For your only (for eyes)
For your eyes only, for eyes only (for eyes)
For your only
Hey be dying on the daily It seems my dreams for far too long, the consequences deadly Can't visualize myself as nothing but a Control the block, up rocks and stay subliminal Cause niggas is hard 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 ain't out in the like that I might be low for the moment but I bounce back Despite the charges, to the wall I fight regardless, Screaming "fuck the law", my life is what you call it Ain't got to be no psychic to see this is like the farthest from heaven This is hell and I don't mean hyperbolic I try to employment even if the swiper chargeless But these felonies be life the hardest Resisting the temptation to run up and a wallet Or run up on your yard, your daughter bike and pawn it That's why I this sonnet If the pressure get too much for me to take and I 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 know my is on For your eyes
For your do you understand For your do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me
You're probably grown now so this hit you If you're hearing this it means unfortunately I'm no longer you In the physical, not even sure if I in God But because you alive He got me praying that the is real So I can be a of you still, my pops was killed too So I know how of you feels Maybe you hate me, you miss me, maybe you spite me Life in cycles, maybe you'll date a nigga just like me I hope not, I'm tired of spots And fiends smoke rocks seen far too many niggas hopes rot I'm writing 'cause me and the devil had a dance I see death round the corner, in advance Don't know if I had a chance At a glance I'm a failure, to pushing paraphernalia But Daddy had dreams once, my eyes had a once disappeared by the age of eight years My Pops up, drug related Mama So raised me in projects where thugs was hanging was staining the concrete Older niggas I loved like 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 time you came in this world Me and your mama thinking, what the we naming this girl? I her Nina, the prettiest name that 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 late for me to ever be the one that set examples were never set for me I'm living fast, but not fast enough cause karma keeps up to me And if my past becomes the death of me, I hope you
For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me For your do you understand For your do you understand me
In several ways I went out, too many to count Was it the trigger crackers that the badges give clout Was it the young nigga, frustrated cause the cash running out Niggas don't know how to act in a See baby I realized, my definition of a real nigga was skewed My views misshaped by new That confirmed the shit I learned from in the streets was That real don't speak when they beef with you They pull up on your street, let the heat have you And if a real nigga hungry he eat your food I was a fool, spent all my time ducking school, cops Ducking rules, blocks that don't love you I pray you find a nigga with goals and of views Much broader the corner, if not it's gon' corner you Into a box, where son don't even know his pops And the cyclical nature of doing continues My worst fear is one day that you come home from school and see your father face while hearing 'bout on news I got the strangest feeling your Daddy lose his life soon And sadly if you're listening now it must it's true But maybe a chance that it's not And this album remains locked in a hard like valuable jewels And I can you this in person like I'm teaching you to tie your own shoes I love you and I hope to God I lose you For eyes only
For your For eyes only For your 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 lately, he wasn't telling I tried to pick his brains, still he 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 asked for nothing When times was hard I never had discussions 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 my life I know your momma nigga, send my In case I get a chance to speak again I forget the weekends spent sleeping at your crib the way I wished 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 "Listen, I got no time to dive into descriptions But I've been having premonitions, just call it from the other side I got a I won't see tomorrow, like 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 play it for my daughter when she So I'm leaving you record for your eyes only, don't you ever scratch it disrespect it This is a real one, another lost Ville son I these words to you and all the other children Affected by all the mass in this nation That sent your pops to when he needed education Sometimes I think this segregation 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 girl to take back to Jonesborough with Little Zach and Cole barely one years old, now it's thirty years later making sure the story's told Girl your was a real nigga, not 'cos he was cold Not because he was the first to get some twelve years old Not he used to come through in the Caddy on some vogues Not 'cause he went bagging up them grams to serving Os Now your daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was Not because he lived a of crime and sat behind some bars Not because he screamed fuck the law, although that was Your daddy was a nigga 'cos he loved you" For your only