Shine On (Album Version|Explicit)-Nas

[ti:Shine On (explicit Album Version Explicit)] [ar:Nas] [al:Can't Forget About You (Int'l Maxi)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Shine On (Album Version|Explicit) - Nas [00:08.96]Everybody wants heaven but nobody wants dead [00:10.99]Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed [00:13.01]Everybody wants heaven but nobody wants dead [00:15.30]Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed [00:17.41]They wanna shine on shine on shine on shine on [00:21.78]Shine on shine on shine on shine on yeah [00:26.09]They dug me out the soil in the mines of the motherland [00:28.59]Now I'm misplaced one hand to another hand [00:30.66]Illegal smugglin' people strugglin' [00:32.56]Wish they could just throw me back in the mud again [00:35.03]Yeah guess that's how we got here [00:37.06]Slave trade then the diamond trade [00:38.69]Every child's afraid when [00:39.92]His mother and father get sprayed [00:41.47]Forced in the army young killer brigade [00:43.49]Gets a new name then he give his nose glue [00:45.73]Til' his mind can't take what he's gon' through [00:47.79]Lookin' in that dirt for that eyes so blue [00:49.86]Then the Royal Family the ice goes to [00:52.11]And this thing has to change feelin' half-ashamed [00:54.21]As I rap with my platinum chain when you [00:56.71]Shop for a gift for me [00:57.83]You think about the misery the same way [00:59.54]We made apartheid history [01:00.34] [01:01.00]We can do the same thing to the conflict ice [01:03.35]But everybody wanna shine right [01:05.10]Everybody wants heaven but nobody wants dead [01:07.16]Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed [01:09.28]Everybody wants heaven but nobody wants dead [01:11.46]Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed [01:13.60]They wanna shine on shine on shine on shine on [01:18.04]Shine on shine on shine on shine on [01:22.42]My VVS glimmers on my chest [01:24.57]200 thou' encrusted watch on my wrist [01:26.83]I wonder how people starve to death [01:28.75]When God bless the land that lacks the harvest [01:31.04]The stone's equality but they homes are poverty [01:33.61]And the whole world ignores the robbery [01:35.45]Bought my girl pretty rocks when she's mad at me [01:37.95]Tear-drop shaped uh perfect clarity [01:40.01]It shocks so many are killed annually [01:42.13]'Cause of greed lust and pure vanity [01:44.17]Stop talkin' and do somethin' about it [01:46.25]Every holiday season jewelry stores crowded [01:48.72]Kids snatched from their homes mutilated alive [01:50.97]Husbands separated from wives [01:52.28]Keep the Jesus piece to be fly [01:54.28]But back in the day there was [01:55.83]A time when they called us shine [01:57.21]Everybody wants heaven but nobody wants dead [01:59.06]Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed [02:01.18]Everybody wants heaven but nobody wants dead [02:03.32]Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed [02:05.46]They wanna shine on shine on shine on shine on [02:09.77]Shine on shine on shine on shine on