[Intro: Lauryn Hill]
 If you down with the rich man, and that can be rich in anything,
 Don’t you take too much,
 If you laugh at a poor man, and that can be poor in anything,
 Don’t you laugh too much,
 If you tryin to be rich man, and that can be rich in anything
 Don’t you take too much,
 And if you need to be needed, and you’re lookin’ for purpose,
 Just remember, don’t you need too much…

[Hook: Shadia Mansour]
 If you take something you, don’t need, and keep it
 Then you started from somebody else who’s hungry
 Everything that you do, is everything you are
 Everything that I am, is everything you ever need.

[Verse 1: Lowkey]
 Money can buy power, but it can’t buy respect
 Money can’t buy sleep, but it can buy a bed
 Money can’t buy you love, but it can buy 
 Do you posses money or by money are you possessed?
 Money can buy a house, but it can’t buy a home
 So even with money you still feel all alone
 Money can buy you friends, but it can’t buy family
 Money can’t make you happy, that’s just a fallacy
 It can buy a bath, but it can’t buy purity
 It can buy bodyguards, but it can’t buy security
 While people around the world starve, I eat
 Cause money can buy war, but it can’t buy peace
 Some do everything and anything to get the p’s
 The society we livin’ in, it’s a necessity
 It’s got the power to turn your best friends to enemies
 It’s funny cause money doesn’t follow us when we leave.

[Hook: Shadia Mansour]
 If you take something you, don’t need, and keep it
 Then you started from somebody else who’s hungry
 Everything that you do, is everything you are
 Everything that I am, is everything you ever need.

[Verse 2: Lowkey]
 Does happiness live in a mansion with a swimming pool?
 I know people with plenty of money that are miserable
 We all need to earn in this world we live
 Most work for it, some still, but many worship it
 Some sell poison for it, some seek employment for it
 We need it to survive, so some clean the toilets for it
 I need papes to live but never will I live for papes
 Abolish the Queen, I don’t wanna see that witches face
 Many sell their soul for it, no not me
 Some will try to tell you that it doesn’t grow on trees
 I heard the sayin said, many a time, but they were wrong
 Cause if it doesn’t tell me where do you get the paper from?
 Most think they will be happy if they only had more of it
 Some wasted, some feel more important because they’re born with it
 Some have got the nerve to say you’re fraudulent for forging it
 The [bad word] is you don’t need a fortune to be fortunate.

[Hook: Shadia Mansour]
 If you take something you, don’t need, and keep it
 Then you started from somebody else who’s hungry
 Everything that you do, is everything you are
 Everything that I am, is everything you’ll ever need.