The scene is set
everybody's in place
Two chairs filled for every
five gone to waste Pantsuit girl
gives me a nasty gaze
She says play on your own time
Walk to the bandstand blow
my horn
Nobody knows what we're
really here for
Let's take it out hard till
they show us the door
It's us against them tonight
Play the changes
Make the changes the changes
Take it out hard
till they show us the door
<Interluding>
A girl with a nose ring said
to me She said where's
the joy in your delivery
I said maybe there's not
supposed to be
Any real joy at all here
She sat there with that
plaster smile
As we sit jiving
but in a little while
Holding her hair
she joined the single file
And walked on down the hall
Play the changes
Make the changes the changes
Us against them tonight
<Interluding>
The owner says he thinks we
need some work
There is a place for you
got some roadwork
Laying asphalt on the interstate
Nobody cares and why should they
<Interluding>
A white girl in a dashiki says
you're all the rage
My friends and I think you're
quite the sage
Wear a kofu and a finger guage
To see which way
the wind blows today
Play the changes
Make the changes the changes
To see which way
the wind blows today
Old friend Dave
with the silver spoon
Says why don't you play those
good old tunes
Give it up now you could fill
the room
I say there's nothing like a
good Trane tune
Changes
These things called changes
Where do we go from here?
my niggas
just bust yo' tech for me
Everybody from every hood
bang yo' head
'til you break yo' motherfuckin
neck for me!
Just let me give
you real street shit
to rap in yo' shit with
We clap yo' seat
we whyle this heat
Keep bouncin up
and down these streets
So nod yo' head and
Break yo' neck nigga!
Break yo' neck nigga!
Break yo' neck nigga!
Bang yo' head until you start to
Break yo' neck nigga!
Break yo' neck nigga!
Break yo' neck nigga!
Break yo' neck!