Lauryn Hill: If i ruled the world

Life i wonder....Will it take me under.... I don't know[Verse One: Nas]Imagine smoking weed in the streets without cops harassinImagine going to court with no trialLifestyle cruising blue behind my watersNo welfare supporters more conscious of the way we raise ourdaughtersDays are shorter, nights are colderFeeling like life is over, these snakes strike like a cobraThe world's hot my son got not evidentlyIt's elementary, they want us all gone eventuallyTrooping out of state for a plate knowledgeof coke was cooked without the garbage we'd all have the topdollarsImagine everybody flashin, fashionDesigner clothes, lacing your click up with diamond voguesYour people holdin dough, no paroleNo rubbers, go in raw imagine law with no undercoversJust some thoughts for the mindI take a glimpse into timewatch the blimp read "The World Is Mine"[Chorus: Lauryn Hill, Nas]If I ruled the worldImagine thatI'd free all my sons, I love em love em babyBlack diamonds and pearlsCould it be, if you could be mine, we'd both shineIf I ruled the worldStill livin for today, inthese last days and times[Verse Two: Nas]The way to be, paradise like relaxin black, latino andanglo-saxonArmani exchange the reinsCash, Lost Tribe of Shabazz, free at lastBrand new whips to crash then we laugh in the iller pathThe Villa house is for the crew, how we doTrees for breakfast, dime sexes and Benz stretchesSo many years of depression make me visionThe better livin, type of place to raise kids inOpen they eyes to the lies history's told foulBut I'm as wise as the old owl, plus the Gold ChildSeeing things like I was controlling, click rollinTrickin six digits on kicks and still holdinTrips to Paris, I civilized every savageGimme one shot I turn trife life to lavishPolitical prisonner set free, stress free No work release purple M3's and jet skis Feel the wind breeze in West IndiesI make Coretta Scott-King mayor the cities and reverse themes toWilliesIt sounds foul but every girl I meet to go downtownI'd open every cell in Attica send em to Africa[Chorus: Lauryn Hill, Nas]If I ruled the worldImagine thatI'd free all my sons, I love em love em babyBlack diamonds and pearlsCould it be, if you could be mine, we'd both shineIf I ruled the worldStill livin for today, inthese last days and timesAnd then we'll walk right up to the sunHand in handWe'll walk right up to the sunWe won't landWe'll walk right up to the sunHand in handWe'll walk right up to the sunWe won't land[Verse Three: Nas]You'd love to hear the story how the thugs live in worryDuck down in car seats, heat's mandatoryRunnin from Jake, gettin chased, hunger for papesThese are the breaks many mistakes go down out of stateWait, I had to let it marinate we carry weightTryin to get laced, flip the ace stack the safeMillionaire plan to keep the gat with the cop cameraMakin moves in Atlanta, back and forth scramblerCause you could have all the chips, be poor or richStill nobody want a nigga havin shitIf I ruled the world and everything in it, sky's the limitI push a Q-45 InfinitIt wouldn't be no such thing as jealousies or B FeloniesStrictly living longevity to the destinyI thought I'd never see but reality struckBetter find out before your time's out, what the fuck??[Chorus: Lauryn Hill, Nas]If I ruled the world Imagine thatI'd free all my sons, I love em em babyBlack diamonds and pearlsCould it be, if you could be mine, we'd both shineIf I ruled the worldStill livin for today, inthese last days and timesIf I ruled the world, if I ruled, if I ruled Imagine thatI'd free all my sons, if I ruled, if I ruledI love em love em babyBlack diamonds and pearls, black dimaonds Could it be, if you couldblack diamonds be mine, we'd both shineIf I ruled the worldStill livin for today, inthese last days and timesIf I ruled the world, if I ruledif I ruled, I'd free all my sonsblack diamonds, I love em love em babyBlack diamonds and pearls, if I ruledIf I ruled the worldIf I ruled the worldI love em love em baby!!