Common - Retrospect For Life (feat. Lauryn Hill) Lyrics
Yo, we gotta start respectin life more y'allYou look at your brother man you gotta see yourselfGotta see the God within himBrothers gettin changed real quick over nothinWe losin too many of oursGotta recreate y'allYo, check itKnowin you the best part of life, do I have the right to take yoursCause I created you, irresponsiblySubconciously knowin the act I was a part ofThe start of somethin, I'm not ready to bring into the worldHad myself believin I was sterileI look into mother's stomach, wonder if you are a boy or a girlTurnin this woman's womb into a tombBut she and I agree, a seed we don't needYou would've been much more than a mouth to feedBut someone, I woulda fed this information I readto someone, my life for you I woulda had to leaveInstead I lead you to deathI'm sorry for takin your first breath, first step, and first cryBut I wasn't prepared mentally nor financiallyHavin a child shouldn't have to bring out the man in mePlus I wanted you to be raised within a familyI don't wanna, go through the drama of havin a baby's mommaWeekend visits and buyin J's ain't gon' make me a fatherFor a while bearing a child is somethin I never wanted to doFor me to live forever I can only do that through youNerve I got to talk about them niggaz with a gunMust have really thought I was God to take the life of my sonI could have sacrificed goin outTo think my homies who did it I used to joke about, from now onI'ma use self control instead of birth controlCause t'ree hunderd 'n' fi'teen dolla's ain't worth your soult'ree hunderd 'n' fi'teen dolla's ain't worth your soult'ree hunderd
