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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 |
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Gotta recreate y'all |
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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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Subconciously 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 ain't worth your soul |
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$315 ain't worth your soul |
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$315 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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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 intergration 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 |
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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 |
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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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Ohhhohh 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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Mmmmm, stayyy |
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Uh-uh |
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Ohh why didn't you stay.. |