Shine On

[00:08.62] Everybody wants heaven, but nobody wants dead
[00:10.89] Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed
[00:12.98] Everybody wants heaven, but nobody wants dead
[00:15.10] Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed
[00:17.11] They wanna shine on 'em, shine on 'em
[00:19.76] Shine on 'em, shine on 'em
[00:21.73] Shine on 'em, shine on 'em
[00:23.96] Shine on 'em, shine on 'em, yeah
[00:25.92] They dug me out the soil in the mines of the motherland
[00:28.46] Now I'm misplaced, one hand to another hand
[00:30.76] Illegal smugglin', people strugglin'
[00:32.78] Wish they could just throw me back in the mud again
[00:34.88] Yeah, guess that's how we got here
[00:37.06] Slave trade then the diamond trade
[00:38.67] Every child's afraid when his mother and father get sprayed
[00:41.36] Forced in the army, young killer brigade
[00:43.52] Gets a new name then he give his nose glue
[00:45.61] Til' his mind can't take what he's gon' through
[00:47.86] Lookin' in that dirt for that eyes so blue
[00:49.94] Then the Royal Family, the ice goes to
[00:52.09] And this thing has to change, feelin' half-ashamed
[00:54.65] As I rap with my platinum chain when you shop for a gift for me
[00:57.49] You think about the misery
[00:58.83] The same way we made apartheid history
[01:01.08] We can do the same thing to the conflict ice
[01:03.44] But everybody wanna shine, right?
[01:04.99] Everybody wants heaven, but nobody wants dead
[01:07.05] Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed
[01:09.13] Everybody wants heaven, but nobody wants dead
[01:11.38] Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed
[01:13.47] They wanna shine on 'em, shine on 'em
[01:15.85] Shine on 'em, shine on 'em
[01:18.06] Shine on 'em, shine on 'em
[01:20.17] Shine on 'em, shine on 'em
[01:22.55] My VVS glimmers on my chest
[01:24.46] 200 thou' encrusted watch on my wrist
[01:26.82] I wonder how people starve to death
[01:28.70] When God bless the land that lacks the harvest
[01:30.94] The stone's equality, but they homes are poverty
[01:33.46] And the whole world ignores the robbery
[01:35.35] Bought my girl pretty rocks when she's mad at me
[01:37.79] Tear-drop shaped, uh, perfect clarity
[01:39.93] It shocks, so many are killed annually
[01:42.12] 'Cause of greed, lust, and pure vanity
[01:44.25] Stop talkin' and do somethin' about it
[01:45.90] Every holiday season, jewelry stores crowded
[01:48.69] Kids snatched from their homes, mutilated alive
[01:50.88] Husbands separated from wives
[01:52.72] Keep a Jesus piece to be fly
[01:54.23] But back in the day there was a time when they called us shine
[01:56.72] Everybody wants heaven, but nobody wants dead
[01:58.91] Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed
[02:01.09] Everybody wants heaven, but nobody wants dead
[02:03.22] Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed
[02:05.24] They wanna shine on 'em, shine on 'em
[02:07.77] Shine on 'em, shine on 'em
[02:09.85] Shine on 'em, shine on 'em
[02:12.13] Shine on 'em, shine on 'em
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