[00:00:00] If I Ruled the World (Imagine That) - Nas (奈斯)/Lauryn Hill (劳伦·希尔) [00:00:12] Life I wonder [00:00:16] Will it take me under [00:00:18] I don't know [00:00:20] Imagine smoking w**d [00:00:21] In the streets without cops harassing [00:00:23] Imagine going to court with no trial [00:00:25] Lifestyle cruising blue behind my waters [00:00:27] No welfare supporters more conscious [00:00:29] Of the way we raise our daughters [00:00:31] Days are shorter nights are colder [00:00:33] Feeling like life is over [00:00:34] These snakes strike like a cobra [00:00:36] The world's hot my son [00:00:37] Got knocked evidentaly [00:00:38] It's elementary [00:00:39] They want us all gone eventually [00:00:41] Trooping out of state [00:00:42] For a plate knowledge [00:00:43] Of coke was cooked without the garbage [00:00:44] We'd all have the top dollars [00:00:46] Imagine everybody flashing fashion [00:00:48] Designer clothes [00:00:49] Lacing your click up [00:00:50] With diamond vogues [00:00:51] Your people holding dough [00:00:52] No parole [00:00:53] No rubbers go in raw imagine law [00:00:55] With no undercovers [00:00:56] Just some thoughts for the mind [00:00:58] I take a glimpse into time [00:00:59] Watch the blimp read "The World Is Mine" [00:01:01] If I ruled the world [00:01:04] Imagine that [00:01:06] I'd free all my sons [00:01:09] I love em love em baby [00:01:11] Black diamonds and pearls [00:01:14] Could it be if you could [00:01:15] Be mine we'd both shine [00:01:17] If I ruled the world [00:01:18] Still living for today in [00:01:20] These last days and times [00:01:21] The way to be paradise [00:01:22] Like relaxing black [00:01:24] Latino and anglo-saxon [00:01:25] Armani exchange the reins [00:01:27] Cash Lost Tribe of Shabazz [00:01:28] Free at last [00:01:29] Brand new whips to crash [00:01:31] Then we laugh in the iller path [00:01:32] The Villa house is for the crew [00:01:34] How we do [00:01:34] Trees for breakfast [00:01:35] Dime sexes and Benz stretches [00:01:37] So many years of depression [00:01:39] Make me vision [00:01:39] The better living [00:01:40] Type of place to raise kids in [00:01:42] Open they eyes to [00:01:43] The lies history's told foul [00:01:45] But I'm as wise as the old owl [00:01:46] Plus the Gold Child [00:01:47] Seeing things like I was controlling [00:01:49] Click rolling [00:01:50] Tricking six digits on kicks [00:01:51] And still holding [00:01:52] Trips to Paris I civilized every savage [00:01:55] Gimme one shot [00:01:56] I turn trife life to lavish [00:01:57] Political prisoner set free stress free [00:02:00] No work release purple M3's [00:02:01] And jet skis [00:02:02] Feel the wind breeze [00:02:03] In West Indies [00:02:04] I make Coretta Scott-King [00:02:05] Mayor the cities [00:02:06] And reverse themes to Willies [00:02:08] It sounds foul but every girl [00:02:09] I meet to go downtown [00:02:10] I'd open every cell [00:02:11] In Attica send em to Africa [00:02:13] If I ruled the world [00:02:15] Imagine that [00:02:18] I'd free all my sons [00:02:20] I love em love em baby [00:02:23] Black diamonds and pearls [00:02:25] Could it be if you could [00:02:27] Be mine we'd both shine [00:02:28] If I ruled the world [00:02:30] Still living for today in [00:02:32] These last days and times [00:02:33] And then we'll walk right up to the sun [00:02:36] Hand in hand [00:02:38] We'll walk right up to the sun [00:02:41] We won't land [00:02:43] We'll walk right up to the sun [00:02:46] Hand in hand [00:02:48] We'll walk right up to the sun [00:02:51] We won't land [00:02:54] You'd love to hear the story [00:02:55] How the thugs live in worry [00:02:56] Duck down in car seats [00:02:57] Heat's mandatory [00:02:58] Running from Jake [00:02:59] Gettin chased hunger for papes [00:03:01] These are the breaks many mistakes [00:03:02] Go down out of state [00:03:04] Wait I had to let it marinate [00:03:06] We carry weight [00:03:07] Trying to get laced [00:03:07] Flip the ace stack the safe [00:03:09] Millionaire plan to [00:03:10] Keep the gat with the cop camera