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 faded for far too long, the deadly visualize myself as nothing but a criminal Control the block, up rocks and stay subliminal Cause young niggas is hard headed, letting off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to death 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 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 moment but I bounce back Despite the charges, to the wall I fight regardless, Screaming "fuck the law", my is lawless what 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 mean hyperbolic I try to employment even if the swiper chargeless But these felonies be life the hardest Resisting the to run up and swipe a wallet Or run up on yard, snatch your 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 and let her know my life is on it Let her my life is on it (For eyes) Let her my life is on For your eyes
For eyes do you understand For eyes do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me For your do you understand For your eyes do you me
You're probably grown now so this hit you If you're hearing it means unfortunately I'm no longer with you In the physical, not even sure if I in God But you still alive 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 Maybe you hate me, maybe you miss me, maybe you me goes 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 niggas hopes rot I'm writing this 'cause me and the devil had a I see death round the corner, 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 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 Blood was the concrete Older niggas I loved talked they was above maintaining a time sheet slow money, picked up the family business By the age of thirteen, six years was handed sentence Round the same you came 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 it's too for me to ever be the one that set examples that were never set for me I'm living fast, but not fast enough karma keeps catching up to me And if my past becomes the death of me, I hope you
For eyes do you understand For eyes do you understand me For your do you understand For your do you understand me For eyes do you understand For eyes do you understand me For eyes 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 that the give clout Was it the young nigga, blasting frustrated cause the running out Niggas don't know how to act in a See baby girl I realized, my definition of a real was skewed My views by new mixtapes That confirmed the I learned from in the streets was true That real don't speak when they beef with you They just pull up on your street, let the heat you And if a real hungry he gon' eat your food I was a fool, spent all my time ducking school, cops rules, hugging blocks that don't love you I pray you find a nigga with and point of views Much than the corner, if not it's gon' corner you Into a box, your son don't even know his pops And the cyclical of doing time continues My worst fear is one day that you come home school and see your father face while hearing 'bout tragedy on news I got the feeling your Daddy gonna lose his life soon And sadly if you're listening now it must mean it's But maybe there's a that it's not And this album remains locked in a hard drive like jewels And I can teach you in person like I'm teaching you to tie your own shoes I love you and I to God I don't lose you For your eyes
For eyes For your only For eyes For your only For your eyes do you
One day your daddy called me, told me he had a feeling What been dealing with lately, he wasn't telling I tried to pick his brains, he wasn't revealing 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 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 tried to steer me away from shit But that 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 at your crib That's the way I wished my lived But my granny was in the 'jects I had to like, "Nigga what you talking 'bout? Fuck is you getting at?" He "Listen, I got no time to dive into descriptions But I've been premonitions, just call 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 I'm proud 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 record for your eyes only, don't you ever scratch it disrespect it This perspective is a one, another lost Ville son I dedicate these words to you and all the other Affected by all the mass incarceration in nation That sent your pops to prison he needed education Sometimes I think this segregation would've us better 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 Jonesborough with Little Zach and Cole World barely one years old, now it's thirty years later making sure the story's your 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 in the Caddy on some vogues Not 'cause he went from bagging up grams to serving Os Now your was a real nigga, not 'cos he was hard Not because he lived a life of crime and sat behind some Not because he screamed fuck the law, that was true Your was a real nigga 'cos he loved you" For your eyes