[Common]
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

We brothers gettin´ changed real quick over nothin´
We losin´ too many of ours
Gotta recreate y´all
Yo, check it

[Common]
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 would´ve 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 niggas 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 dollars ain´t worth your soul
315 dollars ain´t worth your soul
315 dollars ain´t worth it

[Lauryn Hill]
I never dreamed you´d leave in summer
You said you would be here when it rained
Why didn´t you stay

[Common]
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 integration 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 rod
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 African 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

[Lauryn Hill]
I never dreamed you´d leave in summer
You said you would be here when it rained
Why didn´t you stay
I never dreamed you´d leave in summer
Now the situations made things change
Why didn´t you stay