This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. Oh I, never dreamed, you'd leave in summer You said you would be here when, it rained Oh I, never dreamed you'd leave in summer So quit smoking the weed and the beadies and let's have this boy You say your period hasn't came, and lately I've been sleepy I had a book of African names, case our minds changed Though his death was at our greed, with no one else to blame Not have a judge telling me how and when to raise my seed So I can, discipline my son with my writing If you had decided to have it the situation I wouldn't run fromīut I'm walking, finding myself in my God We gotta see eye to eye, about family, before we can become one I wouldn't chose any other to mother my understandingīut I want our Parenthood to come from Planning It's too many black women that can say they mothers We talking spending the rest of our lives Thinking we all in love 'cause we can spend a day together Or is it that we don't trust each other enoughĪnd believe, having this child'll make us have to stay togetherĭon't I want you in my life cause you have made it better Is this unprotected love or safe to say it's lustīusting, more than the sweat in somebody you trust Happy deep down but not joyed enough to have itīut even that's a lie in less than two weeks, we was back at it Through our trials and tribulations, child's eliminationĪn integration of thoughts I feel about the situation You had our child in you, I probably never feel what you feltīut you dealt with it like the strong black woman you are Seeing you as a present and a gift in itself You said you would be here when it rained I'ma use self control instead of birth control To think my homies who did it I used to joke about, from now on Must have really thought I was God to take the life of my son Nerve I got to talk about them niggas with a gun Weekend visits and buying J's ain't gon' make me a fatherįor a while bearing a child is something I never wanted to doįor me to live forever I can only do that through you I don't want to, go through the drama of having a baby's momma Plus I wanted you to be raised within a family Having a child shouldn't have to bring out the man in me I'm sorry for taking your first breath, first step, and first cryīut I wasn't prepared mentally nor financially To someone, my life for you I would of had to leave You would've been much more than a mouth to feedīut someone, I would of fed this information I read I look into mother's stomach, wonder if you are a boy or a girlīut she and I agree, a seed we don't need The start of something, I'm not ready to bring into the world Subconsciously knowing the act I was a part of Knowing you the best part of life do I have the right to take yours You look at your brother man you gotta see yourselfīrothers getting changed real quick over nothing Two of its b-sides, "Invocation" and "Hungry," received low budget music videos.Yo we gotta start respecting life more y'all A music video directed by Lauryn Hill was made for it. Lauryn Hill's verse embodies portions of "Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer" by Stevie Wonder, while the song's beat samples " A Song for You" by Donny Hathaway. Kevin Powell of Rolling Stone considers it to be the centerpiece of its album, and Leo Stanley of Allmusic similarly boasts of its significant emotional impact. The lyrics as well as a "mellow, piano-driven beat" has caused Dan Menella to call it the most memorable track on Common's third album. Its autobiographical lyrics weigh the choices of abortion and birth for a woman impregnated by Common. It features production from James Poyser and No I.D., vocals from Lauryn Hill and bass guitar playing by Vere Isaacs. " Retrospect for Life" is the first single from rapper Common's third album One Day It'll All Make Sense. 1997 single by Common featuring Lauryn Hill "Retrospect for Life"įrom the album One Day It'll All Make Sense
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