Water
Исполнитель: Mos Def
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<br>There`s nothing more refreshing (that cool refreshing drink)<br>Than a cool, crisp, clean glass of water <br>On a warm summer`s day (That cool refreshing drink)<br>Try it with your friends<br><br>New World Water make the tide rise high<br>Come inland and make your house go "Bye" (My house!)<br>Fools done upset the Old Man River<br>Made him carry slave ships and fed him dead nigga<br>Now his belly full and he about to flood somethin<br>So I`ma throw a rope that ain`t tied to nothin<br>til your crew use the H2 in wise amounts since<br>it`s the New World Water; and every drop counts<br>You can laugh and take it as a joke if you wanna<br>But it don`t rain for four weeks some summers<br>And it`s about to get real wild in the half<br>You be buying Evian just to take a fuckin bath<br>Heads is acting wild, sippin poor, puffin dank<br>Competin with the next man for higher playin rank<br>See I ain`t got time try to be Big Hank, <br>Fuck a bank; I need a twenty-year water tank<br>Cause while these knuckleheads is out here sweatin they goods<br>The sun is sitting in the treetops burnin the woods <br>And as the flames from the blaze get higher and higher<br>They say, "Don`t drink the water! We need it for the fire!"<br>New York is drinkin it (New World Water)<br>Now all of California is drinkin it (New World Water)<br>Way up north and down south is drinkin it (New World Water)<br>Used to have minerals and zinc in it (New World Water)<br>Now they say it got lead and stink in it (New World Water)<br>Fluorocarbons and monoxide<br>Push the water table lopside <br>Used to be free now it cost you a fee <br>Cause oil tankers spill they load as they roam cross the sea<br>Man, you gotta cook with it, bathe and clean with it (That`s right)<br>When it`s hot, summertime you fiend for it (Let em know)<br>You gotta put it in the iron you steamin with (That`s right)<br>It`s what they dress wounds and treat diseases with (Shout it out)<br>The rich and poor, black and white got need for it (That`s right)<br>And everybody in the world can agree with this (Let em know)<br>Consumption promotes health and easiness (That`s right)<br>Go too long without it on this earth and you leavin it (Shout it out)<br>Americans wastin it on some leisure shit (Say word?)<br>And other nations be desperately seekin it (Let em know)<br>Bacteria washing up on they beaches (Say word?)<br>Don`t drink the water, son they can`t wash they feet with it (Let em know)<br>Young babies in perpetual neediness (Say word?)<br>Epidemics hopppin up off the petri dish (Let em know)<br>Control centers try to play it all secretive (Say word?)<br>To avoid public panic and freakiness (Let em know)<br>There are places where TB is common as TV <br>Cause foreign-based companies go and get greedy<br>The type of cats who pollute the whole shore line<br>Have it purified, sell it for a dollar twenty-five<br>Now the world is drinkin it<br>Your moms, wife, and baby girl is drinkin it<br>Up north and down south is drinkin it<br>You should just have to go to your sink for it<br>The cash registers is goin "cha-chink!" for it<br>Fluorocarbons and monoxide<br>Got the fish lookin cockeyed<br>Used to be free now it cost you a fee<br>Cause it`s all about gettin that cash (Money)<br><br>Said it`s all about gettin that cash (Money) (x9)<br>Johny cash (Money)<br>Rosanne Cash (Money)<br>Give me cash (Money)<br>Cold cash (Money)<br>(Repeat to fade)<br><br>Cash rules everything around me,<br>Move!