Kanye West Featuring Jay-Z - Diamonds From Sierra Leone lyrics

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Diamonds are forever

They won't leave in the night

I've no fear that they might desert me

(Diamonds are forever, forever, forever)

Throw ya diamonds in the sky

If you feel the vibe

(Diamonds are forever, forever, forever)

The ROC is still alive

Everytime I rhyme

(Forever and ever!)

For ever, ever? For ever, ever? Ever, ever?

Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever?

Good morning, this ain't Vietnam still

People lose hands, legs, arms for real

Little was known of Sierra Leone

And how it connect to the diamonds we own

When I speak of diamonds in this song

I ain't talkin' bout the ones that be glown

I'm talkin' 'bout Rocafella, my home, my chain

These ain't conflict diamonds, is they Jacob?

Don't lie to me mayne

See, a part of me sayin' keep shinin'

How? When I know of the blood diamonds

Though it's thousands of miles away

Sierra Leone connect to what we go through today

Over here, it's a drug trade, we die from drugs

Over there, they die from what we buy from drugs

The diamonds, the chains, the bracelets, the charmses

I thought my Jesus piece was so harmless

'Til I seen a picture of a shorty armless

And here's the conflict

It's in a black person's soul to rock that gold

Spend ya whole life tryna get that ice

On a polar rugby it look so nice

How could somethin' so wrong make me feel so right?

Right 'fore I beat myself up like Ike

You could still throw ya Rocafella diamond tonight 'cause

(Diamonds are forever, forever, forever)

Throw ya diamonds in the sky

If you feel the vibe

(Diamonds are forever, forever, forever)

The ROC is still alive

Everytime I rhyme

(Forever and ever!)

For ever, ever? For ever, ever? Ever, ever?

Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever?

People askin' me is I'm gon' give my chain back

(Uh!)

That'll be the same day I give the game back

(Uh!)

You know the next question, "Dog 'yo, where Dame at?'

(Uh!)

This track the Indian dance to bring our rain back

(Whoo!)

'Wassup wit you a Jay, man?

(Whoo!)

Are ya'll okay, man?

(Yep!)

I got it from her 'ye damn!

The chain remians, the game is intact

The name is mine, I'll take blame for that

The pressure's on but guess who ain't gon' crack?

Pardon me! I had to laugh at that

How could you falter when you're the Rock of Gibralter

I had to get of the boat so I could walk on water

This ain't no tall order, this is nothin' to me

Difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week

I do this in my sleep, I sell kilos of coke

(So?)

I'm guessing' I can sell CD's

I'm not a business man

I'm a business, man!

Let me handle my business, damn!

Kanyeez you got me, Freeway and Foxy

YG', Teairra Mari, Petey watch me

Bleek could be one hit away his whole career

As long as I'm alive, he's a millionaire

And even if I die, he's in my will somewhere

So he can just kick back and chill somewhere

(Oh, yeah)

He don't even have to write rhymes

The Dynasty like my money last three lifetimes

Shirley Bassey was in the rear sayin' exactly

What I was sayin' practically me whole career

The diamond is forever, I been mindin' this forever

Now the Louis Vuitton Don's timin' couldn't be better

People lined up to see the Titanic sinkin'

Instead we rose from the ash like a Phoenix

If you watin' for the end, the dynasty signed

And what seemed like forever is a mighty long time

I'm young

Goodnight!