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

Life i wonder will it take me under?
I don't know

Imagine smoking weed in the
Street without cops harassing
Imagine going to court with no trial
Lifestyle, cruising blue Bahama 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 world's hot, my son got knocked
Evidently, it's elementary
They want us all gone eventually
Trooping outta state for a plate of knowledge
If coke was cooked without the garbage
We'd all have the top dollars
Imagine everybody flashing fashion
Designer clothes
Lacing ya clique up with diamond Roles
Your people holding 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"

If I ruled the world (Imagine that)
I'd free all my sons I love 'em, love 'em
Baby! Black diamonds and pearls
(Could it be, if you could be mine
We'd both shine?) if I ruled the world
(Still living for today
In these last days and times)

The way to be: Paradise life, relaxing
Black, Latino and Anglo-Saxon
Armani Exchange, the Range
Cash, Lost Tribe of Shabazz free at last
Brand new whips to crash
Then we laugh in a 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 living
Type of place to raise kids in
Open they eyes to the lies
History's told foul
But I'm as wise as the old owl
Plus the Gold Child
Seeing things like I was controlling
Clique rolling tricking six-digit's on kicks
And still holding
Trips to Paris, I'd civilize every savage
Give me one shot, I turn trife life to lavish
Political prisoners set free, stress free
No work release, purple M3's and jet skis
Feel the wind breeze in West Indies
I'd let Coretta Scott-King mayor the cities
And reverse fiends to Willies it sound foul
But every girl I meet'd go down-town
I'd open every cell in Attica
Send 'em to Africa!

If I ruled the world (Imagine that)
I'd free all my sons I love 'em, love 'em
Baby! Black diamonds and pearls
(Could it be, if you could be mine
We'd both shine?) if I ruled the world
(Still living for today
In these last days and times)

And then we'll walk right up to the sun
Hand in hand
We'll walk right up to the sun, we won't land
We'll walk right up to the sun, hand in hand
We'll walk right up to the sun, we won't land

You love to hear the story how
The thugs live in worry
Ducked down in car seats, heat's mandatory
Running from Jake, getting chased
Hunger for papes these are the breaks
Many mistakes go down outta state
Wait! I had to let it marinate
We carry weight
Trying to get laced, flip the ace
Stack the safe
Millionaire plan to keep the gat
With the cocked hammer
Making moves in Atlanta
Back-and-forth scrambler
‘Cause you could have all the chips
Be poor or rich
Still, nobody want a nigga having shit!
If I ruled the world and everything in it
Sky's the limit i push a Q-45 Infinit (i)
It wouldn't be no such thing as jealousies
Or B Felony
Strictly living longevity to the destiny
I thought I'd never see, but reality struck
Better find out before your time's out
What the fuck?!

If I ruled the world (Imagine that)
I'd free all my sons I love 'em, love 'em
Baby! Black diamonds and pearls
(Could it be, if you could be mine
We'd both shine?) if I ruled the world
(Still living for today
In these last days and times)
If I ruled the world, if I ruled, if I ruled
(Imagine that)
I'd free all my sons, if I ruled, if I ruled
I love 'em, love 'em, baby!
Black diamonds and pearls, black diamonds
Black diamonds
(Could it be, if you could be mine
We'd 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, I'd 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!