For your eyes (for eyes)
For your only, for your eyes only (for eyes)
For eyes only
Hey be dying on the daily It seems my dreams faded for far too long, the consequences Can't myself as nothing but a criminal Control the block, up rocks and stay subliminal Cause young niggas is hard headed, they off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to what death can no coming back, family dressed in black Plus it's hot now, the outside it's hard to flip a pack And my daughter gotta eat, her mama be stressing me like I 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, "fuck the law", my life is lawless That's you call it Ain't got to be no psychic to see this is the farthest thing from heaven This is hell and I don't mean hyperbolic I try to find even if the swiper chargeless But these felonies be making the hardest Resisting the temptation to run up and a wallet Or run up on your yard, snatch daughter bike and pawn it why I write this sonnet If the get too much for me to take and I break Play this tape for my daughter and let her my life is on it Let her my life is on it (For eyes) Let her my life is on For your only
For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For your do you understand For eyes do you understand me
You're probably grown now so this hit you If you're hearing this it means I'm no longer with you In the physical, not sure if I believe 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 how part of you feels you hate me, maybe you miss me, maybe you spite me Life goes in cycles, maybe you'll date a just like me I hope not, I'm of dope spots And fiends that rocks I've seen far too niggas hopes rot I'm writing 'cause me and the devil had a dance I see death the corner, apologizing in advance Don't know if I had a chance At a glance I'm a failure, addicted to pushing But Daddy had once, my eyes had a gleam once Innocence disappeared by the age of years My Pops up, drug related Mama So Granny raised me in where thugs was hanging Blood was staining the Older niggas I loved talked like they was maintaining a time sheet That slow money, picked up the family By the age of thirteen, six later was handed sentence 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 that I could 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 for me to ever be the one that set examples that were never set for me I'm living fast, but not enough cause karma keeps catching up to me And if my past becomes the death of me, I hope you
For your do you understand For your do you understand me For your do you understand For your eyes do you me For your eyes do you For your do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me
In several I could've went out, too many to count Was it the trigger happy crackers the badges give clout Was it the young nigga, blasting cause the cash running out don't know how to act in a drought See girl I realized, my definition 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 they with you They 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 ducking school, cops Ducking rules, hugging blocks that don't 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 even know his And the cyclical nature of doing 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 strangest feeling Daddy gonna lose his life soon And if you're listening now it must mean it's true But maybe there's a that it's not And this album remains in a hard drive like valuable 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 eyes only
For eyes For eyes only For your For your only For eyes do you understand
One day your daddy called me, me he had a funny feeling he'd been dealing with 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 and it was chilling He said "Jermaine, I knew we was children I never asked for nothing When was hard I never had discussions with you begging you to help me I with the repercussions of my actions I know you tried to steer me away that shit But that was in my blood, you know my life I your momma nigga, send my love In I never get a chance to speak again I won't forget the weekends spent sleeping at your the way I wished my family lived But my granny was in the 'jects I had to interject like, "Nigga 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 said 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 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 children Affected by all the mass in this nation That sent your pops to prison when he needed Sometimes I think this would've done us better Although that means I would never be 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 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 because he was the to get some pussy twelve years old Not becuase he used to through in the Caddy on some vogues Not 'cause he went from bagging up them grams to Os Now your was a real nigga, not 'cos he was hard Not because he lived a life of crime and sat behind bars Not because he screamed the law, although that was true Your daddy was a nigga 'cos he loved you" For eyes only