New World Water - Mos Def.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : Fernandez, Smith
[00:09.020]There's nothing more refreshing (That cool refreshing drink)
[00:11.306]Than a cool, crisp, clean glass of water
[00:14.623]On a warm summer's day (That cool refreshing drink)
[00:17.494]Try it with your friends
[00:20.142]New World Water make the tide rise high
[00:22.143]Come inland and make your house go "Bye" (My house!)
[00:24.785]Fools done upset the Old Man River
[00:26.638]Made him carry slave ships and fed him dead niggas
[00:29.385]Now his belly full and he about to flood somethin'
[00:31.557]So I'm throwin' rope that ain't tied to nothin'
[00:34.110]Tell your crew use the H2 in wise amounts since
[00:36.598]The New World Water; and every drop counts
[00:38.888]You can laugh and take it as a joke if you wanna
[00:41.170]But it don't rain a full week some summers
[00:43.607]And it's about to get real wild in the half
[00:45.992]You be buying Evian just to take a ****in bath
[00:48.451]Heads is acting wild, sippin' poor, puffin' dank
[00:50.676]Competin' with the next man for higher playin' rank
[00:53.145]See I ain't got time tryin' to be Big Hank
[00:55.424]**** a bank; I need a twenty-year water tank
[00:58.042]Cause while these knuckleheads is out here sweatin' they goods
[01:00.214]The sun is sitting in the treetops, burnin' the woods
[01:02.544]And as the flames from the blaze get higher and higher
[01:05.255]They say, "Don't drink the water! We need it for the fire!"
[01:07.623]New York is drinkin' it (New World Water)
[01:09.891]Now all of California is drinkin' it (New World Water)
[01:12.040]Way up North and Down South is drinkin' it (New World Water)
[01:14.337]Used to have minerals and zinc in it (New World Water)
[01:16.834]Now they say it got lead and stink in it (New World Water)
[01:20.030]Fluorocarbons and monoxide
[01:20.913]Push the water table lopside
[01:22.094]Used to be free, now it cost you a fee
[01:24.138]'Cause oil tankers spill they load as they roam across the sea
[01:26.761]Man, you gotta cook with it, bathe and clean with it (That's right)
[01:29.228]When it's hot, summertime you fiend for it (Let 'em know)
[01:31.971]You gotta put it in the iron you steamin' with (That's right)
[01:34.425]It's what they dress wounds and treat diseases with (Shout it out)
[01:37.168]The rich and poor, black and white got need for it (That's right)
[01:38.964]And everybody in the world can agree with this (Let 'em know)
[01:41.367]Consumption promotes health and easiness (That's right)
[01:43.773]Go too long without it on this earth and you leavin' it (Shout it out)
[01:46.377]Americans wastin' it on some leisure shit (Say word?)
[01:48.742]Another nation be desperately seekin' it (Let 'em know)
[01:51.160]Bacteria washing up on they beaches (Say word?)
[01:53.543]Don't drink the water, son they can't wash they feet with it (Let 'em know)
[01:56.958]Young babies in perpetual neediness (Say word?)
[01:58.399]Epidemics hoppin' up off the petri dish (Let 'em know)
[02:00.705]Control centers try to play it all secretive (Say word?)
[02:03.374]To avoid public panic and freakiness (Let 'em know)
[02:05.620]There are places where TB is common as TV
[02:07.530]Cause foreign-based companies go and get greedy
[02:09.896]The type of cats who pollute the whole shore line
[02:12.308]Have it purified, sell it for a dollar twenty-five
[02:14.822]Now the world is drinkin' it (New World Water)
[02:17.374]Your moms, wife, and baby girl is drinkin' it (New World Water)
[02:19.309]Up North and Down South is drinkin' it (New World Water)
[02:21.503]You should just have to go to your sink for it (New World Water)
[02:23.847]The cash registers is goin' "cha-chink!" for it (New World Water)
[02:26.350]Fluorocarbons and monoxide
[02:27.953]Got the fish lookin' cockeyed
[02:29.507]Used to be free, now it cost you a fee
[02:31.572]'Cause it's all about gettin' that cash (Money)
[02:34.232]Said it's all about gettin' that cash (Money)
[02:36.191]Said it's all about gettin' that cash (Money)
[02:38.637]Said it's all about gettin' that cash (Money)
[02:40.844]Said it's all about gettin' that cash (Money)
[02:43.564]Said it's all about gettin' that cash (Money)
[02:45.650]Said it's all about gettin' that cash (Money)
[02:48.128]Said it's all about gettin' that cash (Money)
[02:50.463]Said it's all about gettin' that cash (Money)
[02:53.104]Said it's all about gettin' that cash (Money)
[02:55.556]Johnny Cash (Money)
[02:56.592]Roseanne Cash (Money)
[02:57.841]Give me cash (Money)
[02:59.094]Cold cash (Money)
[03:08.008]Cash rules everything around me
[03:09.700]Move!