Retrospect For Life Lyrics - Singles - Common

Featuring lauryn hill 

Yo we gotta start respectin life more y'all 

You look at your brother man you gotta see yourself 

Gotta see the god within him 

Brothers gettin changed real quick over nothin 

We losin too many of ours 

Gotta recreate y'all 

Yo check it 

Knowin you the best part of life do i have the right to take yours 

Cause i created you irresponsibly 

Subconciously knowin the act i was a part of 

The start of somethin, i'm not ready to bring into the world 

Had myself believin i was sterile 

I look into mother's stomach, wonder if you are a boy or a girl 

Turnin this woman's womb into a tomb 

But she and i agree, a seed we don't need 

You would've been much more than a mouth to feed 

But someone, i woulda fed this information i read 

To someone, my life for you i woulda had to leave 

Instead i lead you to death 

I'm sorry for takin your first breath, first step, and first cry 

But i wasn't prepared mentally nor financially 

Havin a child shouldn't have to bring out the man in me 

Plus i wanted you to be raised within a family 

I don't wanna, go through the drama of havin a baby's momma 

Weekend visits and buyin j's ain't gon' make me a father 

For a while bearing a child is somethin i never wanted to do 

For me to live forever i can only do that through you 

Nerve i got to talk about them niggaz with a gun 

Must have really thought i was god to take the life of my son 

I could have sacrificed goin out 

To think my homies who did it i used to joke about, from now on 

I'ma use self control instead of birth control 

Cause $315 ain't worth your soul 

$315 ain't worth your soul 

$315 ain't worth it 

I, never dreamed you'd leave, in summer 

You said you would be here when it rained 

yo 

Why didn't you stay 

Related 

Songs You Love If You Love Nerds 

HOT SONG: A$AP Rocky - 'BABU$HKA BOI' - LYRICS 

LATEST SONG: Fat Joe, Dre, Lil Wayne - 'Pullin' - LYRICS 

Seeing you as a present and a gift in itself 

You had our child in you, i probably never feel what you felt 

But you dealt with it like the strong black woman you are 

Through our trials and tribulations, child's elimination 

An intergration of thoughts i feel about the situation 

Back and forth my feelings was pacin 

Happy deep down but not joyed enough to have it 

But even that's a lie in less than two weeks, we was back at it 

Is this unprotected love or safe to say it's lust 

Bustin, more than the sweat in somebody you trust 

Or is it that we don't trust each other enough 

And believe, havin this child'll make us have to stay together 

Girl i want you in my life cause you have made it better 

Thinkin we all in love cause we can spend a day together 

We talkin spendin the rest of our lives 

It's too many black women that can say they mothers 

But can't say that they wives 

I wouldn't chose any other to mother my understanding 

But i want our parenthood to come from planning 

It's so much in my life that's undone 

We gotta see eye to eye, about family, before we can become one 

If you had decided to have it the situation i wouldn't run from 

But i'm walkin, findin myself in my god 

So i can, discipline my son with my writin 

Not have a judge tellin me how and when to raise my seed 

Though his death was at our greed, with no one else to blame 

I had a book of afrikan names, case our minds changed 

You say your period hasn't came, and lately i've been sleepy 

So quit smokin the weed and the beadies and let's have this boy 

Photos 

I, never dreamed you'd leave in summer 

You said you would be here when it rained 

You said you would be here when it rained 

Ohh i, never dreamed you'd leave in summer 

Now the situation's made things change 

Things change 

Why, didn't you stay 

Why didn't you stay... 

I, never dreamed you'd leave, in summer 

In summer 

You said you would be here when, it rained 

When it rained, it rained 

Ohhhohh i, never dreamed, you'd leave in summer 

You said you wouldn't leave 

Now the situation's made things change 

Things change, why didn't you stay? 

Stay, stay stay stay stay stay stay 

Mmmmm, stayyy 

Uh-uh 

Ohh why didn't you stay.