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New World Water
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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Mos Def
Mos Def
Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Dante Smith
Dante Smith
Songwriter
Mos Def
Mos Def
Songwriter
Psycho Les
Psycho Les
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Psycho Les
Psycho Les
Producer

Lyrics

There's nothing more refreshing (that cool refreshing drink) Than a clear, crisp, clean glass of water On a warm summer's day (That cool refreshing drink) Try it with your friends New World Water make the tide rise high Come inland and make your house go "Bye" (My house!) Fools done upset the Old Man River Made him carry slave ships and fed him dead niggers Now his belly full and he about to flood somethin' So I'ma throw rope that ain't tied to nothin' Tell your crew use the H2 in wise amounts since It's the New World Water; and every drop counts You can laugh and take it as a joke if you wanna But it don't rain for four weeks some summers And it's about to get real wild in the half You be buying Evian just to take a fuckin bath Heads is acting wild, sippin poor, puffin dank Competin' with the next man for higher playin' rank See I ain't got time try to be Big Hank Fuck a bank; I need a twenty-year water tank 'Cause while these knuckleheads is out here sweatin they goods The sun is sitting in the treetops burnin the woods And as the flames from the blaze get higher and higher They say, "Don't 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) Fluorocarbons and monoxide Push the water table lopside Used to be free now it cost you a fee 'Cause oil tankers spill they load as they roam cross the sea Man, you gotta cook with it, bathe and clean with it (That's right) When it's hot, summertime you fiend for it (Let em know) You gotta put it in the iron you steamin with (That's right) It's what they dress wounds and treat diseases with (Shout it out) The rich and poor, black and white got need for it (That's right) And everybody in the world can agree with this (Let em know) Consumption promotes health and easiness (That's 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?) Don't drink the water, son they can't wash they feet with it (Let em know) Young babies in perpetual 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 TV 'Cause foreign-based companies go and get greedy The type of cats who pollute the whole shore line Have it purified, sell it for a dollar twenty-five Now the world is drinkin it (New World Water) Your moms, wife, and baby girl is drinkin it (New World Water) Up north and down south is drinkin it (New World Water) You should just have to go to your sink for it (New World Water) The cash registers is goin "cha-chink!" for it (New World Water) Fluorocarbons and monoxide Got the fish lookin cockeyed Used to be free now it cost you a fee 'Cause it's all about gettin that cash (Money) Said it's all about gettin that cash (Money) Said it's all about gettin that cash (Money) Said it's all about gettin that cash (Money) Said it's all about gettin that cash (Money) Said it's all about gettin that cash (Money) Said it's all about gettin that cash (Money) Said it's all about gettin that cash (Money) Said it's all about gettin that cash (Money) Said it's all about gettin that cash (Money) Johny cash (Money) Rosanne Cash (Money) Give me cash (Money) Cold cash (Money) Johny cash (Money) Rosanne Cash (Money) Give me cash (Money) Cold cash (Money) Cash rules everything around me Move!
Writer(s): Lester Fernandez, Dante Smith Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
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