Shine On Lyrics - Nas

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, yeah 

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 

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Forced in the army, young killer brigade 

Gets a new name then he give his nose glue 

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

Lookin' in that dirt for that eyes 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 same 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 

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My VVS glimmers on my chest 

200 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 are poverty 

And the whole world ignores the robbery 

Bought my girl pretty rocks when she's 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 somethin' 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