For your only (for eyes)
For your only, for your eyes only (for eyes)
For eyes only
Hey Niggas be dying on the It my dreams faded for far too long, the consequences deadly Can't myself as nothing but a criminal Control the block, serving up rocks and subliminal Cause young niggas is hard headed, they off of adrenaline, ignorant to what death can cause Ain't no coming back, family dressed in Plus it's hot now, the cops it's hard to flip a pack And my daughter gotta eat, her mama be stressing me I ain't the one who put them Jays on her feet Like I ain't out in the field like I might be low for the but I will bounce back the charges, back to the wall I fight 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 from heaven is hell and I don't mean that hyperbolic I try to employment even if the swiper chargeless But felonies be making life the hardest the temptation to run up and swipe a wallet Or run up on yard, snatch 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 for my daughter and let her know my life is on it Let her my life is on it (For eyes) Let her know my is on For eyes only
For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me For your eyes do you For your do you understand me For eyes do you understand For eyes do you understand me
You're probably grown now so song'll hit you If you're hearing this it means unfortunately I'm no with you In the physical, not sure if I believe in God But because you still He got me praying that the spiritual is 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, you spite me Life goes in cycles, maybe you'll date a nigga just me I hope not, I'm tired of dope And fiends smoke rocks I've seen far too many niggas rot I'm writing this me and the devil had a dance I see death round the corner, apologizing in Don't know if I had a chance At a I'm a failure, addicted to pushing paraphernalia But Daddy had once, my eyes had a gleam once Innocence by the age of eight years My shot up, drug related Mama So Granny raised me in projects thugs was hanging Blood was staining the Older niggas I loved talked like they was maintaining a time sheet That money, picked up the family business By the age of thirteen, six later was handed sentence Round the same time you in this world Me and your mama thinking, what the fuck we naming girl? I told her Nina, the prettiest name that I think of For the prettiest thing my had ever seen I was nineteen, it took me two felonies to see the trap, crooked ass system set for me And now it's too late for me to ever be the one set examples that were never set for me I'm living fast, but not enough cause karma keeps catching up to me And if my past becomes the death of me, I you understand
For your do you understand For eyes do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me For your eyes do you For your do you understand me For eyes do you understand For eyes do you understand me
In several ways I could've out, too many to count Was it the trigger happy that the badges give clout Was it the young nigga, blasting cause the cash running out Niggas know how to act in a drought See baby girl I realized, my definition of a real nigga was My views misshaped by new That confirmed the shit I learned from in the streets was That real niggas don't speak when beef with you They pull up on your street, let the heat have you And if a nigga hungry he gon' eat your food I was a fool, spent all my time ducking school, ducking Ducking rules, blocks that don't love you I pray you find a nigga with and point of views Much broader than the corner, if not it's corner you a box, where your son don't even know his pops And the cyclical nature of time continues My fear is one day that you come home from school and see your father face while hearing 'bout tragedy on news I got the strangest feeling Daddy gonna lose his life soon And sadly if you're listening now it must mean true But maybe there's a chance it's not And this album remains locked in a hard like valuable jewels And I can teach you in person like I'm teaching you to tie your own shoes I love you and I hope to God I lose you For your only
For eyes For your only For eyes For eyes only For your eyes do you
One day your daddy me, told me he had a funny feeling What he'd been dealing with lately, he telling I tried to pick his brains, still he revealing But I feel the sense of panic in his voice and it was chilling He said "Jermaine, I since we was children I never asked for nothing When was hard I never had discussions with you begging you to help me I dealt with the repercussions of my I know you tried to steer me away from shit But that shit was in my blood, you know my I know momma nigga, send my love In I never get a chance to speak again I won't forget the weekends spent sleeping at crib That's the way I my family lived But my granny crib was in the I had to interject like, "Nigga what you 'bout? Fuck is you getting at?" He said "Listen, I got no time to dive descriptions But been having premonitions, just call it visions from the other side I got a feeling I won't see tomorrow, like the time I'm on is borrowed that said I'm proud to say I was a father Write my story down and if I pass go play it for my daughter when she So I'm leaving you this record for your eyes only, don't you ever scratch it it This perspective is a real one, another Ville son I dedicate these words to you and all the other Affected by all the mass incarceration in nation That your pops to prison when he needed education I think this segregation would've done us better Although that means I would never be brought into this world 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 thirty years later making 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 twelve old Not becuase he used to come through in the on some vogues Not 'cause he went from bagging up them grams to Os Now your was a real nigga, not 'cos he was hard Not because he lived a life of crime and sat behind some Not he screamed fuck the law, although that was true Your daddy was a real nigga he loved you" For eyes only