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