Intro: Nas (Lauryn Hill singing in the background)



Life..... I wonder....

Will it take me under.... I don't know



Verse One: Nas



Imagine smoking weed in the streets without cops harassin

Imagine going to court with no trial

Lifestyle cruising blue behind my 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 not evidently

It's elementary, they want us all gone eventually

Trooping out of state for a plate knowledge

of coke was cooked without the garbage we'd all have the top dollars

Imagine everybody flashin, fashion

Designer clothes, lacing your click up with diamond vogues

Your people holdin dough, no parole

No rubbers, go in raw imagine law with no undercovers

Just some thoughts for the mind

I take a glimpse into time

watch the blimp read "The World Is Mine"



Chorus: Lauryn Hill, Nas



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 livin for today, in

these last days and times



Verse Two: Nas



The way to be, paradise like relaxin black, latino and anglo-saxon

Armani exchange the reins

Cash, Lost Tribe of Shabazz, free at last

Brand new whips to crash then we laugh in the iller 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 livin, type of place to raise kids in

Open they eyes to the lies history's told foul

But I'm as wise a