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

[00:00.00] 作词 : Nas/Kurt Walker/J. Olivier/Samuel Barnes [00:01.00] 作曲 : Nas/Kurt Walker/J. Olivier/Samuel Barnes [00:12.24]Life..... I wonder.... [00:15.65]Will it take me under.... I don't know [00:20.38]Imagine smoking weed in the streets without cops harassin [00:23.36]Imagine going to court with no trial [00:25.81]Lifestyle cruising blue behind my waters [00:27.93]No welfare supporters more conscious of the way we raise our daughters [00:30.89]Days are shorter, nights are colder [00:32.90]Feeling like life is over, these snakes strike like a cobra [00:36.06]The world's hot my son got knocked evidentaly [00:38.69]It's elementary, they want us all gone eventually [00:41.21]Trooping out of state for a plate knowledge [00:43.69]of coke was cooked without the garbage we'd all have the top dollars [00:46.38]Imagine everybody flashing, fashion [00:48.96]Designer clothes, lacing your click up with diamond vogues [00:51.44]Your people holding dough, no parole [00:53.44]No rubbers, go in raw imagine law with no undercovers [00:56.78]Just some thoughts for the mind [00:58.56]I take a glimpse into time [01:00.03]watch the blimp read "The World Is Mine" [01:01.57]If I ruled the world [01:03.55]Imagine that [01:06.40]I'd free all my sons, I love em love em baby [01:11.92]Black diamonds and pearls [01:14.70]Could it be, if you could [01:15.86]be mine, we'd both shine [01:16.48]If I ruled the world [01:19.31]Still living for today, in [01:20.00]these last days and times [01:22.00]The way to be, paradise like relaxing black, latino and anglo-saxon [01:23.94]Armani exchange the reins [01:27.37]Cash, Lost Tribe of Shabazz, free at last [01:29.78]Brand new whips to crash then we laugh in the iller path [01:32.51]The Villa house is for the crew, how we do [01:34.87]Trees for breakfast, dime b*****s and Benz stretche [01:38.05]So many years of depression make me vision [01:40.04]The better living, type of place to raise kids in [01:42.47]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 [01:47.74]Seeing things like I was controlling, click rolling [01:50.17]Tricking six digits on kicks and still holding [01:52.78]Trips to Paris, I civilized every savage [01:55.32]Gimme one shot I turn trife life to lavish [01:57.88]Political prisoner set free, stress free [02:00.44]No work release purple M3's and jet skis [02:03.00]Feel the wind breeze in West Indies [02:04.34]I make Coretta Scott-King mayor the cities and reverse themes to Willies [02:08.49]It sounds foul but every girl I meet to go downtown [02:10.60]I'd open every cell in Attica send em to Africa [02:13.19]If I ruled the world [02:15.55]Imagine that [02:18.14]I'd free all my sons, I love em love em baby [02:23.34]Black diamonds and pearls [02:25.98]Could it be, if you could [02:27.08]be mine, we'd both shine [02:28.48]If I ruled the world [02:30.34]Still living for today, in [02:31.73]these last days and times [02:33.10]And then we'll walk right up to the sun [02:36.21]Hand in hand [02:38.65]We'll walk right up to the sun [02:41.29]We won't land [02:43.86]We'll walk right up to the sun [02:46.40]Hand in hand [02:48.84]We'll walk right up to the sun [02:51.50]We won't land [02:53.58]You'd love to hear the story how the thugs live in worry [02:56.91]Duck down in car seats, heat's mandatory [02:59.15]Running from Jake, gettin chased, hunger for papes [03:01.68]These are the breaks many mistakes go down out of state [03:04.31]Wait, I had to let it marinate we carry weight [03:07.07]Trying to get laced, flip the ace stack the safe [03:09.37]Millionaire plan to keep the gat with the cop camera [03:12.16]Making moves in Atlanta, back and forth scrambler [03:14.84]Cause you could have all the chips, be poor or rich [03:17.97]Still nobody want a nigga having shi [03:19.63]If I ruled the world and everything in it, sky's the limit [03:22.48]I push a Q-45 Infinit [03:24.77]It wouldn't be no such thing as jealousies or B Felonies [03:27.79]Strictly living longevity to the destiny [03:29.95]I thought I'd never see but reality struck [03:32.34]Better find out before your time's out, what the ****? [03:35.02]If I ruled the world [03:37.35]Imagine that [03:39.85]I'd free all my sons, I love em em baby [03:45.11]Black diamonds and pearls [03:47.67]Could it be, if you could [03:48.93]be mine, we'd both shine [03:50.23]If I ruled the world [03:52.12]Still living for today, in [03:53.79]these last days and times [03:55.35]If I ruled the world, if I ruled, if I ruled [03:58.34]Imagine that [04:00.25]I'd free all my sons, if I ruled, if I ruled [04:03.62]I love em love em baby [04:05.61]Black diamonds and pearls, black diamonds [04:08.19]Could it be, if you could [04:09.32]black diamonds [04:10.39]be mine, we'd both shine [04:11.51]If I ruled the world [04:12.63]Still living for today, in [04:14.09]these last days and times [04:15.65]If I ruled the world, if I ruled [04:20.71]if I ruled, I'd free all my sons [04:23.46]black diamonds, I love em love em baby [04:25.93]Black diamonds and pearls, if I ruled [04:30.29]If I ruled the world [04:36.22]If I ruled the world [04:38.89]I love em love em baby!!