For eyes only (for eyes)
For your only, for your eyes only (for eyes)
For your only
Hey Niggas be dying on the It seems my faded for far too long, the consequences deadly Can't visualize as nothing but a criminal Control the block, serving up rocks and subliminal Cause niggas is hard headed, they letting off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to death can cause Ain't no coming back, dressed in black Plus it's hot now, the cops outside hard to flip a pack And my daughter gotta eat, her mama be stressing me I ain't the one who put them Jays on her feet I ain't out in the field like that I be low for the moment but I will bounce back Despite the charges, back to the wall I regardless, Screaming "fuck the law", my life is That's what you it Ain't got to be no psychic to see this is like the farthest thing heaven This is hell and I mean that hyperbolic I try to find employment even if the swiper But these be making life the hardest Resisting the to run up and swipe a wallet Or run up on your yard, snatch your daughter bike and it why I write this sonnet If the pressure get too much for me to take and I Play this for my daughter and let her know my life is on it Let her know my is on it (For eyes) Let her my life is on For your only
For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me For your eyes do you For your do you understand me For your do you understand 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 this it means unfortunately I'm no longer with you In the physical, not even if I believe in God But because you alive He got me praying that the is real So I can be a part of you still, my 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 you'll a nigga just like me I not, I'm tired of dope spots And fiends smoke rocks seen far too many niggas hopes rot I'm writing this 'cause me and the devil had a I see round the corner, apologizing in advance Don't if I ever 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 shot up, drug related Mama So Granny raised me in projects where thugs was was staining the concrete Older niggas I loved talked like was above maintaining a time sheet That slow money, up the family business By the age of thirteen, six later was handed sentence Round the same time you in this world Me and your mama thinking, the fuck we naming this girl? I her Nina, the prettiest name that I could think of For the prettiest thing my had ever seen I was nineteen, it me two felonies to see the trap, this crooked ass system set for me And now too late for me to ever be the one that set examples that were never set for me I'm living fast, but not fast enough cause karma keeps up to me And if my past the death of me, I hope you understand
For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me For your do you understand For eyes do you understand me For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For your do you understand For eyes do you understand me
In several ways I could've went out, too many to Was it the trigger happy crackers the badges give clout Was it the young nigga, blasting frustrated the cash running out Niggas know how to act in a drought See baby girl I realized, my of a real nigga was skewed My misshaped by new mixtapes That confirmed the shit I from in the streets was true That real niggas don't speak when beef with you just pull up on your street, let the heat have you And if a real nigga he gon' eat your food I was a fool, spent all my time school, ducking cops rules, hugging blocks that 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 don't 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 while hearing 'bout tragedy on news I got the strangest your Daddy gonna lose his life soon And sadly if you're now it must mean it's true But maybe a chance that 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 lose you For your eyes
For your For your only For your For your only For eyes do you understand
One day your daddy me, told me he had a funny feeling What he'd been dealing lately, he wasn't telling I tried to his brains, still he wasn't revealing But I could feel the sense of panic in his voice and it was He "Jermaine, I knew since we was children I never asked for nothing When times was hard I had discussions with you begging you to help me I dealt with the of my actions I know you tried to steer me away from that But that shit was in my blood, you know my I your momma nigga, send my love In case I get a chance to speak again I won't the weekends spent sleeping at your crib the way I wished my family lived But my crib was in the 'jects I had to interject like, "Nigga you talking 'bout? Fuck is you getting at?" He said "Listen, I got no time to dive into 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 living on is With said I'm proud to say I was a father 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 eyes only, you ever scratch it disrespect it This perspective is a real one, 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 prison 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 when he found him a white girl 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 your daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was cold Not because he was the to get some pussy twelve years old Not becuase he used to come through in the Caddy on vogues Not 'cause he went from up them grams to serving Os Now your daddy was a nigga, not 'cos he was hard 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 eyes