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[Man Singing & Humming in Foreign Language]
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[Intro: Nas]
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They wanna shine on 'em
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Shine on 'em [x7]
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Yeah
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[Verse 1: Nas]
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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
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When 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 and 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 ice 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
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When you shop for a gift for me
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You think about the misery?
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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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[HooK: Nas]
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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 'em
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Shine on 'em [x7]
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[Verse 2: Nas]
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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 a 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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[HooK: Nas]
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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 'em
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Shine on 'em [x7]
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[Man Singing & Humming in Foreign Language]
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