For your eyes (for eyes)
For eyes only, for your eyes only (for eyes)
For your eyes
Hey Niggas be on the daily It seems my dreams faded for far too long, the deadly Can't visualize as nothing but a criminal Control the block, serving up and stay subliminal young niggas is hard headed, they letting off Full of adrenaline, to what death can cause Ain't no coming back, dressed in black Plus it's hot now, the cops outside it's hard to 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 out in the field like 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 is lawless 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 don't mean hyperbolic I try to employment even if the swiper chargeless But these felonies be making life the 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 your do you understand For your eyes do you me For your do you understand For eyes do you understand me For your do you understand For eyes do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me
You're grown now so this song'll hit you If you're hearing 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 spiritual is So I can be a of you still, my pops was killed too So I how part of you feels Maybe you hate me, maybe you miss me, maybe you me Life goes in cycles, maybe you'll date a nigga like me I not, I'm tired of dope spots And fiends smoke rocks seen far too many niggas hopes rot I'm this 'cause me and the devil had a dance I see death the corner, apologizing in advance Don't if I ever had a chance At a glance I'm a failure, addicted to pushing But Daddy had once, my eyes had a gleam once Innocence 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 I loved talked like they was above maintaining a time sheet That money, picked up the family business By the age of thirteen, six years was handed sentence Round the same time you came in this Me and your mama thinking, the fuck we naming this girl? I told her Nina, the prettiest name I could think of For the prettiest thing my had ever seen I was nineteen, it took me two to see the trap, this crooked ass system set for me And now it's too late for me to ever be the one that set 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 your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For eyes do you understand For eyes do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you 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 cause 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 views misshaped by new That confirmed the shit I learned from in the streets was That niggas don't speak when they beef with you just pull up on your street, let the heat have you And if a real nigga hungry he gon' eat food I was a fool, all my time ducking school, ducking cops Ducking rules, blocks that don't love you I you find a nigga with goals and point of views broader than the corner, if not it's gon' corner you Into a box, your 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 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 you this in person like I'm teaching you to tie your own shoes I love you and I hope to God I lose you For your only
For your For eyes only For eyes For your only For eyes do you understand
One day your daddy me, told me he had a funny feeling What he'd dealing with lately, he wasn't telling I to pick his brains, still he wasn't revealing But I feel the sense of panic in his voice and it was chilling He said "Jermaine, I knew since we was children I asked for nothing When times was 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 that But shit was in my blood, you know my life I your momma nigga, send my love In case I never get a chance to speak I won't forget the weekends sleeping at your crib That's the way I wished my family 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 having 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 said I'm proud to say I was a Write my down and if I pass go play it for my daughter when she ready So I'm leaving you this record for your eyes only, don't you scratch it disrespect it This is a real one, another lost Ville son I these words to you and all the other children Affected by all the mass incarceration in this That sent your pops to prison he needed education I think this segregation would've done us better Although that means I would never be brought into this world 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 later making sure the story's told Girl your daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was Not because he was the first to get some pussy 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 fuck the law, that was true daddy was a real nigga 'cos he loved you" For your only