J. Cole - Change The World lyrics

[Verse 1: J. Cole] Let me tell you a little story about my homie Corey Right now hes locked down serving at least forty But excuse me, i got ahead of myself, I'm sorry son This story starts in hes youth, he was hardly one When hes pops got knocked for coping rocks From under cover cops on the corner of hes block And he never got a chance to meet him Cause the very next year hes 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 n***a never got was love And hes whole childhood he was watching drug addicts His brother supplying it, old mother buying it You expect a scientist to come from this enviroment Get real!, this sh**s hard enough brought up black But being poor plus your mums on crack And your brothers a hustler tryna take you under hes wing sh**, just a f**ing wonder hes breathing [Hook: J. Cole] 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 [Verse 2: J. Cole] Age five, Corey had dreams to be a cop, but Age six, hes older brother pa**ed the Glock, let him hold it Plans change, he started hes 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 cla** mates for chump change Running round with the tough gang The older n***as 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 Hes sh** got to the point where he was stealing rides from hes block Even robbing quick stops Ladies loved him, he was crazy f**ing 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 lets 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 n***as are wild, you know with out a doubt Don't try and deny the sh**, a young black male a product of his environment [Hook: J. Cole] 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 [Verse 3: J. Cole] 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 n***as 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 n***as 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 n***as 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