There's nothing more refreshing (that cool refreshing drink)
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Than a cool, crisp, clean glass of water
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On a warm summer's day (That cool refreshing drink)
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Try it with your friends
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New World Water make the tide rise high
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Come inland and make your house go "Bye" (My house!)
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Fools done upset the Old Man River
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Made him carry slave ships and fed him dead nigga
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Now his belly full and he about to flood somethin
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So I'ma throw a rope that ain't tied to nothin
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til your crew use the H2 in wise amounts since
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it's the New World Water; and every drop counts
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You can laugh and take it as a joke if you wanna
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But it don't rain for four weeks some summers
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And it's about to get real wild in the half
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You be buying Evian just to take a fuckin bath
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Heads is acting wild, sippin poor, puffin dank
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Competin with the next man for higher playin rank
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See I ain't got time try to be Big Hank,
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Fuck a bank; I need a twenty-year water tank
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Cause while these knuckleheads is out here sweatin they goods
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The sun is sitting in the treetops burnin the woods
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And as the flames from the blaze get higher and higher
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They say, "Don't drink the water! We need it for the fire!"
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New York is drinkin it (New World Water)
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Now all of California is drinkin it (New World Water)
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Way up north and down south is drinkin it (New World Water)
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Used to have minerals and zinc in it (New World Water)
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Now they say it got lead and stink in it (New World Water)
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Fluorocarbons and monoxide
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Push the water table lopside
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Used to be free now it cost you a fee
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Cause oil tankers spill they load as they roam cross the sea
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Man, you gotta cook with it, bathe and clean with it (That's right)
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When it's hot, summertime you fiend for it (Let em know)
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You gotta put it in the iron you steamin with (That's right)
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It's what they dress wounds and treat diseases with (Shout it out)
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The rich and poor, black and white got need for it (That's right)
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And everybody in the world can agree with this (Let em know)
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Consumption promotes health and easiness (That's right)
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Go too long without it on this earth and you leavin it (Shout it out)
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Americans wastin it on some leisure shit (Say word?)
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And other nations be desperately seekin it (Let em know)
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Bacteria washing up on they beaches (Say word?)
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Don't drink the water, son they can't wash they feet with it (Let em know)
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Young babies in perpetual neediness (Say word?)
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Epidemics hopppin up off the petri dish (Let em know)
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Control centers try to play it all secretive (Say word?)
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To avoid public panic and freakiness (Let em know)
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There are places where TB is common as TV
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Cause foreign-based companies go and get greedy
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The type of cats who pollute the whole shore line
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Have it purified, sell it for a dollar twenty-five
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Now the world is drinkin it
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Your moms, wife, and baby girl is drinkin it
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Up north and down south is drinkin it
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You should just have to go to your sink for it
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The cash registers is goin "cha-chink!" for it
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Fluorocarbons and monoxide
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Got the fish lookin cockeyed
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Used to be free now it cost you a fee
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Cause it's all about gettin that cash (Money)
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Said it's all about gettin that cash (Money) (x9)
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Johny cash (Money)
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Rosanne Cash (Money)
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Give me cash (Money)
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Cold cash (Money)
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(Repeat to fade)
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Cash rules everything around me,
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Move!
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Water
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Mos Def |