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Intro: Nas (Lauryn Hill singing in the background)
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Life..... I wonder....
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Will it take me under.... I don't know
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Verse One: Nas
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Imagine smoking weed in the streets without cops harassin
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Imagine going to court with no trial
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Lifestyle cruising blue behind my waters
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No welfare supporters more conscious of the way we raise our daughters
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Days are shorter, nights are colder
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Feeling like life is over, these snakes strike like a cobra
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The world's hot my son got not evidently
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It's elementary, they want us all gone eventually
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Trooping out of state for a plate knowledge
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of coke was cooked without the garbage we'd all have the top dollars
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Imagine everybody flashin, fashion
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Designer clothes, lacing your click up with diamond vogues
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Your people holdin dough, no parole
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No rubbers, go in raw imagine law with no undercovers
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Just some thoughts for the mind
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I take a glimpse into time
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watch the blimp read "The World Is Mine"
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Chorus: Lauryn Hill, Nas
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If I ruled the world Imagine that
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I'd free all my sons, I love em love em baby
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Black diamonds and pearls Could it be, if you could
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be mine, we'd both shine
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If I ruled the world Still livin for today, in
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these last days and times
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Verse Two: Nas
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The way to be, paradise like relaxin black, latino and anglo-saxon
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Armani exchange the reins
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Cash, Lost Tribe of Shabazz, free at last
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Brand new whips to crash then we laugh in the iller path
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The Villa house is for the crew, how we do
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Trees for breakfast, dime sexes and Benz stretches
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So many years of depression make me vision
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The better livin, type of place to raise kids in
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Open they eyes to the lies history's told foul
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But I'm as wise as the old owl, plus the Gold Child
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Seeing things like I was controlling, click rollin
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Trickin six digits on kicks and still holdin
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Trips to Paris, I civilized every savage
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Gimme one shot I turn trife life to lavish
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Political prisonner set free, stress free
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No work release purple M3's and jet skis
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Feel the wind breeze in West Indies
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I make Coretta Scott-King mayor the cities and reverse themes to Willies
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It sounds foul but every girl I meet to go downtown
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I'd open every cell in Attica send em to Africa
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Chorus: Lauryn Hill, Nas
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If I ruled the world Imagine that
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I'd free all my sons, I love em love em baby
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Black diamonds and pearls Could it be, if you could
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be mine, we'd both shine
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If I ruled the world Still livin for today, in
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these last days and times
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And then we'll walk right up to the sun
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Hand in hand
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We'll walk right up to the sun
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We won't land
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We'll walk right up to the sun
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Hand in hand
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We'll walk right up to the sun
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We won't land
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Verse Three: Nas
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You'd love to hear the story how the thugs live in worry
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Duck down in car seats, heat's mandatory
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Runnin from Jake, gettin chased, hunger for papes
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These are the breaks many mistakes go down out of state
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Wait, I had to let it marinate we carry weight
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Tryin to get laced, flip the ace stack the safe
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Millionaire plan to keep the gat with the cop camera
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Makin moves in Atlanta, back and forth scrambler
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Cause you could have all the chips, be poor or rich
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Still nobody want a nigga havin shit
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If I ruled the world and everything in it, sky's the limit
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I push a Q-45 Infinit
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It wouldn't be no such thing as jealousies or B Felonies
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Strictly living longevity to the destiny
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I thought I'd never see but reality struck
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Better find out before your time's out, what the fuck???
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Chorus: Lauryn Hill, Nas
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If I ruled the world Imagine that
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I'd free all my sons, I love em em baby
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Black diamonds and pearls Could it be, if you could
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be mine, we'd both shine
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If I ruled the world Still livin for today, in
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these last days and times
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If I ruled the world, if I ruled, if I ruled Imagine that
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I'd free all my sons, if I ruled, if I ruled
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I love em love em baby
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Black diamonds and pearls, black dimaonds Could it be, if you could
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black diamonds be mine, we'd both shine
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If I ruled the world Still livin for today, in
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these last days and times
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If I ruled the world, if I ruled
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if I ruled, I'd free all my sons
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black diamonds, I love em love em baby
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Black diamonds and pearls, if I ruled
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If I ruled the world
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If I ruled the world
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I love em love em baby!!
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If I Ruled the World
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| Lauryn Hill |
