Mos Def - New World Water Lyrics
[mos def]Theres nothing more refreshing (that cool refreshing drink)Than a cool, crisp, clean glass of waterOn a warm summers day (that cool refreshing drink)Try it with your friendsNew world water make the tide rise highCome in and itll make your house go bye (my house!)Fools done upset the old man riverMade him carry slave ships and fed him dead niggaNow his belly full and he about to flood somethinSo ima throw a rope that aint tied to nothinTil your crew use the h2 in wise amounts sinceIts the new world water; and every drop countsYou can laugh and take it as a joke if you wannaBut it dont rain for four weeks some summersAnd its about to get real wild in the halfYou be buying evian just to take a *****in bathHeads is acting wild, sippin poor, puffin dankCompetin with the next man, but how your playa rank?See I aint got time try to be big hank,***** a bank; I need a twenty-year water tankCause while these knuckleheads is out here sweatin they goodsThe sun is sitting in the treetops burnin the woodsAnd as the flames from the blaze get higher and higherThey say, dont drink the water! we need it for the fire!New york is drinkin it (new world water)Now all of california is drinkin it (new world water)Way up north and down south is drinkin it (new world water)Used to have minerals and zinc in it (new world water)Now they say it got lead and stink in it (new world water)Four carbons and monoxidePush the water table lopsideUsed to be free now it cost you a feeCause all things fully loaded they roam cross the seaMan, you gotta cook with it, bathe and clean with it (thats right)When its hot, summertime you fiend for it (let em know)You gotta put it in the iron you steamin with (thats right)Its what they dress wounds and treat diseases with (shout it out0The rich and poor, black and white got need for it (thats right)And everybody in the world can agree with this (let em know)Assumption promotes health and easiness (thats right)Go too long without it on this earth and you leavin it (shout it out)Americans wastin it on some leisure shit (say word? )And other nations be desperately seekin it (let em know)Bacteria washing up on they beaches (say word? )Dont drink the water, son they cant wash they feet with it (let em know)Young babies and professional neediness (say word? )Epidemics hopppin up off the petri dish (let em know)Control centers try to play it all secretive (say word? )To avoid public panic and freakiness (let em know)There are places where tb is common as tvCause foreign-based companies go and get greedyThe type of cats who pollute the whole shore lineHave it purified, sell it for a dollar twenty-fiveNow the world is drinkin itYour moms, wife, and baby girl is drinkin itUp north and down south is drinkin itYou just have to go to your sink for itThe cash registers is goin to chink for itFour carbons and monoxideGot the fish lookin *****eyedUsed to be free now it cost you a feeCause its all about gettin that cash (money)Said its all about gettin that cash (money) (x9)Johny cash (money)Roseland cash (money)Give me cash (money)Cold cash (money)(repeat to fade)Cash rules everything around me,Move!
