If I Ruled the World (feat. Lauryn Hill)
Life
I wonder, will it take me under?
I 'on't know
Imagine smoking weed in the street without cops harassing
Imagine going to court with no trial
Lifestyle, cruising blue Bahama waters
No welfare supporters, more conscious of the way we raise our daughters
Days are shorter, nights are colder
Feeling like life is over, these snakes strike like a cobra
The world's hot, my son got knocked
Evidently, it's elementary, they want us all gone eventually
Trooping outta state for a plate, knowledge
If coke was cooked without the garbage, we'd all have the top dollars
Imagine everybody flashing fashion, designer clothes
Lacing ya clique up with diamond Roles
Your people holding dough, no parole, no rubbers
Go in raw, imagine law with no undercover
Just some thoughts for the mind
I take a glimpse into time
Watch the blimp read, "The World Is Mine"
If I ruled the world (imagine that)
I'd free all my sons (I love 'em, love 'em, baby)
Black diamonds and pearls
Could it be, if you could be mine, we'd both shine
If I ruled the world
Still living for today, in these last days and times
The way to be paradise life, relaxing
Black, Latino, and Anglo-Saxon
Armani Exchange, the Range
Cash, Lost Tribe of Shabazz, free at last
Brand-new whips to crash, then we laugh in a killer path
The villa house is for the crew, how we do
Trees for breakfast, dime sexes and Benz stretches
So many years of depression, make me vision
The better living, type of place to raise kids in
Open the eye to the lies, history's told foul
But I'm as wise as the old owl, plus the Gold Child
Seeing things like I was controlling, clique rolling
Tricking six-digits on kicks and still holding
Trips to Paris, I'd civilize every savage
Give me one shot, I turn strife life to lavish
Political prisoners set free, stress-free
No work release, purple M3's and jet skis
Feel the wind breeze in West Indies
I'd let Coretta Scott-King mayor the cities, and reverse fiends to Willies
It sounds foul, but every girl I meet'd go down-town
I'd open every cell in Attica, send 'em to Africa
If I ruled the world (imagine that)
I'd free all my sons (I love 'em, love 'em, baby)
Black diamonds and pearls
Could it be, if you could be mine, we'd both shine
If I ruled the world
Still living for today, in these last days and times
And then we'll walk right up to the sun, hand in hand
We'll walk right up to the sun, we won't land
We'll walk right up to the sun, hand in hand
We'll walk right up to the sun, we won't land (land)
I wonder, will it take me under?
I 'on't know
Imagine smoking weed in the street without cops harassing
Imagine going to court with no trial
Lifestyle, cruising blue Bahama waters
No welfare supporters, more conscious of the way we raise our daughters
Days are shorter, nights are colder
Feeling like life is over, these snakes strike like a cobra
The world's hot, my son got knocked
Evidently, it's elementary, they want us all gone eventually
Trooping outta state for a plate, knowledge
If coke was cooked without the garbage, we'd all have the top dollars
Imagine everybody flashing fashion, designer clothes
Lacing ya clique up with diamond Roles
Your people holding dough, no parole, no rubbers
Go in raw, imagine law with no undercover
Just some thoughts for the mind
I take a glimpse into time
Watch the blimp read, "The World Is Mine"
If I ruled the world (imagine that)
I'd free all my sons (I love 'em, love 'em, baby)
Black diamonds and pearls
Could it be, if you could be mine, we'd both shine
If I ruled the world
Still living for today, in these last days and times
The way to be paradise life, relaxing
Black, Latino, and Anglo-Saxon
Armani Exchange, the Range
Cash, Lost Tribe of Shabazz, free at last
Brand-new whips to crash, then we laugh in a killer path
The villa house is for the crew, how we do
Trees for breakfast, dime sexes and Benz stretches
So many years of depression, make me vision
The better living, type of place to raise kids in
Open the eye to the lies, history's told foul
But I'm as wise as the old owl, plus the Gold Child
Seeing things like I was controlling, clique rolling
Tricking six-digits on kicks and still holding
Trips to Paris, I'd civilize every savage
Give me one shot, I turn strife life to lavish
Political prisoners set free, stress-free
No work release, purple M3's and jet skis
Feel the wind breeze in West Indies
I'd let Coretta Scott-King mayor the cities, and reverse fiends to Willies
It sounds foul, but every girl I meet'd go down-town
I'd open every cell in Attica, send 'em to Africa
If I ruled the world (imagine that)
I'd free all my sons (I love 'em, love 'em, baby)
Black diamonds and pearls
Could it be, if you could be mine, we'd both shine
If I ruled the world
Still living for today, in these last days and times
And then we'll walk right up to the sun, hand in hand
We'll walk right up to the sun, we won't land
We'll walk right up to the sun, hand in hand
We'll walk right up to the sun, we won't land (land)
Credits
Writer(s): Jean Claude Olivier, Samuel J. Barnes, Lawrence Smith, Nasir Jones, Norman Ray Harris, Allan Wayne Felder, David Franklin Reeves, Kurt Walker, Jalil Hutchins, Aaron Gerald O'bryant
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