[00:00.515]Yo, we gotta start respectin life more y'all
[00:03.770]You look at your brother man you gotta see yourself
[00:07.042]Gotta see the God within him
[00:09.306]Brothers gettin changed real quick over nothin
[00:13.234]We losin too many of ours
[00:16.330]Gotta recreate y'all
[00:18.842]Yo, check it
[00:21.489]Knowin you the best part of life, do I have the right to take yours
[00:25.676]Cause I created you, irresponsibly
[00:28.193]Subconciously knowin the act I was a part of
[00:31.145]The start of somethin, I'm not ready to bring into the world
[00:33.876]Had myself believin I was sterile
[00:36.115]I look into mother's stomach, wonder if you are a boy or a girl
[00:39.257]Turnin this woman's womb into a tomb
[00:41.585]But she and I agree, a seed we don't need
[00:44.660]You would've been much more than a mouth to feed
[00:47.238]But someone, I woulda fed this information I read
[00:50.165]to someone, my life for you I woulda had to leave
[00:52.801]Instead I lead you to death
[00:54.660]I'm sorry for takin your first breath, first step, and first cry
[00:58.425]But I wasn't prepared mentally nor financially
[01:01.025]Havin a child shouldn't have to bring out the man in me
[01:03.601]Plus I wanted you to be raised within a family
[01:06.297]I don't wanna, go through the drama of havin a baby's momma
[01:09.297]Weekend visits and buyin J's ain't gon' make me a father
[01:11.988]For a while bearing a child is somethin I never wanted to do
[01:14.723]For me to live forever I can only do that through you
[01:17.489]Nerve I got to talk about them niggaz with a gun
[01:20.145]Must have really thought I was God to take the life of my son
[01:22.822]I could have sacrificed goin out
[01:24.755]To think my homies who did it I used to joke about, from now on
[01:28.321]I'ma use self control instead of birth control
[01:30.937]Cause $315 ain't worth your soul
[01:33.757]$315 ain't worth your soul
[01:36.466]$315 ain't worth it
[01:38.761]I, never dreamed you'd leave, in summer
[01:47.458]You said you would be here when it rained
[01:57.928]Yo,why didn't you stay
[02:01.456]Seeing you as a present and a gift in itself
[02:03.328]You had our child in you, I probably never feel what you felt
[02:06.724]But you dealt with it like the strong black woman you are
[02:09.275]Through our trials and tribulations, child's elimination
[02:12.224]An intergration of thoughts I feel about the situation
[02:15.152]Back and forth my feelings was pacin
[02:17.347]Happy deep down but not joyed enough to have it
[02:19.705]But even that's a lie in less than two weeks, we was back at it
[02:23.099]Is this unprotected love or safe to say it's lust
[02:25.858]Bustin, more than the sweat in somebody you trust
[02:28.432]Or is it that we don't trust each other enough
[02:31.040]And believe, havin this child'll make us have to stay together
[02:34.072]Girl I want you in my life cause you have made it better
[02:36.688]Thinkin we all in love cause we can spend a day together
[02:39.460]We talkin spendin the rest of our lives
[02:41.560]It's too many black women that can say they mothers
[02:43.728]but can't say that they wives
[02:44.946]I wouldn't chose any other to mother my understanding
[02:47.760]But I want our Parenthood to come from Planning
[02:49.911]It's so much in my life that's undone
[02:51.784]We gotta see eye to eye, about family, before we can become one
[02:55.962]If you had decided to have it the situation I wouldn't run from
[02:58.691]But I'm walkin, findin myself in my God
[03:01.312]So I can, discipline my son with my writin
[03:04.088]Not have a judge tellin me how and when to raise my seed
[03:06.672]Though his death was at our greed, with no one else to blame
[03:09.528]I had a book of Afrikan names, case our minds changed
[03:12.344]You say your period hasn't came, and lately I've been sleepy
[03:15.024]So quit smokin the weed and the beadies and let's have this boy
[03:18.067]I, never dreamed you'd leave in summer
[03:26.490]You said you would be here when it rained
[03:36.336]You said you would be here when it rained
[03:39.041]Ohh I, never dreamed you'd leave in summer
[03:47.940]Now the situation's made things change
[03:57.575]Things change
[03:58.687]Why, didn't you stay
[04:01.807]Why didn't you stay...
[04:09.511]I, never dreamed you'd leave, in summer
[04:20.727]In summer
[04:23.247]You said you would be here when, it rained
[04:30.945]When it rained, it rained
[04:33.820]Ohhhohh I, never dreamed, you'd leave in summer
[04:43.273]You said you wouldn't leave
[04:44.575]Now the situation's made things change
[04:51.767]Things change, why didn't you stay?
[04:56.959]Stay, stay stay stay stay stay stay
[05:02.673]Mmmmm, stayyy
[05:07.198]Uh-uh
[05:09.312]Ohh why didn't you stay..