Nas, Lauryn Hill - If I Ruled the World (Imagine That)(2007)

[00:11.27] Life
[00:13.72] I wonder
[00:15.53] Will it take me under?
[00:18.22] I don't know
[00:20.71] Imagine smoking weed in the streets without cops harassin'
[00:23.39] Imagine going to court with no trial
[00:25.61] Lifestyle cruising blue behind my waters
[00:27.83] No welfare supporters more conscious of the way we raise our daughters
[00:30.87] Days are shorter, nights are colder
[00:32.95] Feeling like life is over, these snakes strike like a cobra
[00:36.02] The world's hot my son got not evidently
[00:38.52] It's elementary, they want us all gone eventually
[00:41.28] Trooping out of state for a plate, knowledge
[00:43.49] If coke was cooked without the garbage we'd all have the top dollars
[00:46.40] Imagine everybody flashin', fashion
[00:48.73] Designer clothes, lacin' your click up with diamond Roles
[00:51.66] Your people holdin' dough, no parole
[00:53.66] No rubbers, go in raw, imagine law with no undercovers
[00:56.79] Just some thoughts for the mind
[00:58.42] I take a glimpse into time
[00:59.88] Watch the blimp read "The World Is Mine"
[01:01.48] If I ruled the world
[01:04.16] (Imagine that)
[01:06.03] I'd free all my sons (I love 'em, love 'em baby)
[01:11.73] Black diamonds and pearls
[01:14.34] (Could it be, if you could be mine, we'd both shine?)
[01:16.77] If I ruled the world
[01:18.95] (Still livin' for today, in these last days and times)
[01:21.69] The way to be, paradise like relaxin' Black, Latino and Anglo-saxon
[01:25.48] Armani exchange, the Range
[01:27.13] Cash, Lost Tribe of Shabazz, free at last
[01:29.76] Brand new whips to crash then we laugh in the iller path
[01:32.50] The Villa house is for the crew, how we do
[01:34.77] Trees for breakfast, dime sexes and Benz stretches
[01:37.68] So many years of depression make me vision
[01:39.91] The better livin', type of place to raise kids in
[01:42.67] Open they eyes to the lies history's told, foul
[01:45.10] But I'm as wise as the old owl, plus the Gold Child
[01:47.65] Seein' things like I was controllin', click rollin'
[01:50.14] Trickin' six digits on kicks and still holdin'
[01:52.55] Trips to Paris, I civilized every savage
[01:55.27] Gimme one shot, I turn trife life to lavish
[01:57.67] Political prisonner set free, stress free
[02:00.24] No work release purple M3's and jet skis
[02:02.97] Feel the wind breeze in West Indies
[02:04.57] I make Coretta Scott-King mayor the cities
[02:06.58] And reverse fiends to Willies
[02:08.13] It sounds foul, but every girl I meet'd go down-town
[02:10.53] I'd open every cell in Attica send 'em to Africa
[02:13.48] If I ruled the world
[02:15.66] (Imagine that)
[02:17.62] I'd free all my sons (I love 'em, love 'em baby)
[02:23.37] Black diamonds and pearls
[02:25.62] (Could it be, if you could be mine, we'd both shine?)
[02:28.36] If I ruled the world
[02:30.41] (Still livin' for today, in these last days and times)
[02:32.87] And then we'll walk right up to the sun
[02:36.14] Hand in hand
[02:38.47] We'll walk right up to the sun
[02:41.36] We won't land
[02:43.11] We'll walk right up to the sun
[02:46.49] Hand in hand
[02:48.23] We'll walk right up to the sun
[02:51.42] We won't land
[02:53.77] You'd love to hear the story how the thugs live in worry
[02:56.72] Duck down in car seats, heat's mandatory
[02:58.83] Runnin' from Jake, gettin' chased, hunger for papes
[03:01.44] These are the breaks many mistakes go down out of state
[03:04.33] Wait, I had to let it marinate we carry weight
[03:06.99] Tryin' to get laced, flip the ace stack the safe
[03:09.59] Millionaire plan to keep the gat with the cop camera
[03:12.09] Makin' moves in Atlanta, back and forth scrambler
[03:14.86] 'Cause you could have all the chips, be poor or rich
[03:17.46] Still nobody want a nigga havin' shit
[03:19.53] If I ruled the world and everything in it, sky's the limit
[03:22.74] I push a Q-45 Infinit
[03:24.74] It wouldn't be no such thing as jealousies or B Felonies
[03:27.42] Strictly livin' longevity to the destiny
[03:29.87] I thought I'd never see but reality struck
[03:32.18] Better find out before your time's out, what the fuck?
[03:35.30] If I ruled the world
[03:37.24] (Imagine that)
[03:38.80] I'd free all my sons (I love 'em, love 'em baby)
[03:44.77] Black diamonds and pearls
[03:47.36] (Could it be, if you could be mine, we'd both shine?)
[03:49.87] If I ruled the world
[03:52.17] (Still livin' for today, in these last days and times)
[03:55.03] If I ruled the world (If I ruled, if I ruled)
[03:57.90] Imagine that
[03:59.93] I'd free all my sons (If I ruled, if I ruled)
[04:03.20] (I love 'em, love 'em baby)
[04:05.52] Black diamonds and pearls, black dimaonds
[04:08.33] (Could it be, if you could be mine, we'd both shine?)
[04:10.44] If I ruled the world
[04:12.44] (Still livin' for today, in these last days and times)
[04:15.61] If I ruled the world (If I ruled, if I ruled)
[04:20.16] I'd free all my sons (I love 'em, love 'em baby)
[04:25.68] Black diamonds and pearls (If I ruled)
[04:29.96] If I ruled the world
[04:35.79] If I ruled the world
[04:38.57] I love 'em, love 'em baby
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