Chords for Common - Retrospect For Life (Official Video) ft. Lauryn Hill

_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[D] You said you was gonna give me that money three weeks [Bb] ago.
What's up with this, man?
_ [Ab] _ _ _ [Eb] What's up? _ _
_ [D] I'm pregnant.
_ [Bb] Pregnant?
You know I ain't ready to have no shorty right now.
[Fm] Why you even coming to me with this?
I'm trying to get my life together.
You know I ain't trying to have no shorty.
What [D] you gonna do about this?
What am I gonna do?
Like you didn't help to make this happen?
[N] A minute ago everything was straight.
And now something real is happening and you ready to bail out?
[F] Rasheed!
[Fm] Rasheed!
[G] Brothers getting changed real quick over nothing.
_ [Gm] We losing too [D] many of ours.
[Eb] Gotta recreate, y'all.
[D] Yo.
Check it.
[Gm] Knowing you the best part of life, do I have the right [Fm] to take yours?
Cause I [Bb] created you [Eb] irresponsibly.
Subconsciously knowing the act, I [C] wasn't part of the start of something.
I'm not ready to bring [Gm] it to the world.
Had myself believing I was sterile.
[C] I look at your mother's [Bb] stomach and wonder if you are a boy [Eb] or a girl.
Turning this woman's wound into a [C] tomb.
Rasheed and I agree.
Rasheed, we [Gm] don't need you.
Would've been much more than a mouth to [Fm] feed with someone.
I would've fed this information [Eb] I read to someone.
My life for you I would've had [C] to lead.
Instead I led you to death.
[Gm] Sorry for taking your first breath, first step, and [F] first cry.
But I wasn't prepared mentally nor [Eb] financially.
Having a child shouldn't have to bring out the man in [C] me.
Plus I wanted you to be raised [G] within a family.
[Gm] I don't want to go through the drama of having a [C] baby's mama.
Weak at visits and [Bb] buying James ain't gonna make me [Eb] a father.
For a while, bury a child is something I never [C] wanted to do.
For me to live forever, I can only do that [Gm] through you.
Nerve, I got to talk about them niggas with [Fm] a gun.
Must've really [Dm] thought I was God to take the life of [Eb] my son.
I could've sacrificed going out.
To [Gm] think my homies who did it I used to joke [C] about.
From [Gm] now on, I'ma use self-control instead of birth [Fm] control.
[Bb] $315 ain't worth your [Eb] soul.
$315 ain't worth your [G] soul.
$315 [Cm] ain't worth your soul.
I _ _
_ [Eb] never dreamed you'd [Fm] leave me in summer.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Ab] You said you [G] would be here when [F] it rained. _
_ [Eb] _ Why didn't you stay?
[Gm] Seeing you after class is not a gift in itself.
[F] You had our child in you.
I probably never feel what you [Eb] felt, but you dealt with it like the strong black woman you [C] are.
Throughout [Gm] trials and tribulations, [C] trials and [Gm] elimination.
An integration of thoughts I feel about the situation.
[Fm] Back and forth, my feelings was patient.
[Eb] Happy deep down, but not joyed enough to have it.
[C] But even that's a lie.
In less [Bb] than two weeks, we was back [Gm] at it.
Is this unprotected love or safe to say [F] it's lust [Bb] busting?
More than a sweat is somebody you [Gm] trust.
Or is it that we don't trust each other [C] enough and [Bb] believe having this child will make [C] us have to stay [Gm] together?
Don't want you in my life because you have made it [Fm] better.
[F] Thinking we all in love because we can spend a day [Eb] together?
We talking spending the rest of our lives.
[C] There's too many black [G] women that can say they mothers, we can't say that they [Bb] wives.
I wouldn't choose [Gm] any other to mother my [F] understanding, but I want our parenthood to come from planning.
[Eb] There's so much in my life that's undone.
We got to [C] see eye to eye [D] about family [Am] before we kept [Gm] going.
If you had decided to have it, the situation I wouldn't [Fm] run from.
[Bb] But I'm walking, finding myself and my [Eb] God so I can discipline my [C] son with my riding.
I have a [Gm] judge telling me how I went to [G] raise my [Gm] seed.
I was deaf, was out on creed when no one else could [F] blame.
I had a book of African names.
In case our minds [Eb] change, you say your period had became.
And lately I'm [C] sleepy, so quit smoking the weed and the beedies and let's [Gm] have this boy. _ _
[Fm] I never dreamed you'd leave [Eb] me in the summer.
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [Cm] You said you would [D] be [C] here when [Gm] it rained.
You said you would be here when it rained.
Oh, [Cm] I _ [Eb] never dreamed you'd leave [Fm] in the summer.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [Gm] _ [Ab] _ The _ [F] [G] situation made [F] things change.
Things change.
[Eb] Why [Bb] didn't you stay?
Why didn't you stay?
Stay, stay, [F] stay, stay, stay, stay, stay.
[Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [F] Stay. _ _
_ [Bb] _ [Eb] _ _ [F] _ Stay. _
[Bb] _ _ _ Stay. Stay.
Stay.
_ _ _ _ Stay. _ _