
Originally Posted by
Mos Def
New World Water make the tide rise high
Come inland and make your house go "Bye!"
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'ma throw a 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.
Competing with the next man for higher playing 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.
When it's hot, summertime you fiend for it.
You gotta put it in the iron you steamin with.
It's what they dress wounds and treat diseases with-
The rich and poor, black and white got need for it
And everybody in the world can agree with this
Consumption promotes health and easiness
Go too long without it on this earth and you leavin it
Americans wastin it on some leisure shit.
And other nations be desperately seekin it.
Bacteria washing up on they beaches
Don't drink the water? Son, they can't wash they feet with it!
Young babies in perpetual neediness
Epidemics hopppin up off the petri dish
Control centers try to play it all secretive
To avoid public panic and freakiness.
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.
Your moms, wife, and baby girl is drinkin it.
Up north and down south is drinkin it.
You should just have to go to your sink for it.
The cash registers is goin "cha-chink!" for it.
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.
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