For eyes only (for eyes)
For your only, for your eyes only (for eyes)
For your eyes
Hey Niggas be on the daily It my dreams faded for far too long, the consequences deadly Can't visualize myself as nothing but a the block, serving up rocks and stay subliminal Cause young niggas is headed, they letting off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to death can cause Ain't no coming back, family in black Plus it's hot now, the cops 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 them on her feet Like I ain't out in the field that I be low for the moment but I will bounce back Despite the charges, 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 farthest thing from This is hell and I don't that hyperbolic I try to employment even if the swiper chargeless But these felonies be life the hardest 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 much for me to and I break Play this tape for my daughter and let her my life is on it Let her know my is on it (For eyes) Let her my life is on For eyes only
For your 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 eyes do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me
You're probably grown now so song'll hit you If hearing this it means unfortunately I'm no longer with 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 pops was too So I how part 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 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 round the corner, apologizing in advance Don't know if I ever had a At a glance I'm a failure, to pushing paraphernalia But Daddy had dreams once, my had a gleam once Innocence by the age of eight years My Pops up, drug related addicted So Granny me in projects where thugs was hanging Blood was staining the Older I loved talked like they was above maintaining a time sheet That slow money, picked up the family By the age of thirteen, six years later was sentence Round the same you came in this world Me and mama thinking, what the fuck we naming this girl? I told her Nina, the prettiest 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 karma keeps up to me And if my past becomes the death of me, I hope you
For your do you understand For eyes do you understand me For your eyes do you For your do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For eyes do you understand me
In ways I could've went out, too many to count Was it the trigger happy crackers that the give clout Was it the young nigga, blasting frustrated cause the cash out Niggas know how to act in a drought See baby I realized, my definition of a real nigga was skewed My views by new mixtapes confirmed the shit I learned from in the streets was true That real niggas don't when they beef with you just 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 school, ducking cops Ducking rules, hugging that don't love you I pray you find a with goals and point of views Much broader than the corner, if not gon' corner you Into a box, where son don't even know his pops And the cyclical nature of doing time 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 gonna his life soon And sadly if you're listening now it must mean true But maybe there's a chance that not And this album remains locked in a hard drive valuable jewels And I can teach you this in like I'm teaching you to tie your own shoes I love you and I to God I don't lose you For your only
For eyes For eyes only For your For eyes only For your eyes do you
One day your daddy called me, me he had a funny feeling What he'd been dealing lately, he wasn't telling I tried to pick his brains, still he wasn't But I could feel the of panic in his voice and it was chilling He said "Jermaine, I knew since we was children I never asked for 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, send my In case I get a chance to speak again I won't forget the weekends spent at your crib That's the way I wished my family But my granny was in the 'jects I had to interject like, "Nigga what you talking 'bout? is you getting at?" He said "Listen, I got no time to into 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 living on is With that I'm proud to say I was a father Write my down and if I pass go play 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 perspective is a real one, another lost Ville son I dedicate these words to you and all the other by all the mass incarceration in this nation That sent your pops to prison when he education Sometimes I think this 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 girl to take back to with Little and Cole World barely one years old, now it's thirty years later making sure the story's told Girl daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was cold Not he was the first to get some pussy twelve years old Not becuase he used to come through in the Caddy on some Not 'cause he from bagging up them grams to serving Os Now your daddy was a real nigga, not he was hard Not because he a life of crime and sat behind some bars Not he screamed fuck the law, although that was true Your daddy was a real nigga 'cos he you" For eyes only