Retrospect for Life-Common

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具] [offset:0] [00:00.17]Yo we gotta start respectin life more y'all [00:03.17] [00:04.20]You look at your brother man you gotta see yourself [00:06.68] [00:07.28]Gotta see the God within him [00:08.59] [00:10.43]Brothers gettin changed real quick over nothin [00:12.75] [00:14.59]We losin too many of ours [00:16.02] [00:17.10]Gotta recreate y'all [00:18.33] [00:19.09]Yo check it [00:20.88] [00:22.58]Knowin you the best part of life do I have the right to take yours [00:25.64]Cause I created you irresponsibly [00:28.15]Subconciously knowin the act I was a part of [00:30.41]The start of somethin I'm not ready to bring into the world [00:33.80]Had myself believin I was sterile [00:35.80]I look into mother's stomach wonder if you are a boy or a girl [00:39.34]Turnin this woman's womb into a tomb [00:41.39]But she and I agree a seed we don't need [00:44.30]You would've been much more than a mouth to feed [00:46.85]But someone I woulda fed this information I read [00:49.63]To someone my life for you I woulda had to leave [00:52.79]Instead I lead you to death [00:54.71]I'm sorry for takin your first breath first step and first cry [00:58.32]But I wasn't prepared mentally nor financially [01:00.77]Havin a child shouldn't have to bring out the man in me [01:03.56]Plus I wanted you to be raised within a family [01:05.95]I don't wanna go through the drama of havin a baby's momma [01:08.93]Weekend visits and buyin J's ain't gon' make me a father [01:11.86]For a while bearing a child is somethin I never wanted to do [01:14.73]For me to live forever I can only do that through you [01:17.29]Nerve I got to talk about them n***az with a gun [01:20.07]Must have really thought I was God to take the life of my son [01:22.74]I could have sacrificed goin out [01:24.59]To think my homies who did it I used to joke about from now on [01:28.26]I'ma use self control instead of birth control [01:30.68] [01:31.92]Cause 315 ain't worth your soul [01:33.48] [01:34.90]315 ain't worth your soul [01:36.38]315 ain't worth it [01:37.15] [01:38.32]I never dreamed you'd leave in summer [01:46.69] [01:50.05]You said you would be here when it rained [01:56.81] [01:57.41]Yo [01:57.63] [01:58.34]Why didn't you stay [02:00.34]Seeing you as a present and a gift in itself [02:03.18]You had our child in you I probably never feel what you felt [02:06.29]But you dealt with it like the strong black woman you are [02:08.99]Through our trials and tribulations child's elimination [02:12.05]An intergration of thoughts I feel about the situation [02:15.04]Back and forth my feelings was pacin [02:17.10]Happy deep down but not joyed enough to have it [02:19.59]But even that's a lie in less than two weeks we was back at it [02:22.68]Is this unprotected love or safe to say it's lust [02:25.46]Bustin more than the sweat in somebody you trust [02:28.41]Or is it that we don't trust each other enough [02:30.72]And believe havin this child'll make us have to stay together [02:33.81]Girl I want you in my life cause you have made it better [02:36.54]Thinkin we all in love cause we can spend a day together [02:39.33]We talkin spendin the rest of our lives [02:41.42]It's too many black women that can say they mothers [02:43.31]But can't say that they wives [02:44.70]I wouldn't chose any other to mother my understanding [02:47.49]But I want our Parenthood to come from Planning [02:49.71]It's so much in my life that's undone [02:51.91]We gotta see eye to eye about family before we can become one [02:55.45]If you had decided to have it the situation I wouldn't run from [02:59.02]But I'm walkin findin myself in my God [03:01.13]So I can discipline my son with my writin [03:03.41]Not have a judge tellin me how and when to raise my seed [03:06.53]Though his death was at our greed with no one else to blame [03:09.17]I had a book of Afrikan names case our minds changed [03:11.90]You say your period hasn't came and lately I've been sleepy [03:14.83]So quit smokin the w**d and the beadies and let's have this boy [03:17.60]I never dreamed you'd leave in summer [03:24.37] [03:28.32]You said you would be here when it rained [03:35.62]You said you would be here when it rained [03:38.43]Ohh I never dreamed you'd leave in summer [03:47.24] [03:50.10]Now the situation's made things change [03:56.56]Things change [03:58.27]Why didn't you stay [04:02.94] [04:04.57]Why didn't you stay [04:06.50] [04:12.08]I never dreamed you'd leave in summer [04:19.95]In summer [04:23.08]You said you would be here when it rained [04:30.37]When it rained it rained [04:33.96]Ohhhohh I never dreamed you'd leave in summer [04:42.38]You said you wouldn't leave [04:43.84] [04:44.61]Now the situation's made things change [04:51.48]Things change why didn't you stay [04:55.60] [04:58.57]Stay stay stay stay stay stay stay [05:00.57] [05:01.47]Mmmmm stayyy [05:03.21] [05:05.99]Uh-uh [05:06.03] [05:10.32]Ohh why didn't you stay