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Retrospect For Life
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Common
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Yo we gotta start respectin' life more y'all
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You look at your brother man you gotta see yourself
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Gotta see the God within him
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Brothers gettin' changed real quick over nothin'
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We losin' too many of ours, gotta recreate y'all, yo check it
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Knowin' you the best part of life, do I have the right to take yours
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'Cause I created you irresponsibly
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Subconsciously knowin' the act I was a part of
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The start of somethin', I'm not ready to bring into the world
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Had myself believin' I was sterile
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I look into mother's stomach, wonder if you are a boy or a girl
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Turnin' this woman's womb into a tomb
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But she and I agree, a seed we don't need
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You would've been much more than a mouth to feed
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But someone, I woulda fed this information I read
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To someone, my life for you I woulda had to leave
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Instead I lead you to death
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I'm sorry for takin' your first breath, first step, and first cry
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But I wasn't prepared mentally nor financially
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Havin' a child shouldn't have to bring out the man in me
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Plus I wanted you to be raised within' a family
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I don't wanna, go through the drama of havin' a baby's momma
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Weekend visits and buyin' J's ain't gon' make me a father
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For a while bearing a child is somethin' I never wanted to do
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For me to live forever I can only do that through you
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Nerve I got to talk about them niggaz with a gun
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Must have really thought I was God to take the life of my son
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I could have sacrificed goin' out
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To think my homies who did it I used to joke about, from now on
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I'ma use self control instead of birth control
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'Cause 315 dollars ain't worth your soul
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315 dollars ain't worth your soul
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315 dollars ain't worth it
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I, never dreamed you'd leave, in summer
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You said you would be here when it rained
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(Common)
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Yo, why didn't you stay?
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Seeing you as a present and a gift in itself
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You had our child in you, I probably never feel what you felt
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But you dealt with it like the strong black woman you are
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Through our trials and tribulations, child's elimination
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An integration of thoughts I feel about the situation
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Back and forth my feelings was pacin'
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Happy deep down but not joyed enough to have it
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But even that's a lie in less than two weeks, we was back at it
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Is this unprotected love or safe to say it's lust
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Bustin', more than the sweat in somebody you trust
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Or is it that we don't trust each other enough
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And believe, havin' this child'll make us have to stay together
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Girl I want you in my life 'cause you have made it better
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Thinkin' we all in love 'cause we can spend a day together
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We talkin' spendin' the rest of our lives
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It's too many black women that can say they mothers
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But can't say that they wives
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I wouldn't chose any other to mother my understanding
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But I want our parenthood to come from planning
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It's so much in my life that's undone
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We gotta see eye to eye, about family, before we can become one
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If you had decided to have it the situation I wouldn't run from
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But I'm walkin', findin' myself in my God
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So I can, discipline my son with my writin'
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Not have a judge tellin' me how and when to raise my seed
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Though his death was at our greed, with no one else to blame
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I had a book of Afrikan names, case our minds changed
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You say your period hasn't came and lately I've been sleepy
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So quit smokin' the weed and the beadies and let's have this boy
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I, never dreamed you'd leave in summer
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You said you would be here when it rained
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You said you would be here when it rained
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Ohh I, never dreamed you'd leave in summer
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Now the situation's made things change
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Things change, why, didn't you stay?
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Why didn't you stay?
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I, never dreamed you'd leave, in summer, in summer
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You said you would be here when, it rained
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When it rained, it rained
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Ohooh I, never dreamed, you'd leave in summer
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You said you wouldn't leave
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Now the situation's made things change
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Things change, why didn't you stay?
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Stay, stay, stay, stay, stay, stay, stay
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Mmm, stay, uh-uh, oh, why didn't you stay?
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