[Announcer]

That was a very beautiful song
Our next guest will be a poetry or spoken word reading
From a Mr. Zane Smith. Let’s give him a round of applause
(Crowd applause)

[Verse 1]

Zane Smith
What’s a friend?
What’s a foe?
What’s a woman?
What’s a ho?
Thin line just in case you didn’t know
Up and down
Round and round just like Mary goes (Merry-Go’s)
How you criticize somebody stuff if you ain’t got your own?
Some people treat you wrong
Ill intentions all along
They’ll take a shot one sentence and ask a favor in the next
That’s how to lose respect
I don’t tolerate the disrespect
You see the brain and mouth connect
If you took the time to think
Then you might never regret
You took the first shot so I’ll be coming for your neck
Honestly that’s what you get
Stepping to me incorrect
Zane Smith don’t believe in forty-fives or a tech
Click –clack
Yeah I hear the chit-chat
But it’s just a bunch of noise
I like silence
I want peace, I don’t care about no violence
Me, myself, and I
We can always solve our problems
These dudes I hang with, they cool
But really, they don’t know me
Question mark beside everyone I call my homie
Sometimes I get lonely
But I don’t mind being alone
Chillin in my home
Living funky fresh
No cologne
You can say I’m ducked off
But I be in the zone
Watch the company I keep
Who I wanna be?
Hold the staff? Or be the sheep?
These people simple minded while my conscious too deep
Having visions in my sleep
You know it’s bad when ya dreams get corrupted
They used to be lovely
Now they looking ugly
Told em’ the the world
So they popping all the bubblies
Some people don’t care about me
I told them my dreams
And they doubt me
I feel like flipping birds
But instead I wrote these words
Nouns, adjectives, and verbs
It’s just that sometimes I’m too kind to speak what’s on my mind
So I do it though these rhymes
I keep it like a diary
Because daily life inspires me
And it’s been telling me to move on
Cause I’ve been stationary for too long

[Hook ]
I need change, change, change
Cause things can’t stay the same
Things can’t stay the same

[Verse 2]

One day I looked in my own eyes and realized
I’m everything that I love and I despise about my parents
But this is my skin
So I wear it
I’m aware of imperfections
Each experience is a lesson
Push me in the right direction
I often question where I’m headed
Question how I’m living
As of late I been drifting
Moving on intuition
I been shifting my positions on the couch
Living in my parent’s house
See me and my parents don’t get along
So it’s no longer a happy home
Boy you think you grown
Need to gone on and be off on your own
Too many grown folks can’t live all up in one house
Know what I’m talking bout?
See we share different views
They wanna watch the news
Every time I return from school they just treat me like a child
Captive animals can’t survive in the wild
But while I was gone on my own I had grown
Headed back home
Some things never change
In their eyes imam stay the same
Nah that’s not man
That’s just Lil Zane
Without making progress we just stay the same
I guess it’s bout time for a change
[Hook]

I need change, change, change
Cause things can’t stay the same
Things can’t stay the same