Shine On

Everybody wants heaven, but nobody wants dead

Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed

Everybody wants heaven, but nobody wants dead

Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed

They wanna shine on, shine on, shine on, shine on

Shine on, shine on, shine on, shine on

They dug me out the soil in the mines of the motherland

Now I'm misplaced, one hand to another hand

Illegal smugglin', people strugglin'

Wish they could just throw me back in the mud again

Yeah, guess that's how we got here

Slave trade, then the diamond trade

Every child's afraid when his mother and father get sprayed

Forced in the army, young killer brigade

Gets a new name, then he give his nose glue

Till his mind can't take what he's gon' through

Lookin' in that dirt for that ice, so blue

Then the Royal Family, the ice goes to

And this thing has to change, feelin' half-ashamed

As I rap with my platinum chain

When you shop for a gift for me, you think about the misery

The say way we made apartheid history

We can do the same thing to the conflict ice

But everybody wanna shine, right?

Everybody wants heaven, but nobody wants dead

Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed

Everybody wants heaven, but nobody wants dead

Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed

They wanna shine on, shine on, shine on, shine on

Shine on, shine on, shine on, shine on

My VVS glimmers on my chest

Two hundred thou' encrusted watch on my wrist

I wonder how people starve to death

When God bless the land that lacks the harvest

The stone's equality, but they homes a poverty

And the whole world ignores the robbery

Bought my girl pretty rocks when she mad at me

Tear-drop shaped, uh, perfect clarity

It shocks, so many are killed annually

'Cause of greed, lust and pure vanity

Stop talkin' and do something about it

Every holiday season, jewelry stores crowded

Kids snatched from their homes, mutilated alive

Husbands separated from wives

Keep the Jesus piece to be fly

But back in the day there was a time when they called us shine

Everybody wants heaven, but nobody wants dead

Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed

Everybody wants heaven, but nobody wants dead

Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed

They wanna shine on, shine on, shine on, shine on

Shine on, shine on, shine on, shine on