[00:00.00] 作词 : Nas/Kurt Walker/J. Olivier/Samuel Barnes[00:01.00] 作曲 : Nas/Kurt Walker/J. Olivier/Samuel Barnes[00:12.24]Life..... I wonder....[00:15.65]Will it take me under.... I don't know[00:20.38]Imagine smoking **** 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 ***es 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 ***** having ****[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 ****??[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!!