For eyes only (for eyes)
For your eyes only, for eyes only (for eyes)
For your only
Hey Niggas be 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 young niggas is hard headed, they off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to what can cause Ain't no 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 mama be stressing me like I ain't the one who put them Jays on her Like I ain't out in the field that I might be low for the moment but I will bounce the charges, back to the wall I fight regardless, Screaming "fuck the law", my life is what you call it Ain't got to be no to see this is like the farthest thing from heaven This is hell and I don't mean hyperbolic I try to find employment even if the chargeless But these felonies be making the hardest Resisting the temptation to run up and a wallet Or run up on your yard, snatch your daughter bike and it That's why I write this 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 my life is on it (For eyes) Let her know my is on For your eyes
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 do you understand me For your 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 sure if I in God But because you still He got me praying that the spiritual is So I can be a of you still, my pops was killed too So I know how of you feels you hate me, maybe you miss me, maybe you spite me Life goes in cycles, maybe date a nigga just like me I not, I'm tired of dope spots And fiends that smoke I've far too many niggas 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 ever had a At a glance I'm a failure, to pushing paraphernalia But Daddy had dreams once, my eyes had a gleam Innocence by the age of eight years My Pops shot up, drug Mama So raised me in projects where thugs was hanging was staining the concrete Older niggas I loved talked like they was maintaining a time sheet slow money, picked up the family business By the age of thirteen, six years later was handed Round the same you came in this world Me and your mama thinking, what the fuck we naming girl? I told her Nina, the prettiest name I could think of For the prettiest my eyes had ever seen I was nineteen, it took me two felonies to see the trap, this crooked ass 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 fast, but not fast enough cause karma keeps catching up to me And if my becomes the death of me, I hope you understand
For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For eyes 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
In several ways I went out, too many to count Was it the trigger happy crackers that the give clout Was it the young nigga, blasting frustrated 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 from in the streets was true That real niggas don't speak when 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, ducking Ducking rules, hugging blocks don't love you I pray you a nigga with goals and point of views Much broader than the corner, if not it's gon' you Into a box, where your son even know his pops And the cyclical of doing time continues 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 feeling your Daddy gonna his life soon And sadly if you're listening now it must it's true But maybe there's a chance it's not And this album remains in a hard drive like valuable jewels And I can teach you this in person like I'm teaching you to tie your own I love you and I hope to God I don't you For eyes only
For eyes For eyes only For eyes For your only For your eyes do you
One day your daddy me, told me he had a funny feeling What he'd dealing with lately, he wasn't telling I tried to pick his brains, he wasn't revealing But I could feel the sense of panic in his voice and it was He said "Jermaine, I knew since we was children I asked for nothing times was hard I never had discussions with you begging you to help me I dealt with the repercussions of my I know you to steer me away from that shit But shit was in my blood, you know my life I know your momma nigga, my love In case I never get a chance to speak I won't forget the weekends spent sleeping at your the way I wished my family lived But my crib was in the 'jects I had to interject like, "Nigga what you talking Fuck is you getting at?" He said "Listen, I got no to dive into descriptions But I've been having premonitions, just it visions from the other side I got a feeling I won't see tomorrow, like the time I'm on is borrowed With that said I'm to say I was a father Write my story down and if I pass go it for my daughter when she ready So I'm leaving you this record for your eyes only, you ever scratch it disrespect it This perspective is a real one, another lost son I dedicate these words to you and all the children Affected by all the incarceration in this nation That sent your pops to prison he needed education Sometimes I think segregation would've done us better Although 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 Jonesborough with Little Zach and Cole World one years old, now it's 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 twelve years old Not becuase he used to through in the Caddy on some vogues Not 'cause he went from bagging up grams to serving Os Now daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was hard Not because he lived a life of crime and sat some bars Not because he screamed fuck the law, although that was Your daddy was a real 'cos he loved you" For eyes only