Leaders

[Chorus: Stephen Marley] This one's for all the leaders Leader Let's all change the world Change the world [Chorus: Stephen Marley] This one's for all the leaders Leader Let's all change the world Change the world [Verse 1: Nas] Yeah! Got out the 600, blunted. Chicks hunt him Neighborhood know he comin' Jake hate him. Snakes could not violate him Pimps memorize his lines verbatim He reps N.Y., yo. Gives C-notes to winos Not church, it's how he tithe though He walks the tenement, sleeps at his super fly condo My kinda nigga, my Icon, my idol No certificate for this misfit who handle business The odds stacked against him, he fights back mackin' Benzes Never puts cash or ass before friendship He laughs last, as some die young, he is still existin' Somehow he got around the pitfalls of the system When he walks, we watch, when he talks, we listen. Leaders [Chorus: Stephen Marley] This one's for all the leaders Leader Let's all change the world Change the world [Chorus: Stephen Marley] This one's for all the leaders Leader Let's all change the world Change the world [Verse 2: Damian Marley] Who do I follow? (Follow) Who do I copy? (Copy) Look into the mirror, and it's you I see look at me Everything new, like it fresh from the factory Everything you do? It impact me Your lifestyle attract me, parents try distract me When I grow up, I want to be like you exactly (exactly, exactly) And as soon as I get over this acne There's no way anybody coulda stop me Me gravitate toward the aura and all the mannerism The sendin' out of orders and man start movin' busy The lockin' of the corners? The streets and all the buildings Mi love you like a father, mi ready and mi willin' Anything what you a talk is law in my dominion And mi have similar thoughts, I share the same opinions Mi have it say you smart with mi best interest at heart I'm followin' your path, yow mine when you a walk [Chorus: Stephen Marley] This one's for all the leaders Leader Let's all change the world Change the world [Chorus: Stephen Marley] This one's for all the leaders Leader Let's all change the world Change the world [Verse 3: Nas] They appeal to the conscious The Paramount, the Caesar, the monsters The grandiose, the martyrs, the hell on Earth pompous, Ellsworth Bumpy Johnsons The Harlemites, the Garveyites, black as the credit card we swipe, poppin' Dom tonight For all of mine, I can see myself back at the Audubon Malcolm on the podium, shells drop to linoleum Swipe those, place 'em on display at the Smithsonian Next to only gems that were left behind by holy men Infectious charisma of those who gave us direction The anti-sexists, resistance against oppression Progressive thinkin', ghetto speakers Protestors against the colored, only section to the Jena 6 and The Frost-Nixon, the contradiction; the cross, the crucifixion The loss we took for sinnin' on Esau's back inscription That it was written, that nothing is coincidencing They took our leaders and they lynched them [Chorus: Stephen Marley] This one's for all the leaders Leader Let's all change the world Change the world [Chorus: Stephen Marley] This one's for all the leaders Leader Let's all change the world Change the world [Outro: Stephen Marley] Change the world, change the world Change the world Change the world, change the world You change the world