Blood Diamond movie - Shine on 'Em lyrics

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Song by Nas<br /><br>

[Intro: Nas]<br>

They wanna shine on 'em<br>

Shine on 'em X 7<br>

Yeah<br>

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[Verse 1: Nas]<br>

They dug me out the soil in the Mines of the Motherland<br>

Now I'm misplaced, one hand to another hand<br>

Illegal smugglin', people strugglin'<br>

Wish they could just throw me back in the mud again<br>

Yeah, guess that's how we got here<br>

Slave Trade then the Diamond Trade<br>

Every child's afraid<br>

When his Mother and Father get sprayed<br>

Forced in the Army, young killer Brigade<br>

Gets a new name and then he give his nose glue<br>

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

Lookin' in that dirt for that ice so blue<br>

Then The Royal Family, the ice goes to<br>

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

As I rap with my Platinum chain<br>

When you shop for a gift for me<br>

You think about the misery?<br>

The same way we made Apartheid History<br>

We can do the same thing to the conflict ice<br>

But everybody wanna shine, right?<br>

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[HooK: Nas]<br>

Everybody wants Heaven but nobody wants dead<br>

Everybody wants Diamonds without the Bloodshed<br>

Everybody wants Heaven but nobody wants dead<br>

Everybody wants Diamonds without the Bloodshed<br>

They wanna Shine on 'em<br>

Shine on 'em X 7<br>

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[Verse 2: Nas]<br>

My VVS glimmers on my chest<br>

200-thou-encrusted watch on my wrist<br>

I wonder how people starve to death<br>

When God bless the land that lacks the harvest<br>

The stone's equality, but they homes are poverty<br>

And the whole world ignores the robbery<br>

Bought my girl pretty rocks when she's mad at me<br>

Tear-drop shaped, uh, perfect Clarity<br>

It shocks, so many are killed annually<br>

'Cause of greed, lust, and pure Vanity<br>

Stop talkin' and do somethin' about it<br>

Every Holiday Season, Jewelry stores crowded<br>

Kids snatched from their homes, Mutilated alive<br>

Husbands separated from wives, keep a Jesus piece to be fly<br>

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

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[HooK: Nas]<br>

Everybody wants Heaven but nobody wants dead<br>

Everybody wants Diamonds without the Bloodshed<br>

Everybody wants Heaven but nobody wants dead<br>

Everybody wants Diamonds without the Bloodshed<br>

They wanna shine on 'em<br>

Shine on 'em X 7<br>

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