If I Ruled The World Lyrics

Life..... I wonder....Will it take me under.... I don't know[Verse One: Nas]Imagine smoking weed in the streets without cops harassinImagine going to court with no trialLifestyle cruising blue behind my watersNo welfare supporters more conscious of the way we raise ourdaughtersDays are shorter, nights are colderFeeling like life is over, these snakes strike like a cobraThe world's hot my son got not evidentlyIt's elementary, they want us all gone eventuallyTrooping out of state for a plate knowledgeof coke was cooked without the garbage we'd all have the topdollarsImagine everybody flashin, fashionDesigner clothes, lacing your click up with diamond voguesYour people holdin dough, no paroleNo rubbers, go in raw imagine law with no undercoversJust some thoughts for the mindI take a glimpse into timewatch the blimp read "The World Is Mine"[Chorus: Lauryn Hill, Nas]If I ruled the worldImagine thatI'd free all my sons, I love em love em babyBlack diamonds and pearlsCould it be, if you could be mine, we'd both shineIf I ruled the worldStill livin for today, inthese last days and times[Verse Two: Nas]The way to be, paradise like relaxin black, latino andanglo-saxonArmani exchange the reinsCash, Lost Tribe of