[00:08.86]Everybody wants heaven but nobody wants dead
[00:10.68]Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed
[00:13.11]Everybody wants heaven but nobody wants dead
[00:15.35]Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed
[00:17.29]They wanna shine on  shine on  shine on  shine on Shine on  shine on  shine on  shine on  yeah
[00:25.59]They dug me out the soil in the mines of the motherland
[00:28.58]Now I'm misplaced  one hand to another hand
[00:30.61]Illegal smugglin'  people strugglin'
[00:32.87]Wish they could just throw me back in the mud again
[00:34.80]Yeah  guess that's how we got here
[00:36.92]Slave trade then the diamond trade
[00:38.56]Every child's afraid when
[00:40.46]His mother and father get sprayed
[00:41.76]Forced in the army  young killer brigade
[00:43.42]Gets a new name then he give his nose glue
[00:45.50]Til' his mind can't take what he's gon' through
[00:47.76]Lookin' in that dirt for that eyes so blue
[00:49.91]Then the Royal Family  the ice goes to
[00:52.06]And this thing has to change  feelin' half-ashamed
[00:54.60]As I rap with my platinum chain
[00:56.22]when youShop for a gift for me
[00:58.79]You think about the misery  the same way
[01:01.04]We made apartheid history
[01:00.71]We can do the same thing to the conflict ice
[01:03.93]But everybody wanna shine  right
[01:05.18]Everybody wants heaven but nobody wants dead
[01:07.00]Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed
[01:09.08]Everybody wants heaven but nobody wants dead
[01:11.22]Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed
[01:13.27]They wanna shine on  shine on  shine on  shine on Shine on  shine on  shine on  shine on
[01:22.51]My VVS glimmers on my chest
[01:24.46]200 thou' encrusted watch on my wrist
[01:26.86]I wonder how people starve to death
[01:28.61]When God bless the land that lacks the harvest
[01:30.96]The stone's equality  but they homes are poverty
[01:33.41]And the whole world ignores the robbery
[01:35.55]Bought my girl pretty rocks when she's mad at me
[01:37.80]Tear-drop shaped  uh  perfect clarity
[01:39.85]It shocks  so many are killed annually
[01:41.95]'Cause of greed  lust  and pure vanity
[01:43.89]Stop talkin' and do somethin' about it
[01:45.99]Every holiday season  jewelry stores crowded
[01:48.53]Kids snatched from their homes  mutilated alive
[01:50.68]Husbands separated from wives
[01:52.28]Keep the Jesus piece to be fly
[01:54.03]But back in the day there was a time when they called us shine
[01:57.52]Everybody wants heaven but nobody wants dead
[01:59.07]Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed
[02:01.07]Everybody wants heaven but nobody wants dead
[02:03.08]Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed
[02:05.48]They wanna shine on  shine on  shine on  shine on Shine on  shine on  shine on  shine on