New World Water Lyrics

[Hook 1]
New York is drinkin' it (New World Water)
Now all of California is drinkin' it (New World Water)
Way up North and Down South is drinkin' 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 across the sea

[Verse 2]
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 steamin' 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 leavin' it (Shout it out)
Americans wastin' it on some leisure shit (Say word?)
Another nation be desperately seekin' 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 hoppin' 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

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New World Water featured on Mos Def’s 1999 album Black on Both Sides and was produced by Psycho Les of the Beatnuts.
The song itself is a double entendre, the second meaning being about politics, its vitality in large arenas in society, and its subsequence manipulation and corruption by a few to control the many.

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October 12, 1999
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