For your eyes (for eyes)
For eyes only, for your eyes only (for eyes)
For eyes only
Hey Niggas be on the daily It seems my dreams faded for far too long, the consequences Can't visualize myself as but a criminal Control the block, serving up and stay subliminal Cause niggas is hard headed, they letting off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to what can cause no coming back, family dressed in black Plus it's hot now, the cops outside it's to flip a pack And my daughter gotta eat, her be stressing me like I ain't the one who put them Jays on her feet Like I out in the field like that 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 what you call it Ain't got to be no psychic to see this is like the farthest thing from This is and I don't mean that hyperbolic I try to employment even if the swiper chargeless But these felonies be making life the Resisting the temptation to run up and a wallet Or run up on your yard, snatch your daughter bike and it why I write this sonnet If the get too much for me to take and I break Play tape 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 your eyes
For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For your eyes do you For your do you understand me For your eyes do you For your do you understand me For your eyes do you For your do you understand me
probably grown now so this song'll hit you If you're hearing it means unfortunately I'm no longer with you In the physical, not sure if I believe in God But because you still He got me praying the spiritual is real So I can be a part of you still, my pops was too So I know how of you feels Maybe you hate me, you miss me, maybe you spite me goes in cycles, maybe you'll date a nigga just like me I hope not, I'm 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 death the corner, apologizing in advance Don't know if I ever had a At a glance I'm a failure, to pushing paraphernalia But had dreams once, my eyes had a gleam once disappeared by the age of eight years My shot up, drug related addicted So Granny raised me in where thugs was hanging was staining the concrete Older niggas I loved talked like they was above maintaining a time That money, picked up the family business By the age of thirteen, six years later was handed Round the same time you came in world Me and your mama thinking, what the fuck we this girl? I told her Nina, the prettiest name I could think of For the thing my eyes had ever seen I was nineteen, it took me two to see the trap, this crooked ass system set for me And now it's too for me to ever be the one that set examples that were never set for me I'm living fast, but not fast cause karma keeps catching up to me And if my past becomes the death of me, I you understand
For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me For your do you understand For your eyes do you me For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For your do you understand For your do you understand me
In several ways I could've went out, too to count Was it the happy crackers that the badges give clout Was it the young nigga, blasting frustrated cause the cash out Niggas don't how to act in a drought See baby girl I realized, my definition of a real was skewed My views misshaped by new That confirmed the shit I learned from in the was true That real don't speak when they beef with you They just pull up on street, let the heat have you And if a real nigga hungry he gon' eat food I was a fool, spent all my ducking school, ducking cops Ducking rules, hugging that don't love you I pray you find a nigga goals and point of views Much broader than the corner, if not gon' corner you Into a box, where your son even know his pops And the cyclical nature of time continues My worst fear is one day that you come home school and see your father face while hearing 'bout tragedy on news I got the strangest feeling your Daddy gonna lose his life And sadly if you're listening now it must mean it's But maybe there's a chance that not And this album remains locked in a hard drive like valuable And I can teach you this in person like I'm you to tie your own shoes I you and I hope to God I don't lose you For eyes only
For eyes For your only For eyes For your only For your eyes do you
One day your daddy called me, told me he had a feeling What he'd been dealing lately, he wasn't telling I to pick his brains, still he wasn't revealing But I could the sense of panic in his voice and it was chilling He said "Jermaine, I knew since we was children I never for nothing When times was hard I never had discussions with you you to help me I dealt the repercussions of my actions I you tried to steer me away from that shit But that shit was in my blood, you my life I know your momma nigga, my love In I never get a chance to speak again I won't forget the weekends spent at your crib That's the way I my family lived But my crib was in the 'jects I had to interject like, "Nigga what you talking 'bout? Fuck is you at?" He said "Listen, I got no to dive into descriptions But I've having premonitions, just call it visions from the other side I got a feeling I see tomorrow, like the time I'm living on is borrowed With that said I'm proud to say I was a Write my story down and if I pass go it for my daughter when she ready So I'm you this record for your eyes only, don't you ever scratch it disrespect it This perspective is a one, another lost Ville son I these words to you and all the other children Affected by all the incarceration in this nation That sent your pops to when he needed education Sometimes I think this would've done us better Although that means I never be brought into this world '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 making sure the story's Girl your 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 in the Caddy on some vogues Not 'cause he went from bagging up them 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 fuck the law, although that was true Your daddy was a real nigga he loved you" For your eyes