If I Ruled the World (Imagine That) (feat. Lauryn Hill)

[00:11.34] Life, I wonder
[00:15.04] Will it take me under?
[00:17.12] I don't know
[00:20.18] Imagine smoking weed in the streets without cops harassing
[00:22.98] Imagine going to court with no trial
[00:25.40] Lifestyle cruising blue behind my waters
[00:27.54] No welfare supporters
[00:29.00] More conscious of the way we raise our daughters
[00:30.57] Days are shorter, nights are colder
[00:32.67] Feeling like life is over, these snakes strike like a cobra
[00:35.87] The world's hot, my son got knocked evidently
[00:38.37] It's elementary, they want us all gone eventually
[00:41.13] Trooping out of state for a plate of knowledge
[00:42.90] If coke was cooked without the garbage, we'd all have the top dollars
[00:46.43] Imagine everybody flashing, fashion
[00:48.70] Designer clothes, lacing your clique up with diamond roles
[00:51.42] Your people holding dough, no parole
[00:53.13] No rubbers, go in raw, imagine law with no undercovers
[00:56.74] Just some thoughts for the mind
[00:58.04] I take a glimpse into time
[00:59.41] Watch the blimp read "The World Is Mine"
[01:01.16] If I ruled the world
[01:03.78] (Imagine that)
[01:05.06] I'd free all my sons (I love 'em, love 'em baby)
[01:11.59] Black diamonds and pearls
[01:14.57] (Could it be? If you could be mine, we'd both shine)
[01:16.45] If I ruled the world
[01:18.98] (Still living for today, in these last days and times)
[01:20.84] The way to be, paradise like relaxing Black, Latino and Anglo-Saxon
[01:24.62] Armani exchange the reins
[01:27.02] Cash, Lost Tribe of Shabazz, free at last
[01:29.78] Brand new whips to crash then we laugh in the iller path
[01:32.57] The Villa house is for the crew, how we do
[01:34.44] Trees for breakfast, dime sexes and Benz stretches
[01:37.76] So many years of depression make me vision
[01:39.65] The better living, type of place to raise kids in
[01:42.14] Open they eyes to the lies history's told foul
[01:44.50] But I'm as wise as the old owl, plus the Gold Child
[01:47.56] Seeing things like I was controlling, clique rolling
[01:50.01] Tricking six digits on kicks and still holding
[01:52.57] Trips to Paris, I civilized every savage
[01:55.03] Give me one shot, I turn trife life to lavish
[01:57.88] Political prisoner set free, stress free
[02:00.41] No work release, purple M3's and jet skis
[02:02.74] Feel the wind breeze in West Indies
[02:04.42] I make Coretta Scott-King mayor the cities and reverse themes to Willies
[02:07.71] It sounds foul, but every girl I meet to go downtown
[02:10.26] I'd open every cell in Attica send em to Africa
[02:12.66] If I ruled the world
[02:15.45] (Imagine that)
[02:16.42] I'd free all my sons (I love 'em, love 'em baby)
[02:22.17] Black diamonds and pearls
[02:25.32] (Could it be? If you could be mine, we'd both shine)
[02:27.89] If I ruled the world
[02:30.43] (Still living for today, in these last days and times)
[02:31.32] And then we'll walk right up to the sun
[02:35.68] Hand in hand
[02:38.09] We'll walk right up to the sun
[02:41.11] We won't land
[02:43.62] We'll walk right up to the sun
[02:46.22] Hand in hand
[02:48.32] We'll walk right up to the sun
[02:51.00] We won't land
[02:53.59] You love to hear the story how the thugs live in worry
[02:56.26] Duck down in car seats, heat's mandatory
[02:58.76] Running from Jake, gettin chased, hunger for papes
[03:01.04] These are the breaks many mistakes go down out of state
[03:04.41] Wait, I had to let it marinate we carry weight
[03:06.57] Trying to get laced, flip the ace stack the safe
[03:09.11] Millionaire plan to keep the gat with the cocked hammer
[03:12.32] Making moves in Atlanta, back-and-forth scrambler
[03:14.44] Cause you could have all the chips, be poor or rich
[03:17.04] Still nobody want a nigga having shit
[03:19.41] If I ruled the world and everything in it, sky's the limit
[03:22.25] I push a Q-45 Infinit
[03:24.28] It wouldn't be no such thing as jealousies or B Felonies
[03:27.33] Strictly living longevity to the destiny
[03:29.36] I thought I'd never see but reality struck
[03:31.85] Better find out before your time's out, what the fuck?
[03:34.29] If I ruled the world
[03:36.82] (Imagine that)
[03:38.66] I'd free all my sons (I love 'em, love 'em baby)
[03:44.47] Black diamonds and pearls
[03:46.55] (Could it be? If you could be mine, we'd both shine)
[03:49.76] If I ruled the world
[03:51.60] (Still living for today, in these last days and times)
[03:55.07] If I ruled the world (If I ruled, if I ruled)
[03:57.43] (Imagine that)
[03:58.80] I'd free all my sons (If I ruled, if I ruled)
[04:02.47] (I love 'em, love 'em baby)
[04:04.65] Black diamonds and pearls, black diamonds
[04:07.52] (Could it be? If you could be mine we'd both shine)
[04:10.10] If I ruled the world
[04:11.85] (Still living for today, in these last days and times)
[04:14.81] If I ruled the world (If I ruled, if I ruled, I'd free all my sons)
[04:21.97] Black diamonds, I love 'em, love 'em baby
[04:25.01] (Black diamonds and pearls, if I ruled)
[04:30.76] If I ruled the world
[04:35.68] If I ruled the world
[04:38.29] I love 'em, love 'em baby
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