Lyrics The Change Up - Alphabet Rockers

I wish the prison frame
Was built to learning about people's internal change
And know what happening in their brains
They could be learning from what they did
Or trying to get back to their family at the crib
As soon as they step on the court
They try to take a shot jury pushes them on the floor
They think the perpetrator's all hate at the core
Because of their biases changes get ignored
If you throw us in the cell, lock it, turn off the lights
Mistakes are the spark that make our ideas bright
So even if you turn off the lights
Our community will guide us through the night
We know we're left with what's right
Why when you do something wrong it goes on to your record
It's carrying through your life and not striving to make you better
We need to be clever
Our top leaders are failing us
We're exercising a system where our wrongs are trailing us

Who is to win?
Who is to lose?
Who takes the L?
Who sees it through?
Who gets to change?
Who gets to choose? Yea!
Don't get caught up in the moment
It follows you

Systems stopping caterpillars from floating like butterflies
Stopping them from soaring
Before they even get to try
When a bee stings protect itself by any means necessary
Be a bee - Protect community like kingdom's canterbury
For equity we gotta start embracing change
The way the systems working we can't let it stay the same
Its complex to try to beat the prison complex
To restore the justice it's an uncomfortable process
But to express is progress - don't stress
Because when were united we can never become pressed
People confess
We hold them accountable
And still the years that have been lost is uncountable

Who is to win?
Who is to lose?
Who takes the L?
Who sees it through?
Who gets to change?
Who gets to choose?
Won't get caught up in the moment
I promise you

When you take an L
Do you take a loss?
Do you take the lesson?
Do you pay the cost?
Do you feel shame?
Or do you feel the sham?
The plot in the shadow
The scheme in the plan
Can you see the L
As more than a loss?
Can it be a lesson
Still pay the cost?
Can you shed the shame
Expose the Sham?
Reverse the scheme
Divert the plan
Divert the plan
Reverse the scheme
Expose the Sham
Change up the theme
Divert the plan
Reverse the scheme
Expose the Sham
Change up the theme
The Change Up
The Change Up