For your eyes (for eyes)
For your eyes only, for your only (for eyes)
For eyes only
Hey Niggas be on the daily It my dreams faded for far too long, the consequences deadly Can't visualize myself as but a criminal Control the block, serving up and stay subliminal Cause young is hard headed, they letting off of adrenaline, ignorant to what death can cause Ain't no coming back, dressed in black it's hot now, the cops outside it's hard to flip a pack And my daughter gotta eat, her mama be stressing me like I ain't the one who put Jays on her feet Like I ain't out in the field like I might be low for the moment but I will back Despite the charges, back to the wall I regardless, Screaming "fuck the law", my is lawless That's what you it Ain't got to be no psychic to see this is like the farthest thing heaven This is hell and I don't that hyperbolic I try to find employment if the swiper chargeless But felonies be making life the hardest Resisting the temptation to run up and a wallet Or run up on your yard, your daughter bike and pawn it why I write this sonnet If the pressure get too much for me to and I break Play this tape for my and let her know my life is on it Let her know my is on it (For eyes) Let her my life is on For your only
For eyes do you understand For eyes do you understand me For your do you understand For your eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me For your do you understand For eyes do you understand me
You're grown now so this song'll hit you If you're hearing this it means I'm no longer with you In the physical, not even if I believe in God But because you alive He got me praying that the is real So I can be a part of you still, my pops was too So I how part of you feels Maybe you hate me, maybe you miss me, maybe you me Life goes in cycles, maybe date a nigga just like me I not, I'm tired of dope spots And fiends that smoke I've seen far too many niggas rot I'm writing 'cause me and the devil had a dance I see round the corner, apologizing in advance know if I ever had a chance At a glance I'm a failure, addicted to paraphernalia But Daddy had dreams once, my eyes had a gleam Innocence disappeared by the age of years My shot up, drug related Mama So raised me in projects where thugs was hanging Blood was staining the niggas I loved talked like they was above maintaining a time sheet That slow money, up the family business By the age of thirteen, six years later was handed Round the same you came in this world Me and your thinking, what the fuck we naming this girl? I told her Nina, the name that I could think of For the thing my eyes had ever seen I was nineteen, it took me two felonies to see the trap, this ass system set for me And now it's too late for me to ever be the one that set examples that were set for me I'm living fast, but not fast enough cause keeps catching up to me And if my becomes the death of me, I hope you understand
For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me For your do you understand For your do you understand me For your do you understand For your do you understand me
In several ways I could've went out, too many to Was it the trigger happy crackers that the give clout Was it the nigga, blasting frustrated cause the cash running out Niggas don't how to act in a drought See baby girl I realized, my definition of a real nigga was My views by new mixtapes confirmed the shit I learned from in the streets was true That real don't speak when they beef with you They just pull up on your street, let the have you And if a real nigga hungry he gon' eat your I was a fool, all my time ducking school, ducking cops Ducking rules, hugging blocks that don't you I you find a nigga with goals and point of views broader than the corner, if not it's gon' corner you Into a box, where your son don't even know his And the cyclical nature of time continues My worst fear is one day that you come home from school and see your father face while hearing tragedy on news I got the strangest feeling your Daddy lose his life soon And sadly if listening now it must mean it's true But there's a chance that it's not And this remains locked in a hard drive like valuable jewels And I can teach you this in person I'm teaching you to tie your own shoes I love you and I hope to God I don't you For your only
For your For eyes only For your For your eyes For your eyes do you
One day your daddy called me, told me he had a funny he'd been dealing with lately, he wasn't telling I tried to pick his brains, still he revealing But I could feel the of panic in his voice and it was chilling He "Jermaine, I knew since we was children I never asked for nothing times was hard I never had discussions with you begging you to help me I dealt the repercussions of my actions I know you tried to steer me away from shit But that shit was in my blood, you know my I know your momma nigga, my love In case I never get a chance to again I won't forget the weekends spent sleeping at your That's the way I wished my family But my crib was in the 'jects I had to like, "Nigga what you talking 'bout? Fuck is you getting at?" He said "Listen, I got no to dive into descriptions But I've been having premonitions, just call it visions from the other I got a feeling I won't see tomorrow, the time I'm living on is borrowed that said I'm proud to say I was a father Write my story down and if I pass go it for my daughter when she ready So I'm leaving you this record for your eyes only, don't you ever scratch it it perspective is a real one, another lost Ville son I dedicate words to you and all the other children Affected by all the mass incarceration in this That sent pops to prison when he needed education Sometimes I think this segregation would've us better Although that means I would never be brought into this 'cos my daddy was so thrilled when he found him a white girl to take back to Jonesborough with Little Zach and Cole World barely one years old, now it's thirty years later sure the story's told your daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was cold Not because he was the first to get some pussy years old Not becuase he used to come through in the on some vogues Not 'cause he from bagging up them grams to serving Os Now your was a real nigga, not 'cos he was hard Not because he a life of crime and sat behind some bars Not because he screamed fuck the law, that was true Your daddy was a real nigga he loved you" For eyes only