[Intro: Nas (Lauryn Hill singing in the background)] Life..... I wonder.... Will it take me under.... I dont know [Verse One: Nas] Imagine smoking weed in the streets without cops harassin Imagine going to court with no trial Lifestyle cruising blue behind my waters No welfare supporters more conscious of the way we raise our daughters Days are shorter, nights are colder Feeling like life is over, these snakes strike like a cobra The worlds hot my son got not evidently Its elementary, they want us all gone eventually Trooping out of state for a plate knowledge of coke was cooked without the garbage wed all have the top dollars Imagine everybody flashin, fashion Designer clothes, lacing your click up with diamond vogues Your people holdin dough, no parole No rubbers, go in raw imagine law with no undercovers Just some thoughts for the mind I take a glimpse into time watch the blimp read "The World Is Mine" [Chorus: Lauryn Hill, Nas] If I ruled the world Imagine that Id free all my sons, I love em love em baby Black diamonds and pearls Could it be, if you could be mine, wed both shine If I ruled the world Still livin for today, in these last days and times [Verse Two: Nas] The way to be, paradise like relaxin black, latino and anglo-saxon Armani exchange the reins Cash, Lost Tribe of Shabazz, free at last Brand new whips to crash then we laugh in the iller path The Villa house is for the crew, how we do Trees for breakfast, dime sexes and Benz stretches So many years of depression make me vision The better livin, type of place to raise kids in Open they eyes to the lies historys told foul But Im as wise as the old owl, plus the Gold Child Seeing things like I was controlling, click rollin Trickin six digits on kicks and still holdin Trips to Paris, I civilized every savage Gimme one shot I turn trife life to lavish Political prisonner set free, stress free No work release purple M3s and jet skis Feel the wind breeze in West Indies I make Coretta Scott-King mayor the cities and reverse themes to Willies It sounds foul but every girl I meet to go downtown Id open every cell in Attica send em to Africa [Chorus: Lauryn Hill, Nas] If I ruled the world Imagine that Id free all my sons, I love em love em baby Black diamonds and pearls Could it be, if you could be mine, wed both shine If I ruled the world Still livin for today, in these last days and times And then well walk right up to the sun Hand in hand Well walk right up to the sun We wont land Well walk right up to the sun Hand in hand Well walk right up to the sun We wont land [Verse Three: Nas] Youd love to hear the story how the thugs live in worry Duck down in car seats, heats mandatory Runnin from Jake, gettin chased, hunger for papes These are the breaks many mistakes go down out of state Wait, I had to let it marinate we carry weight Tryin to get laced, flip the ace stack the safe Millionaire plan to keep the gat with the cop camera Makin moves in Atlanta, back and forth scrambler Cause you could have all the chips, be poor or rich Still nobody want a nigga havin shit If I ruled the world and everything in it, skys the limit I push a Q-45 Infinit It wouldnt be no such thing as jealousies or B Felonies Strictly living longevity to the destiny I thought Id never see but reality struck Better find out before your times out, what the fuck?? [Chorus: Lauryn Hill, Nas] If I ruled the world Imagine that Id free all my sons, I love em em baby Black diamonds and pearls Could it be, if you could be mine, wed both shine If I ruled the world Still livin for today, in these last days and times If I ruled the world, if I ruled, if I ruled Imagine that Id free all my sons, if I ruled, if I ruled I love em love em baby Black diamonds and pearls, black dimaonds Could it be, if you could black diamonds be mine, wed both shine If I ruled the world Still livin for today, in these last days and times If I ruled the world, if I ruled if I ruled, Id free all my sons black diamonds, I love em love em baby Black diamonds and pearls, if I ruled If I ruled the world If I ruled the world I love em love em baby!!
Artist: Nas Lauryn Hill
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