Yasiin Bey — New World Water

[Intro] There's nothing more refreshing (That cool refreshing drink) Than a cool, crisp, clean glass of water On a warm summer's day (That cool refreshing drink) Try it with your friends [Verse 1] 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 niggas Now his belly full and he about to flood somethin' So I'm throwin' rope that ain't tied to nothin' Tell your crew use the H2 in wise amounts since 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 a full week 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 tryin' 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!" [Hook 1] 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 across the sea [Verse 2] 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?) Another nation 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 hoppin' 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 [Hook 2] 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) [Outro] 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) Johnny Cash (Money) Roseanne Cash (Money) Give me cash (Money) Cold cash (Money) Cash rules everything around me Move!