Cole tackles the topic of abortion on this song "Lost Ones", which he wrote several years before the release of Cole World: The Sideline Story. He explained that this was "a song with dealing with young pregnancy, when you're around that age of either late teens or early 20s or whatever age you are, it explores all of that from both sides". He held out on releasing the song until his new album released recently. The song shows both lights of abortion and how people might handle it.
Verse 1:
Baby girl, I can’t imagine what it’s like for you
I got you pregnant now inside there is a life in you
I know you wonderin’ if this gon' make me think bout wifing you
Like if you had my first child would I spend my whole life with you
Now I ain't tryna pick a fight with you, I’m tryna talk
Now I ain't tryna spend the night with you
I’m kinda lost see
I’ve been giving it some thought lately and frankly
I’m feelin’ like we ain't ready and it’s hold up now
Let me finish
Think about it baby me and you we still kids ourself
How we gon' raise a kid by ourself?
Handle biz by ourself
A nigga barely over twenty, where the hell we gon' live?
Where am I gon get that money
I refuse to bring my boy or my girl in this world
When I ain't got shit to give ‘em
And I’m not with them niggas who be knocking girls up and skate out
Girl, you gotta think bout how the options weigh out
Whats the way out?
J. Cole brings up how he impregnated his girlfriend and how he feels confused. He tells his girlfriend that they need to think about the outcomes of this. They need to realize that they are only kids themselves barely coming into the world and they have nothing to offer the child. They don't have a place to stay or the money for baby necessities. He also says he won't be the guy to up and leave a woman if she gets pregnant.
[Chorus: x2]
And I ain't too proud to tell ya that I cry sometimes
I cry sometimes about it
And girl I know it hurt but if this world was perfect
Then we could make it work but I doubt it
J. Cole is saying that he gets upset sometimes and cries. He states if this world was perfect, raising the baby would be easier and they could probably make it work but the world isn't perfect.
Verse 2:
She said nigga you got nerve
To come up to me talkin’ bout abortion
This my body nigga so don’t think you finna force shit
See I knew that this is how you act, so typical
Said you love me, oh, but now you flipping like reciprocals
It figures though, I should’ve known that you was just another nigga
No different from them other niggas
Who be claiming that they love you just to get up in them draws
Knowing all the right things to say
I let you hit it raw motherfucker
Now I’m pregnant you don’t wanna get involved motherfucker
Tryna take away a life, is you God motherfucker?
I don’t think so
This a new life up in my stomach
Regardless if I’m your wife
This new life here I’mma love it
I ain't budging, I’ll do this by my muthafucking self
See my momma raised me without no muthafucking help from a man
But I still don’t understand how you could say that
Did you forget all those conversations that we had way back
Bout your father and you told me that you hate that nigga
Talkin’ bout he a coward and you so glad that you ain't that nigga
'Cause he left your mamma when she had you and he ain't shit
Here you go doin’ the same shit
You ain't shit nigga!
The girlfriend starts telling J. Cole that she doesn't want to think about abortion and that she will not go through with it. She accuses J. Cole of playing God by saying to have an abortion and end a new life. She reminds him of their conversations about J. Cole's father and how J. Cole said he didn't want to end up like him. But with his arguing over reasoning whether to keep the baby, he's starting to sound like his father.
Verse 3:
They say everything happens for a reason
And people change like the seasons
They grow apart she wanted him to show his heart and say he loved her
He spoke the magic words and on the same day he fucked her
Now she wide open
She put a ring up on his finger if she could
But he loved her cause the pussy good
But she ain't no wife though
Uh oh, she tellin’ him she missed her period like typo’s
He panicking, froze up like a mannequin
A life grows inside her now he asking “is it even mine”
What if this bitch ain't even pregnant dawg
Could she be lying?
She be crying crying cause he acting distant
Like ever since I told you this nigga you acting different
And all his niggas saying man these hoes be trapping niggas
Playing with niggas emotions like they some action figures
Swear they get pregnant for collateral
It’s like extortion, man if that bitch really pregnant
Tell her get an abortion
Uh, but what about your seed nigga?
What about your seed nigga?
And I ain't too proud to tell ya that I cry sometimes
I cry sometimes about it
And I ain't too proud to tell ya that I cry sometimes
I cry sometimes about it
J. Cole is stating that he isn't in love with the girl and she isn't wife-material. When she told him she missed her period, he became panicked. He says she was complaining about him being distant. J. Cole also says some girls get pregnant just to use it against the man and use it as collateral.
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