[ti:New World Water] [ar:Mos Def] [al:Black On Both Sides] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]New World Water - Mos Def [00:01.97]Lyrics by:D. Smith [00:03.95]Composed by:D. Smith [00:05.92]There's nothing more refreshing [00:07.46]That cool refreshing drink [00:09.06]Crisp clean glass of water [00:11.99]On a warm Summer's day [00:14.56]That cool refreshing drink [00:16.71]Try it with your friends [00:19.32]New world water make the tide rise high [00:21.85]Come Inland and make your house go bye [00:24.25]Fools done upset the old man river [00:26.58]Made him carry slave ships and fed him dead n***a [00:29.12]Now his belly full and he about to flood somethin' [00:31.33]So I'mma throw a rope that ain't tied to nothin' [00:33.86]Tell your crew use the H2 in wise amounts since [00:36.07]It's the new world water and every drop counts [00:38.55]You can laugh and take it as a joke if you wanna [00:40.94]But it don't rain a full week some Summers [00:43.35]And it's about to get real wild in the half [00:45.70]You be buying evian just to take a f**kin' bath [00:48.12]Heads is acting wild sippin' poor puffin' dank [00:50.49]Competin with the next man for higher playin' rank [00:52.82]See I ain't got time try to be big hank [00:55.20]F**k a bank I need a twenty-year water tank [00:57.36]'Cause while these knuckleheads [00:58.33]Is out here sweatin they goods [00:59.93]The sun is sitting in the treetops burnin' the woods [01:02.27]And as the flames from the blaze get higher and higher [01:04.60]They say don't drink the water [01:06.09]We need it for the fire [01:07.30]New York is drinkin' it [01:08.62]New world water [01:09.45]Now all of California is drinkin' it [01:11.01]New world water [01:11.82]Way up north and down south is drinkin' it [01:13.49]New world water [01:14.28]Used to have minerals and zinc in it [01:15.89]New world water [01:16.43]Now they say it got lead and stink in it [01:18.24]New world water [01:18.98]Fluorocarbons and monoxide [01:20.34]Push the water table lopside [01:21.79]Used to be free now it cost you a fee [01:23.85]'Cause oil tankers spill they [01:24.97]Load as they roam 'cross the sea [01:26.34]Man you gotta cook with it [01:27.79]Bathe and clean with it [01:28.85]That's right [01:29.25]When it's hot Summertime you fiend for it [01:31.30]Let 'em know [01:31.66]You gotta put it in the iron you steamin' with [01:33.61]That's right [01:33.96]It's what they dress wounds and treat diseases with [01:35.91]Shout it out [01:36.56]The rich and poor black and white got need for it [01:38.31]That's right [01:38.81]And everybody in the world can agree with this [01:40.76]Let 'em know [01:41.27]Consumption promotes health and easiness [01:42.95]That's right [01:43.37]Go too long without it on this earth and you leavin' it [01:45.50]Shout it out [01:46.04]Americans wastin it on some leisure s**t [01:48.01]Say word [01:48.54]And other nations be desperately seekin it [01:50.35]Let 'em know [01:50.86]Bacteria washing up on they beaches [01:52.66]Say word [01:53.12]Don't drink the water [01:53.84]Son they can't wash they feet with it [01:55.17]Let 'em know [01:55.65]Young babies in perpetual neediness [01:57.39]Say word [01:58.02]Epidemics hopppin up off the petri dish [01:59.97]Let 'em know [02:00.40]Control centers try to play it all secretive [02:02.22]Say word [02:02.85]To avoid public panic and freakiness [02:04.92]There are places where TB is common as TV [02:07.18]'Cause foreign-based companies go and get greedy [02:09.64]The type of cats who pollute the whole shore line [02:11.93]Have it purified sell it for a dollar twenty-five [02:14.32]Now the world is drinkin' it [02:16.05]Your moms wife and baby girl is drinkin' it [02:18.11]New world water [02:18.82]Up north and down south is drinkin' it [02:20.38]New world water [02:21.18]You should just have to go to your sink for it [02:22.98]New world water [02:23.59]The cash registers is goin cha-chink for it [02:25.43]New world water [02:26.02]Fluorocarbons and monoxide [02:27.36]Got the fish lookin' cockeyed [02:28.94]Used to be free now it cost you a fee [02:31.10]'Cause it's all about gettin' that cash money [02:33.43]Said it's all about gettin' that cash money [02:35.82]Said it's all about gettin' that cash money [02:38.22]Said it's all about gettin' that cash money [02:40.58]Said it's all about gettin' that cash money [02:43.06]Said it's all about gettin' that cash money [02:45.42]Said it's all about gettin' that cash money [02:47.82]Said it's all about gettin' that cash money [02:50.19]Said it's all about gettin' that cash money [02:52.56]Said it's all about gettin' that cash money [02:54.99]Johnny cash money [02:56.27]Roseland cash money [02:57.42]Give me cash money [02:58.56]Cold cash money [02:59.76]Johnny cash money [03:00.94]Roseland cash money [03:02.16]Give me cash money [03:03.44]Cold cash money [03:04.56]Johnny cash money [03:05.74]Roseland cash money [03:07.60]Cash rules everything around me [03:09.13]Move [03:09.64]Move [03:10.20]Move [03:10.75]Move