Retrospect for Life - Common

Retrospect for Life LRC歌词

[00:00.515]Yo, we gotta start respectin life more y'all

[00:03.770]You look at your brother man you gotta see yourself

[00:07.042]Gotta see the God within him

[00:09.306]Brothers gettin changed real quick over nothin

[00:13.234]We losin too many of ours

[00:16.330]Gotta recreate y'all

[00:18.842]Yo, check it

[00:21.489]Knowin you the best part of life, do I have the right to take yours

[00:25.676]Cause I created you, irresponsibly

[00:28.193]Subconciously knowin the act I was a part of

[00:31.145]The start of somethin, I'm not ready to bring into the world

[00:33.876]Had myself believin I was sterile

[00:36.115]I look into mother's stomach, wonder if you are a boy or a girl

[00:39.257]Turnin this woman's womb into a tomb

[00:41.585]But she and I agree, a seed we don't need

[00:44.660]You would've been much more than a mouth to feed

[00:47.238]But someone, I woulda fed this information I read

[00:50.165]to someone, my life for you I woulda had to leave

[00:52.801]Instead I lead you to death

[00:54.660]I'm sorry for takin your first breath, first step, and first cry

[00:58.425]But I wasn't prepared mentally nor financially

[01:01.025]Havin a child shouldn't have to bring out the man in me

[01:03.601]Plus I wanted you to be raised within a family

[01:06.297]I don't wanna, go through the drama of havin a baby's momma

[01:09.297]Weekend visits and buyin J's ain't gon' make me a father

[01:11.988]For a while bearing a child is somethin I never wanted to do

[01:14.723]For me to live forever I can only do that through you

[01:17.489]Nerve I got to talk about them ****** with a gun

[01:20.145]Must have really thought I was God to take the life of my son

[01:22.822]I could have sacrificed goin out

[01:24.755]To think my homies who did it I used to joke about, from now on

[01:28.321]I'ma use self control instead of birth control

[01:30.937]Cause $315 ain't worth your soul

[01:33.757]$315 ain't worth your soul

[01:36.466]$315 ain't worth it

[01:38.761]I, never dreamed you'd leave, in summer

[01:47.458]You said you would be here when it rained

[01:57.928]Yo,why didn't you stay

[02:01.456]Seeing you as a present and a gift in itself

[02:03.328]You had our child in you, I probably never feel what you felt

[02:06.724]But you dealt with it like the strong black woman you are

[02:09.275]Through our trials and tribulations, child's elimination

[02:12.224]An intergration of thoughts I feel about the situation

[02:15.152]Back and forth my feelings was pacin

[02:17.347]Happy deep down but not joyed enough to have it

[02:19.705]But even that's a lie in less than two weeks, we was back at it

[02:23.099]Is this unprotected love or safe to say it's lust

[02:25.858]Bustin, more than the sweat in somebody you trust

[02:28.432]Or is it that we don't trust each other enough

[02:31.040]And believe, havin this child'll make us have to stay together

[02:34.072]Girl I want you in my life cause you have made it better

[02:36.688]Thinkin we all in love cause we can spend a day together

[02:39.460]We talkin spendin the rest of our lives

[02:41.560]It's too many black women that can say they mothers

[02:43.728]but can't say that they wives

[02:44.946]I wouldn't chose any other to mother my understanding

[02:47.760]But I want our Parenthood to come from Planning

[02:49.911]It's so much in my life that's undone

[02:51.784]We gotta see eye to eye, about family, before we can become one

[02:55.962]If you had decided to have it the situation I wouldn't run from

[02:58.691]But I'm walkin, findin myself in my God

[03:01.312]So I can, discipline my son with my writin

[03:04.088]Not have a judge tellin me how and when to raise my seed

[03:06.672]Though his death was at our greed, with no one else to blame

[03:09.528]I had a book of Afrikan names, case our minds changed

[03:12.344]You say your period hasn't came, and lately I've been sleepy

[03:15.024]So quit smokin the **** and the beadies and let's have this boy

[03:18.067]I, never dreamed you'd leave in summer

[03:26.490]You said you would be here when it rained

[03:36.336]You said you would be here when it rained

[03:39.041]Ohh I, never dreamed you'd leave in summer

[03:47.940]Now the situation's made things change

[03:57.575]Things change

[03:58.687]Why, didn't you stay

[04:01.807]Why didn't you stay...

[04:09.511]I, never dreamed you'd leave, in summer

[04:20.727]In summer

[04:23.247]You said you would be here when, it rained

[04:30.945]When it rained, it rained

[04:33.820]Ohhhohh I, never dreamed, you'd leave in summer

[04:43.273]You said you wouldn't leave

[04:44.575]Now the situation's made things change

[04:51.767]Things change, why didn't you stay?

[04:56.959]Stay, stay stay stay stay stay stay

[05:02.673]Mmmmm, stayyy

[05:07.198]Uh-uh

[05:09.312]Ohh why didn't you stay..