For eyes only (for eyes)
For your eyes only, for eyes only (for eyes)
For eyes only
Hey Niggas be dying on the It my dreams faded for far too long, the consequences deadly visualize myself as nothing but a criminal Control the block, serving up rocks and subliminal Cause young niggas is headed, they letting off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to what can cause Ain't no coming back, family in black Plus it's hot now, the cops outside it's hard to 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 but I will bounce back the charges, back to the wall I fight regardless, Screaming "fuck the law", my is lawless That's you call it Ain't got to be no psychic to see this is like the thing from heaven is hell and I don't mean that hyperbolic I try to find employment even if the swiper But these felonies be making life the the temptation to run up and swipe a wallet Or run up on your yard, snatch daughter bike and pawn it That's why I write this If the pressure get too for me to take and I break this 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 only
For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For your do you understand For your eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For eyes do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your 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 longer you In the physical, not even if I believe in God But because you still He got me that the spiritual is real So I can be a part of you still, my was killed too So I know how of you feels Maybe you hate me, maybe you me, maybe you spite me Life goes in cycles, maybe you'll a nigga just like me I hope not, I'm tired of dope And that smoke rocks I've seen far too many hopes rot I'm writing 'cause me and the devil had a dance I see round the corner, apologizing in advance Don't know if I had a chance At a glance I'm a failure, addicted to pushing But had dreams once, my eyes had a gleam once disappeared by the age of eight years My Pops up, drug related addicted So Granny raised me in projects where thugs was was staining the concrete Older niggas I loved talked they was above maintaining a time sheet That slow money, picked up the business By the age of thirteen, six later was handed sentence Round the same time you came in this 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 my eyes 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 fast cause karma keeps catching up to me And if my becomes the death of me, I hope you understand
For your do you understand For your do you understand me For your do you understand For your eyes do you me For your do you understand For your eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For your 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, 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 That confirmed the I learned from in the streets was true That real niggas don't speak when they with you They just pull up on your street, let the heat 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 with goals and point of Much broader than the corner, if not gon' corner you Into a box, where your son don't even his pops And the cyclical nature of doing time My worst fear is one day that you home from school and see your father face while hearing 'bout tragedy on news I got the strangest your Daddy gonna lose his life soon And sadly if you're listening now it mean it's true But maybe there's a chance it's not And this album remains locked in a hard drive like valuable And I can teach you in person like I'm teaching you to tie your own shoes I you and I hope to God I don't lose you For eyes only
For your For your eyes For eyes For your only For eyes do you understand
One day your daddy called me, told me he had a feeling What he'd been dealing with lately, he wasn't I tried to pick his brains, he wasn't revealing But I could feel the sense of panic in his and it was chilling He said "Jermaine, I knew since we was children I never for nothing When times was hard I never had with you begging you to help me I dealt with the of my actions I know you tried to steer me away that shit But that shit was in my blood, you know my I your momma nigga, send my love In case I never get a to speak again I won't forget the weekends sleeping at your crib That's the way I my family lived But my granny crib was in the I had to interject like, "Nigga what you talking 'bout? is you getting at?" He said "Listen, I got no time to dive into But I've been having premonitions, just call it from the other side I got a feeling I won't see tomorrow, like the time I'm living on is With that said I'm proud to say I was a Write my story down and if I pass go play it for my when she ready So I'm leaving you this record for your only, don't you ever scratch it disrespect it This perspective is a real one, another lost son I these words to you and all the other children Affected by all the mass incarceration in this That sent your pops to prison he needed education Sometimes I think segregation would've done us better Although that means I would never be brought into this world 'cos my daddy was so thrilled when he found him a white 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 Girl your daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was Not because he was the first to get some pussy twelve old Not becuase he to come through in the Caddy 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 he lived a life of crime and sat behind some bars Not because he fuck the law, although that was true Your daddy was a real 'cos he loved you" For your eyes