and only time we chill is when we kill each other

我们只有在互相残杀的时候才会保持冷静

it takes skill to be real, time to heal each other

真诚待人需要技巧，治愈对方的心灵是需要时间

And although it seems heaven sent

虽然是上帝派遣

We ain't ready, to see a black President, uhh

我们还没有做好准备迎接一位黑人总统

It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact

这不是秘密,不要隐藏事实

the penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks

监狱里充斥着黑人，人满为患

But some things will never change

但是有些事从未改变

try to show another way but you stayin' in the **** game

我想告诉你别的糊口方式，但你依旧身陷于交易

Now tell me what's a mother to do

现在告诉我，母亲的责任是什么？

bein' real don't appeal to the brother in you

做一个真诚的人，别再做内心中那样的混混

You gotta operate the easy way

你需要简洁行事

“我今天赚了一张大钞”，但是你用一种肮脏的手法得到了它

把卖给孩子！“我必须要赚钱”

Well hey, well that's the way it is

是啊，事情就是这样

Bridge

Talking:

We gotta make a change...

我们必须着手改变

It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.

是时候让我们作为一个人开始改变了

Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live

让我们改变我们的饮食习惯，让我们改变我们的生活方式

and let's change the way we treat each other.

让我们改变对待他人的方式

You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do

你瞧，老办法已经不奏效了，所以轮到我们

what we gotta do, to survive.

来做一些我们需要做的来生存下去

3

And still I see no changes can't a brother get a little peace

但我仍旧看不到一点变化，我根本得不到平静的生活

It's war on the streets & the war in the Middle East

这是属于街头的战争正如中东战争一样

Instead of war on poverty they got a war on drugs

他们发起了对的战争而不是针对贫困

so the police can bother me

所以警察们困扰着我

And I ain't never did a crime I ain't have to do

我从未犯罪除非逼不得已

But now I'm back with the blacks givin' it back to you

但是现在我回来，有一些事实要告诉你们

Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up,

别让他们你、让你后退

crack you up and pimp slap you up

逼你，别让皮条客给你耳光！

You gotta learn to hold ya own

你需要学会自己保持坚强

they get jealous when they see ya with ya mobile phone

他们看到你拿着手机就会心生嫉妒

But tell the cops they can't touch this

但要告诉他们不许碰

I don't trust this when they try to rush I bust this

我绝不相信他们，他们敢靠近我我就开枪

That's the sound of my tool you say it ain't cool

那是我的枪的声音，你觉得这很不冷静

my mama didn't raise no fool

我妈妈养的可不是一个蠢货

And as long as I stay black I gotta stay strapped

只要我还是一个黑人，我就需要保持全副武装

& I never get to lay back

我永远不会后退

'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs

因为我一直担心着敌人的报复

some buck that I roughed up way back

某个被我粗暴对待的混混

comin' back after all these years

会在一些年后回来找我麻烦

rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat that's the way it is uhh

上膛！啪，事情就是这样，嗯

Bridge 'til fade

2009年，以罗马教皇本笃十六世（Pope Benedict XVI）为首的教会日前被要求挑选出自己最喜欢的十二首歌，用来帮助MySpace的新功能创建一个播放列表，该曲被选中。梵蒂冈教会对这份歌曲列表做了一个注解，称“这个列表融合了经典、世界及当代音乐，这些类别每个都非常不同，但是这些艺人都有一个共同的目标，那就是让他们的音乐深入有思想的人的心中。”