If I Ruled the World (Imagine That)

Song If I Ruled the World (Imagine That)
Artist Nas
Album Greatest Hits

Lyrics

[00:12.27] Life I wonder
[00:16.04] Will it take me under
[00:18.22] I don't know
[00:20.84] Imagine smoking weed
[00:21.65] In the streets without cops harassing
[00:23.59] Imagine going to court with no trial
[00:25.52] Lifestyle cruising blue behind my waters
[00:27.95] No welfare supporters more conscious
[00:29.77] Of the way we raise our daughters
[00:31.26] Days are shorter nights are colder
[00:33.07] Feeling like life is over
[00:34.32] These snakes strike like a cobra
[00:36.07] The world's hot my son
[00:37.19] Got knocked evidentaly
[00:38.69] It's elementary
[00:39.56] They want us all gone eventually
[00:41.25] Trooping out of state
[00:42.24] For a plate knowledge
[00:43.49] Of coke was cooked without the garbage
[00:44.99] We'd all have the top dollars
[00:46.61] Imagine everybody flashing fashion
[00:48.86] Designer clothes
[00:49.86] Lacing your click up
[00:50.92] With diamond vogues
[00:51.85] Your people holding dough
[00:52.85] No parole
[00:53.48] No rubbers go in raw imagine law
[00:55.73] With no undercovers
[00:56.85] Just some thoughts for the mind
[00:58.54] I take a glimpse into time
[00:59.90] Watch the blimp read "The World Is Mine"
[01:01.88] If I ruled the world
[01:04.00] Imagine that
[01:04.44]
[01:06.50] I'd free all my sons
[01:09.43] I love em love em baby
[01:11.99] Black diamonds and pearls
[01:14.36] Could it be if you could
[01:15.80] Be mine we'd both shine
[01:17.04] If I ruled the world
[01:18.73] Still living for today in
[01:20.41] These last days and times
[01:21.85] The way to be paradise
[01:22.97] Like relaxing black
[01:24.16] Latino and anglo-saxon
[01:25.59] Armani exchange the reins
[01:27.09] Cash Lost Tribe of Shabazz
[01:28.90] Free at last
[01:29.71] Brand new whips to crash
[01:31.08] Then we laugh in the iller path
[01:32.72] The Villa house is for the crew
[01:34.22] How we do
[01:34.97] Trees for breakfast
[01:35.78] Dime sexes and Benz stretches
[01:37.59] So many years of depression
[01:39.09] Make me vision
[01:39.90] The better living
[01:40.71] Type of place to raise kids in
[01:42.59] Open they eyes to
[01:43.64] The lies history's told foul
[01:45.08] But I'm as wise as the old owl
[01:46.89] Plus the Gold Child
[01:47.82] Seeing things like I was controlling
[01:49.45] Click rolling
[01:50.07] Tricking six digits on kicks
[01:51.51] And still holding
[01:52.63] Trips to Paris I civilized every savage
[01:55.25] Gimme one shot
[01:56.31] I turn trife life to lavish
[01:57.81] Political prisoner set free stress free
[02:00.20] No work release purple M3's
[02:01.94] And jet skis
[02:02.95] Feel the wind breeze
[02:03.88] In West Indies
[02:04.50] I make Coretta Scott-King
[02:05.38] Mayor the cities
[02:06.31] And reverse themes to Willies
[02:08.00] It sounds foul but every girl
[02:09.43] I meet to go downtown
[02:10.62] I'd open every cell
[02:11.62] In Attica send em to Africa
[02:13.18] If I ruled the world
[02:15.44] Imagine that
[02:16.06]
[02:18.05] I'd free all my sons
[02:20.92] I love em love em baby
[02:23.35] Black diamonds and pearls
[02:25.79] Could it be if you could
[02:27.22] Be mine we'd both shine
[02:28.47] If I ruled the world
[02:30.22] Still living for today in
[02:32.02] These last days and times
[02:33.40] And then we'll walk right up to the sun
[02:36.39] Hand in hand
[02:38.64] We'll walk right up to the sun
[02:41.38] We won't land
[02:43.76] We'll walk right up to the sun
[02:46.32] Hand in hand
[02:48.87] We'll walk right up to the sun
[02:51.68] We won't land
[02:54.18] You'd love to hear the story
[02:55.30] How the thugs live in worry
[02:56.61] Duck down in car seats
[02:57.80] Heat's mandatory
[02:58.23]
[02:58.95] Running from Jake
[02:59.88] Gettin chased hunger for papes
[03:01.56] These are the breaks many mistakes
[03:02.94] Go down out of state
[03:04.25] Wait I had to let it marinate
[03:06.18] We carry weight
[03:07.00] Trying to get laced
[03:07.93] Flip the ace stack the safe
[03:09.43] Millionaire plan to
[03:10.55] Keep the gat with the cop camera
[03:12.36] Making moves in Atlanta
[03:13.36] Back and forth scrambler
[03:14.79] Cause you could have all the chips
[03:16.48] Be poor or rich
[03:17.51] Still nobody want a nigga having shit
[03:19.63] If I ruled the world and everything in it
[03:21.75] Sky's the limit
[03:22.56] I push a Q-45 Infinit
[03:24.31] It wouldn't be no such thing
[03:25.87] As jealousies or B Felonies
[03:27.18] Strictly living longevity to the destiny
[03:29.84] I thought I'd never see but reality struck
[03:32.15] Better find out before your time's out
[03:33.96] What the fuck
[03:35.02] If I ruled the world
[03:37.33] Imagine that
[03:39.70] I'd free all my sons
[03:42.63] I love em em baby
[03:44.86] Black diamonds and pearls
[03:47.67] Could it be if you could
[03:49.23] Be mine we'd both shine
[03:50.29] If I ruled the world
[03:51.97] Still living for today in
[03:53.60] These last days and times
[03:55.16] If I ruled the world
[03:57.84] If I ruled if I ruled
[04:00.17] I'd free all my sons
[04:02.10] If I ruled if I ruled
[04:04.47] I love em love em baby
[04:05.85] Black diamonds and pearls
[04:07.66] Black diamonds
[04:08.16] Could it be if you could
[04:09.60] Black diamonds
[04:10.09] Be mine we'd both shine
[04:11.40] If I ruled the world
[04:12.59] Still living for today in
[04:14.08] These last days and times
[04:15.64] If I ruled the world if I ruled
[04:18.27]
[04:19.72] If I ruled I'd free all my sons
[04:22.87] I love em love em baby
[04:26.17] Black diamonds and pearls
[04:28.58] If I ruled if I ruled the world