Key: G major•
Verse 1
G
There's nothing more refreshing
(that cool refreshing drink)
Than a cool, crisp,
clean glass of water
On a warm summer's day
(that cool refreshing drink)
Verse 2
Try it with your friends
the tide rise high
Come inland and make your house go,
"Bye" (my house)
Fools done upset the Old Man River
Made him carry slave ships
and fed him dead nigga
Now his belly full and he
about to flood something
So I'm throwin' rope that
ain't tied to nothing
Tell your crew use the H2 in
wise amounts since
It's the New World Water
and every drop counts
You can laugh and take it as
a joke if you wanna
But it don't rain all full week
some summers
And it's about to get real wild in the half
You be buying Evian just
to take a fucking bath
Heads is acting wild, sipping poor,
puffin' dank (uh)
Competing with the next man
for higher playing rank (right)
See I ain't got time try to be Big Hank
Fuck a bank,
I need a twenty year water tank
'Cause while these knuckleheads is out
here sweating they goods
The sun is sitting in the treetops
burning the woods
And as the flames from the blaze
get higher and higher
They say, "Don't drink the water,
we need it for the fire"
Verse 3
(New World Water)
Now all of California is drinking it
(New World Water)
Way up north and down south is
drinking it (New World Water)
Used to have minerals and zinc
in it (New World Water)
Now they say it got lead and stink in it
(New World Water)
Fluorocarbons and monoxide
Push the water table lopside
Used to be free now it cost
you a fee
'Cause oil tankers spill they load
as they roam cross the sea
Verse 4
and clean with it (that's right)
When it's hot, summertime you fiend
for it (let 'em know)
You gotta put it in the iron you steaming
with (that's right)
It's what they dress wounds and treat
diseases with (shout it out)
The rich and poor,
black and white got need for it (that's right)
And everybody in the world can agree
with this (let 'em know)
Consumption promotes health and
easiness (that's right)
Go too long without it on this earth and you
leaving it (shout it out)
Americans wasting it on some
leisure shit (say word?)
Another nations be desperately
seeking it (let 'em know)
Bacteria washing up on they
beaches (say word?)
Don't drink the water, son,
they can't wash they feet with it (let 'em know)
Young babies in perpetual neediness
(say word?)
Epidemics hopping up off the petri
dish (let 'em know)
Control centers try to play
all secretive (say word?)
To avoid public panic and
freakiness (let 'em know)
There are places where
TB is common as TV
'Cause foreign- based companies
go and get greedy
The type of cats who pollute
the whole shoreline
Have it purified,
sell it for a dollar twenty- five
Verse 5
(New World Water)
Your moms, wife,
and baby girl is drinking it (New World)
Up north and down south is drinking
it (New World Water)
You should just have to go to your sink
for it (New World Water)
The cash registers is going "cha- chink" for it
(New World Water)
Fluorocarbons and monoxide
Got the fish looking cockeyed
Used to be free now it cost you a fee
'Cause it's all about getting
that cash (money)
Verse 6
that cash (money)
Said, it's all about getting
that cash (money)
Said, it's all about getting
that cash (money)
Said, it's all about getting
your cash (money)
Said, it's all about getting
that cash (money)
Said, it's all about getting
that cash (money)
Said, it's all about getting that
cash (money)
that cash (money)
Said, it's all about getting that cash
(money)
Johny Cash (money) Roseanne Cash (money)
Verse 7
G
Give
Cash rules everything around me
Move
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