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Key: D major•

Verse 1

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Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, Nas, uh, yo, yo

Life, they wonder,

can they take me under?

Verse 2

Nah, never that, nah, yo, yo

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I come from the housing

tenement buildings

Unlimited killings,

menaces marked for death

Better known as the projects where junkies

and rock heads dwell

Though I owe to it my success

With survival of the fittest,

everyday is a chal'

I would think I'm a part of U.S.A.

and be proud

Confronted with racism, started

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to feel foreign

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Like, the darker you are the realer

your problems

I reached for the stars but

I just kept slipping

On this life mission,

never know what's next

Ancient kings from Egypt,

up to Julius Cezar

Had a piece of the globe, every continent

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Yo, there's Asia, Africa,

Europe, France, Japan

Pakistan, America, Afghanstan

Yo, there's Protestants,

Jews, Blacks, Arabics

Call a truce, world peace,

stop acting like savages

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No war, we should take

time and think

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The bombs and tanks makes

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mankind extinct

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But since the beginning of time

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it's been men with arms fighting

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Lost lives in the Towers and Pentagon,

why then?

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Must it go on, we must stop the killing

F#m

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Tell me why we die, we all God's children

Verse 3

F#m

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All this hate can't last forever

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(uh, c'mon)

It's time that we stand together

F#m

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(yeah, for the world)

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Everybody wants to rule the world (what,

F#m

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what, what, what, what, c'mon)

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World (peace),

Verse 4

world (peace), world (peace), world

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Yo, there's brothers on the block,

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posted up like they own it

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That's they corner,

from New York to California

Got blocks locked down

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Like, "dog you safe whenever

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you with me, see this is my town"

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So the youngsters,

grows in ghettos, goes to prison

At an early age,

already know it's against him

So in order for him to survive,

one day he must

Open up his eyes to the set

backs and rise

'Cause, everybody wants a shot,

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in this land of opportunity

Look at what this country's

got

There shouldn't be

nobody homeless

How can the president fix other problems

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when he ain't fixed home yet

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The earth wasn't made

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for one man to rule alone

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To all colors increases, to home it belongs

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I want land, mansions, banks and gold

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The diamonds in Africa,

oil in my control

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The world's natural resources,

all it's residuals

But then comes foes,

F#m

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I have to guard it with missiles

And I become the most wanted

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But is it worth hearing a million people

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F#m

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problems and followed by Secret Service

I guess, attempts at my life

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with loaded barrels

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So move over Colin Powell

or just throw in the towel, yo

Verse 5

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F#m

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All this hate can't last forever

(uh, c'mon)

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It's time that we stand together

(yeah, for the world)

F#m

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Everybody wants to rule the world (what,

F#m

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what, what, what, what, c'mon)

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World (peace),

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world (peace), world (peace), world

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Verse 6

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Y'all know that's my style,

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to hit you at the right time

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No other compares to what

Nas write down

Tell you my dreams,

show you my pain is yours

You could get what you love,

be a chain in cause

You alive right now

There's so many that's dead or locked up inside the beast,

I'm a hot light now

It's whatever man think

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of manifest to the real

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The plan is to wake up 'cause time reveals

All this hate can't forever last

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All my ghetto heroes in Heaven,

it's like you right here and never passed

You just transcend,

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I know I'm goin' see you again

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Hoping I reach the world

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leaders and win

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Ain't nothing without struggle,

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listen up, it's critical

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We used to fear arms,

now the weapons are chemical

In Hip- Hop, the weapons are lyrical

To be the best you challenge the best,

then the blessings are spiritual

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Top of the world for

the kid and unless

Popping any rapper's head off his

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shoulders no contest

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I know the Most High hear me,

so fly you can't near me

You scared of a mirror,

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my theory is that - knowledge is power

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To every projects and every street corner,

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we gotta get ours now

Verse 7

F#m

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All this hate can't last forever

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(uh, c'mon)

F#m

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It's time that we stand together

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(yeah, for the world)

F#m

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Everybody wants to rule the world (what,

what, what, what, what, c'mon)

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World

Verse 8

Yo, niggas ain't forget shit,

know what I'm saying?

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Niggas ain't forget nothing

Men, women and children killed

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by the police and shit

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Niggas ain't gon' forget that,

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you know what I mean?

Yo, what this war just show me is

like, whatever you want out of life

Whatever you feel is rightfully yours,

go out and take it

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Even if that means blood and death

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You know, that's what I was raised

up on, that's what this country's about

This is what my country is,

and my country's a motherfucker

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