If I Ruled The World Lyrics

If I Ruled The World lyrics

Intro: Nas (Lauryn Hill singing in the background)

Life..... I
wonder....
Will it take me under.... I don't know

Verse One:
Nas

Imagine smoking weed in the streets without cops harassin
Imagine
going to court with no trial
Lifestyle cruising blue behind my 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 not evidently
It's elementary,
they want us all gone eventually
Trooping out of state for a plate
knowledge
of coke was cooked without the garbage we'd all have the top
dollars
Imagine everybody flashin, fashion
Designer clothes, lacing your
click up with diamond vogues
Your people holdin 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"

Chorus: Lauryn Hill, Nas

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 livin for today, in
these last days and times

Verse Two:
Nas

The way to be, paradise like relaxin black, latino and
anglo-saxon
Armani exchange the reins
Cash, Lost Tribe of Shabazz, free
at last
Brand new whips to crash then we laugh in the 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
livin, 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, click rollin
Trickin six digits on kicks and
still holdin
Trips to Paris, I civilized every savage
Gimme one shot I
turn trife life to lavish
Political prisonner set free, stress free
No
work release purple M3's and jet skis
Feel the wind breeze in West
Indies
I make Coretta Scott-King mayor the cities and reverse themes to
Willies
It sounds foul but every girl I meet to go downtown
I'd open
every cell in Attica send em to Africa

Chorus: Lauryn Hill,
Nas

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 livin 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

Verse Three: Nas

You'd love to hear the story how the thugs
live in worry
Duck down in car seats, heat's mandatory
Runnin from Jake,
gettin chased, hunger for papes
These are the breaks many mistakes go down
out of state
Wait, I had to let it marinate we carry weight
Tryin to get
laced, flip the ace stack the safe
Millionaire plan to keep the gat with the
cop camera
Makin moves in Atlanta, back and forth scrambler
Cause you
could have all the chips, be poor or rich
Still nobody want a nigga havin
shit
If I ruled the world and everything in it, sky's the limit
I push a
Q-45 Infinit
It wouldn't be no such thing as jealousies or B
Felonies
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???

Chorus: Lauryn Hill, Nas

If I ruled the world Imagine
that
I'd free all my sons, I love em em baby
Black diamonds and pearls
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 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
dimaonds Could it be, if you could
black diamonds 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!!