[Produced by Salaam Remi]

[Hook]

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 'em, shine on 'em, shine on 'em, shine on 'em

Shine on 'em, shine on 'em, shine on 'em, shine on 'em

[Verse: 1]

Yeah, they dug me out the soil and the mines of the motherland

Now I'm displaced, 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 and the diamond trade

Every child's afraid when his mother and father get sprayed

Forced in the army, young killer brigade

Gets a new name, then he gets his nose glued

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

Lookin' in the dirt for that ice so blue

Then the royal family the ice go to

And this thing has to change, feelin' half ashamed

As I rap with my platinum chain

When you shop for me, you think about the misery?

The same way we made Apartheid history

We can do the same way to the conflict ice

But everybody wanna shine, right?

[Hook]

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 'em, shine on 'em, shine on 'em, shine on 'em

Shine on 'em, shine on 'em, shine on 'em, shine on 'em (uh, uh)

[Verse: 2]

My VVS glimmers on my chest

200 thou' encrusted watch on my wrist

I wonder how how people starve to death

When God blessed the land that lacks the harvest

The stones are quality, but their homes are poverty

And the whole world ignores the robbery

Bought my girl pretty rocks, but she mad at me

Tear drop shape, ugh, 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 they homes, mutilated alive

Husbands separated from wives

Keep a Jesus piece to be fly

But there was a time back in the day when they called that shine

[Hook]

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 'em, shine on 'em, shine on 'em, shine on 'em

Shine on 'em, shine on 'em, shine on 'em, shine on 'em

[Outro]

*Incomprehensible singing*