"A Change Is Gonna Come" is a 1964 single by Soul/R&B singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, written and first recorded in 1963 and released under the RCA Victor label shortly after his death in late 1964. Though only a modest hit for Cooke in comparison with his previous singles, the song came to exemplify the 1960s'  Civil Rights Movement. 
The song has gained in popularity and critical acclaim in the decades since its release, and is #12 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

I was born by the river in a little tent 
Oh and just like the river I've been running every since 
It's been a long, a long time coming 
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will 

It's been too hard living but I'm afraid to die 
Cause I don't know what's up there beyond the sky 
It's been a long, a long time coming 
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will 

I go to the movie and I go downtown 
somebody keep telling me don't hang around 
It's been a long, a long time coming 
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will 

Then I go to my brother 
And I say brother help me please 
But he winds up knockin' me 
Back down on my knees 

Ohhhhhhhhh..... 

There been times that I thought I couldn't last for long 
But now I think I'm able to carry on 
It's been a long, a long time coming 
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will

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#change #lyrics #civil-rights #social-justice #determination #belief

Ooohhh yyeaaah aaww baby yeeeaah
I wish that I could stay, but staying here confuses me more
So I'll go cause there someone else who cares for me like you do
You are my friend and I don't wanna cross the line, It's so easy to make you mine
I keep you pushing you away cause you give me what I miss at home..

I'm goin' thru changes 
going through changes, and how do I let you go... let you go
My mind is goin' thru changes... 
going thru some changes yeah yeah
And I can't let you go

Please don't touch me there, temptation wants to rule me
I can't do what my body is calling out for, I'm so confused
You know what I like and you wanna give me all of you
And I think about it too but I keep goin' thru these changes
Cause there's so much that I miss at home

I'm goin' thru changes Oooooo How do I?
how do I let you go... 
I gotta get it together
My mind is goin' thru changes 
And I can't let you go

Aaaaaa I know what you want, I know what you want
Everything about us will change... gonna change
Everything I feel says here with you... I wanna stay here with you
I don't really know what to do... I don't know what to do
I can't get nothing at home... nothing
Every time I think about it I'm so confused... 
so confused

I'm goin' thru some changes...
I'm goin' thru changes 
how do I let you go no no no 
My mind is goin' thru changes 
some changes yeah yeah yeah
And I can't let you go

I'm goin' thru changes 
don't know what to do... don't know 
how do I let you go
My mind is goin' thru changes 
goin' thru some changes

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#change #lyrics #temptation #confusion #relationships 

Yo stop, stop, stop, stop..
At the end of 1974, when daddy dukes went raw
The chosen sperm to explore and reach the egg for sure
A child through the birth canal on the nine month trial
Released on this wild earth, my generation hit worst
Will my development arrested by the government
Young a Nigga's struggling, living life got me wondering
New shit I'm discovering, yo' son I can't sleep
Situation so deep, my Nigga's drowning in the streets
Another rapist I'll stalk, a younger murder is walked
They got shit locked in a fort, a buck fif' if you're tossed
Verbalizing hard times, finding' ways to recline
Dedicated to the rhyme brought your shades and your wine
I survived hard times prime time, as I rewind
My thoughts and reminisce sipping O.E. quarts
Rest in peace to my peeps who died up in the streets
Fuck Halloween treats cause ain't shit sweet

Change, my life has changed 
Change, change, and I will never be the same
Change, my life has changed
Change, change and I will never be the same

Well growing up on the Brooklyn streets
It was hard for Black T to make these motherfucking ends meet
The first store that closed up got stuck
and if you didn't gimme your cash
I'd put one in somebody's gut
I ran buck wild through these streets with this group of individuals
Committing crimes well performed like a ritual
Until one day my mom tried to send me up-state to job core
I didn't know what the fuck for
So I, pulled out my pals
And called up the Nigga Al
What's the deal son it's been a fucking long while
He said yo Black T, I had this dream about this cream
I'm going all out for mines by any fucking means
We grabbed our pen and pads
And wrote about this world gone mad
And how times was getting real bad
But what we need to do
Is connect with them other two
And make that dream you had come true

I'm out the front door
Don't wanna deal with this bullshit no more
What for? I'm ready to throw this heart on the floor
Back in the days, yo, Ty had it all
Women on call, sex and all
Summer, winter, spring, and the fall 
Then my moms broke out to get away from men why no doubt
Then I settled down and made one girl a spouse
Should of known, couldn't replace moms
My heart rang the alarm, situation was da bomb
I roamed the streets, started smoking weed
Drinking Heinee's tappin' heinee's
Writing words to rich beats
Became an everyday struggler
Stereotyped a hustler
Constant bother
Resided with my father frequently talked with my mother
Reactions crazy, revenge thoughts, maybe
Asking what am I doing here?
Someone come save me 
Cause I feel I got no purpose
debilitano surface
There's different type moves
With an attitude that's nervous
And nothing can help me maintain my mind frame
Now I'm doing shit I never did before

Change, my life has changed
Change, change and I will never be the same
Change, change the world has changed
Change, change and it will never be the same

Brought up on green and patch
You'll never have no ash
and everyday I find myself in the same old fashion
Saddened, my same fucking Pumas and Lees
Tore up at the knees
That would always squeeze
My buns, I have no funds
I'm young and dumb
Left school at three o' clock
To face an eviction
In tears as it appears my crib for years
Has just been rented to the landlord kids
No rhythm, cause my rep grows rather rash
Surpassed third class quick to stash, when the photo flash
In contrast, I was labeled as an outcast
Afraid to tell the cast
Cause chicks can tell me kiss they ass
Low self esteem but mom dukes kept me clean
Swayed from Spalding, Paydays and madman drinks
Chanetell my princess, she will live to be a queen
And as the moonbeam
Me and my team we'll be counting cream

Change, my life has changed 
Change, change and I will never be the same
Change, change the world has changed
Change, change and it will never be the same
Change, change you should make a change
Change, change and you must never be the same
Change, Evil Dee has changed
Change, change and he will never be the same
Change, beat minors change
Change, change and it will never be the same
Change, 
yes the world has changed
Change, change and it will never be the same
.... and it will never be the same .. 
don't stop.. stop .. stop.. hey use your head... 

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Instrumental
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcKIO-C8-uo  Live footage : 23-03-2007 : Budapest, Hungary
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#change #instrumental #dark-forces #shadows

small change got rained on with his own thirty-eight,
and nobody flinched down by the arcade
and the marquees weren't weeping, they went stark-raving mad,
and the cabbies were the only ones that really had it made
and his cold trousers were twisted, and the sirens high and shrill,
and crumpled in his fist was a five-dollar bill
all the naked mannequins with their Cheshire grins,
and the raconteurs and roustabouts said "Buddy, come on in, saying
'cause the dreams ain't broken down here now, they're walking with a limp
now that small change got rained on with his own thirty-eight"

and nobody flinched down by the arcade
and the burglar alarm's been disconnected,
and the newsmen start to rattle
and the cops are telling jokes about some whorehouse in Seattle
and the fire hydrants plead the Fifth Amendment
and the furniture is bargains galore
but the blood is by the jukebox on an old linoleum floor
and what a hot rain on Forty-Second Street,
so now the umbrellas ain't got a chance
and the newsboy's a lunatic with stains on his pants, 
'cause Small Change got rained on with his own thirty-eight

and you know that, no one's gone over to close his eyes
and there's a racing form in his pocket,
circled "Blue Boots" in the third
and the cashier at the clothing store wouldn't breathe a word
and the siren tears the night in half, someone lost his wallet
well, a surveillance of assailant, if that's what you want to call it
and all the whores well they smear on Revlon, 
yeah they all look like Jane Medolsas they hike up their skirts and fish for drug-store prophylactics
you know their mouths are cut just like razor blades and their eyes are like stilettos
and her radiator's steaming and her teeth are in a wreck, and nah,
she won't let you kiss her, but what the hell do you expect?
and the Gypsies are tragic so you want to buy perfume,
well, they'll bark you down like Carney's, sell you Christmas cards in June, but
small change got rained on with his own thirty-eight

and his headstone's a gumball machine, ain't gonna be 
no more chewing gum or baseball cards or overcoats or dreams
someone's hosing down the sidewalk, the cat's only in his teens, 
'cause small change got rained on with his own thirty-eight

you know a fistful of dollars can't change that,
and someone copped his watch fob, and someone got his ring
and the newsboy got his pork pie Stetson hat
and Oh the tuberculosis old men at the old town at the Nelson wheeze and cough
and someone will head south until this whole thing cools off, 
'cause small change got rained on with his own thirty-eight, 
small change got rained on with his own....

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#change #lyrics #destitution #dogeatdog #death

I'm not supposed to be scared of anything, but I don't know where I am 
I wish that I could move but I'm exhausted and nobody understands how I feel
I'm trying hard to breathe now but there's no air in my lungs 
There's no one here to talk to and the pain inside is making me numb 

I try to hold this under control 
They can't help me 'cause no one knows 

Now I'm going through changes, changes 
God, I feel so feel so frustrated lately 
When I get suffocated, save me 
Now I'm going through changes, changes 

I'm feeling weak and weary walking through this world alone 
Everything you say, every word of it, cuts me to the bone 
I've got something to say, but now I've got no where to turn 
It feels like I've been buried underneath the weight of the world 

I try to hold this, under control 
They can't help me 'cause no one knows 

Now I'm going through changes, changes 
God, I feel so feel so frustrated lately 
When I get suffocated, save me 
Now I'm going through changes, changes 

I'm running, shaking 
Bound and breaking 
I hope I make it through all these changes 

Now I'm going through changes, changes 
God, I feel so frustrated lately 
when I get suffocated, save me 
Now I'm falling apart, now I feel it 

and I'm going through changes, changes 
God, I feel so feel so frustrated lately 
and I get suffocated, save me 
but I'm going through changes, changes 

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#change #lyrics #frustration #anxiety #panic-atttack 

Teenage girl, much too young
Unprepared for what's to come
A baby changes everything

Not a ring on her hand
All her dreams and all her plans
A baby changes everything
A baby changes everything

The man she loves she's never touched
How will she keep his trust?
A baby changes everything
A baby changes everything

And she cries!
Ooh, she cries
Ooh, oh

She has to leave, go far away
Heaven knows she can't stay
A baby changes everything

She can feel, he's coming soon
There's no place, there's no room
A baby changes everything
A baby changes everything

And she cries!
And she cries!
Oh, she cries

Shepherds all gather 'round
Up above the star shines down
A baby changes everything

Choir of angels sing
Glory to the newborn King
A baby changes everything
A baby changes everything
Everything, everything, everything

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

My whole life has turned around
I was lost but now I'm found
A baby changes everything, yeah
A baby changes everything

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#change #lyrics #mary #jesus #christianity #faith

Whiskey woman don't you know that you are driving me insane
The liquor you give stems your will to live, gets right to my brain
Don't you know you're driving me insane,
You're tryin' to find your way through life
You're tryin' to get some new direction,
Another woman got her man
She won't find no new connection

Takes another drink or two, things look better when she's through

Takes another look around, you're not going anywhere
You've realized you're getting old and no one seems to care
You're tryin' to find your way again
You're tryin' to find some new...
Another woman's got her man
But she won't find a new...
Takes another drink or two, things look better when she's through

You've been fooling with some hot guy
I want to know why is it why
Get up get out you know you really blew it
I've had enough, I've had enough, good God pluck me

Once she was wonderful
Once she was fine
Once she was beautiful
Once she was mine...she was mine

Now change has come over her body, she doesn't see me anymore
Now change has come over her body, she doesn't see me anymore

Changes, changes, changes, changes
Victim of changes

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Everything changes, how do you know what to do? 
Well, all I can say is that it's all up to me and to you 
it's all up to you
Changes for me, changes for you, changes for us, so what shall we do? 
Changes for me, changes for you, changes for us, It’s all up to you 

Do it my way play by my rules 
Wanna come along then do what I do 
Life is passing you gotta keep up 
If you go too slow then you might get stuck 
Trying to change wanna do new things 
Wanna feel good get rid of the pains. 
Remove your chains stimulate the brain, 
Gain more momentum just like a train 
like a train, like a train, like a train, like a train....
Changes for me, changes for you, changes for us, so what shall we do?
Changes for me, changes for you, changes for us, it’s all up to you 

It's up to you where you wanna go 
Just do it now it's no time to grow 
Everything changes wanna be famous 
Change your life and I promise you'll make it 
make it, make it, make it, make it....

Oh Jay Lo it's all up to you 
everything keeps changing, don't let it get to you, everything keeps changing, well its all up to you
Oh Jay Lo!
everything keeps changing, changing for the better, for the better, 
everything keeps changing, lets do it together

everything changes How do you know what to do, what shall we do?
Well, all I can say is that it's all up to me and to you it's all up to you

Changes for me, changes for you, changes for us, so what shall we do, 
Changes for me, changes for you, changes for us, It’s all up to you 
It's all up to you, its all up to you

Oh Jay Lo! it's all up to you

Do it my way play by my rules 
Wanna come along then do what I do 
Life is passing you gotta keep up 
If you go too slow then you might get stuck
Trying to change wanna do new things 
Wanna feel good and get rid of the pains. 
Remove your chains stimulate your brain, 
Gain more momentum just like a train 
like a train, like a train, like a train, like a train....

Changes for me, changes for you, changes for us, so what shall we do, what shall we do?
Changes for me, changes for you, changes for us, it’s all up to you 

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