[00:12.24]Life..... I wonder....
[00:15.65]Will it take me under.... I don't know
[00:20.38]Imagine smoking weed in the streets without cops harassing
[00:23.36]Imagine going to court with no trial
[00:25.81]Lifestyle cruising blue behind my waters
[00:27.93]No welfare supporters more conscious of the way we raise our daughters
[00:30.89]Days are shorter, nights are colder
[00:32.90]Feeling like life is over, these snakes strike like a cobra
[00:36.06]The world's hot my son got knocked evidentaly
[00:38.69]It's elementary, they want us all gone eventually
[00:41.21]Trooping out of state for a plate knowledge
[00:43.69]of coke was cooked without the garbage we'd all have the top dollars
[00:46.38]Imagine everybody flashing, fashion
[00:48.96]Designer clothes, lacing your click up with diamond vogues
[00:51.44]Your people holding dough, no parole
[00:53.44]No rubbers, go in raw imagine law with no undercovers
[00:56.78]Just some thoughts for the mind
[00:58.56]I take a glimpse into time
[01:00.03]watch the blimp read "The World Is Mine"
[01:01.57]If I ruled the world
[01:03.55]Imagine that
[01:06.40]I'd free all my sons, I love em love em baby
[01:11.92]Black diamonds and pearls
[01:14.70]Could it be, if you could
[01:15.86]be mine, we'd both shine
[01:16.48]If I ruled the world
[01:19.31]Still living for today, in
[01:20.00]these last days and times
[01:22.00]The way to be, paradise like relaxing black, latino and anglo-saxon
[01:23.94]Armani exchange the reins
[01:27.37]Cash, Lost Tribe of Shabazz, free at last
[01:29.78]Brand new whips to crash then we laugh in the iller path
[01:32.51]The Villa house is for the crew, how we do
[01:34.87]Trees for breakfast, dime sexes and Benz stretches
[01:38.05]So many years of depression make me vision
[01:40.04]The better living, type of place to raise kids in
[01:42.47]Open they eyes to the lies history's told foul
[01:45.10]But I'm as wise as the old owl, plus the Gold Child
[01:47.74]Seeing things like I was controlling, click rolling
[01:50.17]Tricking six digits on kicks and still holding
[01:52.78]Trips to Paris, I civilized every savage
[01:55.32]Gimme one shot I turn trife life to lavish
[01:57.88]Political prisoner set free, stress free
[02:00.44]No work release purple M3's and jet skis
[02:03.00]Feel the wind breeze in West Indies
[02:04.34]I make Coretta Scott-King mayor the cities and reverse themes to Willies
[02:08.49]It sounds foul but every girl I meet to go downtown
[02:10.60]I'd open every cell in Attica send em to Africa
[02:13.19]If I ruled the world
[02:15.55]Imagine that
[02:18.14]I'd free all my sons, I love em love em baby
[02:23.34]Black diamonds and pearls
[02:25.98]Could it be, if you could
[02:27.08]be mine, we'd both shine
[02:28.48]If I ruled the world
[02:30.34]Still living for today, in
[02:31.73]these last days and times
[02:33.10]And then we'll walk right up to the sun
[02:36.21]Hand in hand
[02:38.65]We'll walk right up to the sun
[02:41.29]We won't land
[02:43.86]We'll walk right up to the sun
[02:46.40]Hand in hand
[02:48.84]We'll walk right up to the sun
[02:51.50]We won't land
[02:53.58]You'd love to hear the story how the thugs live in worry
[02:56.91]Duck down in car seats, heat's mandatory
[02:59.15]Running from Jake, gettin chased, hunger for papes
[03:01.68]These are the breaks many mistakes go down out of state
[03:04.31]Wait, I had to let it marinate we carry weight
[03:07.07]Trying to get laced, flip the ace stack the safe
[03:09.37]Millionaire plan to keep the gat with the cop camera
[03:12.16]Making moves in Atlanta, back and forth scrambler
[03:14.84]Cause you could have all the chips, be poor or rich
[03:17.97]Still nobody want a nigga having shit
[03:19.63]If I ruled the world and everything in it, sky's the limit
[03:22.48]I push a Q-45 Infinit
[03:24.77]It wouldn't be no such thing as jealousies or B Felonies
[03:27.79]Strictly living longevity to the destiny
[03:29.95]I thought I'd never see but reality struck
[03:32.34]Better find out before your time's out, what the fuck??
[03:35.02]If I ruled the world
[03:37.35]Imagine that
[03:39.85]I'd free all my sons, I love em em baby
[03:45.11]Black diamonds and pearls
[03:47.67]Could it be, if you could
[03:48.93]be mine, we'd both shine
[03:50.23]If I ruled the world
[03:52.12]Still living for today, in
[03:53.79]these last days and times
[03:55.35]If I ruled the world, if I ruled, if I ruled
[03:58.34]Imagine that
[04:00.25]I'd free all my sons, if I ruled, if I ruled
[04:03.62]I love em love em baby
[04:05.61]Black diamonds and pearls, black diamonds
[04:08.19]Could it be, if you could
[04:09.32]black diamonds
[04:10.39]be mine, we'd both shine
[04:11.51]If I ruled the world
[04:12.63]Still living for today, in
[04:14.09]these last days and times
[04:15.65]If I ruled the world, if I ruled
[04:20.71]if I ruled, I'd free all my sons
[04:23.46]black diamonds, I love em love em baby
[04:25.93]Black diamonds and pearls, if I ruled
[04:30.29]If I ruled the world
[04:36.22]If I ruled the world
[04:38.89]I love em love em baby!!