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Shine On Em'
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Everybody wants heaven but nobody wants dead
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Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed
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Everybody wants heaven but nobody wants dead
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Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed
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They wanna shine on, shine on, shine on, shine on
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Shine on, shine on, shine on, shine on, yeah
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They dug me out the soil in the mines of the motherland
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Now I'm misplaced, one hand to another hand
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Illegal smugglin', people strugglin'
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Wish they could just throw me back in the mud again
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Yeah, guess that's how we got here
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Slave trade then the diamond trade
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Every child's afraid when
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His mother and father get sprayed
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Forced in the army, young killer brigade
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Gets a new name then he give his nose glue
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Til' his mind can't take what he's gon' through
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Lookin' in that dirt for that eyes so blue
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Then the Royal Family, the ice goes to
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And this thing has to change, feelin' half-ashamed
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As I rap with my platinum chain when you shop for a gift for me
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You think about the misery, the same way we made apartheid history
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We can do the same thing to the conflict ice
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But everybody wanna shine, right?
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Everybody wants heaven but nobody wants dead
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Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed
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Everybody wants heaven but nobody wants dead
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Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed
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They wanna shine on, shine on, shine on, shine on
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Shine on, shine on, shine on, shine on
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My VVS glimmers on my chest
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200 thou' encrusted watch on my wrist
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I wonder how people starve to death
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When God bless the land that lacks the harvest
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The stone's equality, but they homes are poverty
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And the whole world ignores the robbery
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Bought my girl pretty rocks when she's mad at me
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Tear-drop shaped, uh, perfect clarity
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It shocks, so many are killed annually
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'Cause of greed, lust, and pure vanity
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Stop talkin' and do somethin' about it
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Every holiday season, jewelry stores crowded
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Kids snatched from their homes, mutilated alive
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Husbands separated from wives, keep the Jesus piece to be fly
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But back in the day there was a time when they called us shine
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Everybody wants heaven but nobody wants dead
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Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed
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Everybody wants heaven but nobody wants dead
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Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed
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They wanna shine on, shine on, shine on, shine on
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Shine on, shine on, shine on, shine on
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