[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