New World Water Lyrics - Black On Both Sides - Mos Def

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 

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 nigga 

Now his belly full and he about to flood something 

So I'ma throw a rope that ain't tied to nothing 

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 fucking bath 

Heads is acting wild, sipping 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 sweating they goods 

The sun is sitting in the treetops burning 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 drinking it (New World Water) 

Now all of California is drinking it (New World Water) 

Way up north and down south is drinking 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 (That's right) 

When it's hot, summertime you fiend for it (Let em know) 

You gotta put it in the iron you steaming 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 leaving it (Shout it out) 

Americans wasting it on some leisure shit (Say word?) 

And other nations be desperately seeking 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 hopping 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 

Now the world is drinking it 

Your moms, wife, and baby girl is drinking it 

Up north and down south is drinking it 

You should just have to go to your sink for it 

The cash registers is going "cha-chink!" for it 

Fluorocarbons and monoxide 

Got the fish looking cockeyed 

Used to be free now it cost you a fee 

Cause it's all about getting that cash (Money) 

Said it's all about getting that cash (Money) 

Johny cash (Money) 

Roseland cash (Money) 

Give me cash (Money) 

Cold cash (Money) 

Cash rules everything around me 

Move!