Everything changes

All around the world I know

Yes I know

Everything changes

I guess it's how it goes I'm told

So I'm told

I remember being only a kid

The world was ours and we were ready to live

Pack our bags and go to school again

So we could skip class at the park with our friends

Ooh, time changes everything

We make new friends, we make new enemies

And I don't need your sympathy or empathy

I'm doing what I can to tell the industry you'll mention me

Yeah, now they're changing up the landscape

Build a subdivision that the government commands at

Twenty little houses, two feet apart

And down the street they're putting up a new Walmart

Family is born and family dies

And we just want a piece of the American pie

Oh, all we can do is try

So I'm doing all I can just to build for you and I

Whoa, to build for you and I

Tryna, tryna, tryna, tryna build for you and I

Whoa, to build for you and I

Tryna, tryna, tryna build for you and I

Everything changes

All around the world I know

Yes I know

Everything changes

I guess it's how it goes I'm told

So I'm told

You can try to come and take my land

But remember this was built with my family's hands

Generations and patience, smiles on their faces

Would be upside down if they knew all your plans

Corporate greed, they've been taking control

Saw an opportunity to make a green and said go

Tearing up the territory for dollar bills and dough

When all we're trying to do is plant a seed and say grow

I try to look at it as a whole

Then I'm packing another bowl

Because I'm stressing less when my finger's on a roll

Shift my negative perspective into something reflective

And make a song about it, maybe that'll be effective

I'm never second guessing, it's my outlet, don't protect it

With a surge of emerge between honesty and assessment

I may not be excited and at first I was offended

But a lot of things have changed and I've learned to accept it