Lyrics:

Changing, you can?t blame me,
Stuck in his ways, walking with his chest out,
Knows what he ain?t, but don?t know what to be about,
He understands life would be better
That he could move my own tense
And be a go get her.

Chorus:
(Manchild), in a promised land,
(And I) I can?t hold his hand,
(To make him see) and make him comprehend
That it?s all he is, for the taking!

..and ex-cons, ?
?use ?em to believe that you have a confident?.
Get it together, gotta get right,
How you expect the things to change
When you ain?t changing your life?
Blame it on your team, but ?
Now follow through a hustle ?
You ..working out to get your waiter,
But they?d be pausing on the blocks, so thing of?
He don?t see it, but he?s aware of the world,
Comprehensive of the scope and the oppression in it.
But he don?t get it that those boys are his fans,
Though the run guns blaze ?em when this hit is the?,
I?m in, children, pissing on the Promise Land,
The only seeds planted in the womb of a woman,
I know you need your man to have your back,
But you know, and I know they also hold your back hand at that.

Chorus:
(Manchild), in a promised land,
(And I) I can?t hold his hand,
(To make him see) and make him comprehend
That it?s all he is, for the taking!
And I can?t change him, I can?t change him,
No I can?t blame him, no I can?t blame him,
I can?t blame him!

I know where he?s from
And I how hard I is to let go of what you know
To change anything, he?s in the chain of fools!
To change anything, he?s in the chain of fools, yeah!