For your eyes (for eyes)
For your eyes only, for your eyes (for eyes)
For eyes only
Hey Niggas be on the daily It seems my dreams faded for far too long, the consequences Can't visualize myself as but a criminal Control the block, up rocks and stay subliminal Cause young is hard headed, they letting off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to death can cause no coming back, family 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 Like I ain't out in the field like 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 is lawless That's what you it Ain't got to be no to see this is like the farthest thing from heaven This is hell and I don't that hyperbolic I try to find employment even if the swiper But these felonies be making life the 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 this sonnet If the pressure get too much for me to take and I Play this tape for my daughter and let her my life is on it Let her know my 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 your 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
You're probably grown now so song'll hit you If you're hearing this it unfortunately I'm no longer with you In the physical, not even if I believe in God But because you still He got me that the spiritual is real So I can be a part of you still, my 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 nigga just me I hope not, I'm tired of spots And that smoke rocks I've far too many niggas hopes rot I'm this 'cause me and the devil had a dance I see death round the corner, in advance know if I ever had a chance At a glance I'm a failure, addicted to paraphernalia But had dreams once, my eyes had a gleam once Innocence disappeared by the age of years My Pops shot up, related addicted So raised me in projects where thugs was hanging was staining the concrete Older niggas I loved talked like they was above maintaining a time That slow money, up the family business By the age of thirteen, six later was handed sentence Round the time you came in this world 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 fast, but not fast enough cause 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 eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For eyes do you understand me For your 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 don't know how to act in a drought See baby I realized, my definition of a real nigga was skewed My views by new mixtapes That the shit I learned 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 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 pray you find a nigga with and point of views Much broader the corner, if not it's gon' corner you Into a box, where your son don't even his pops And the nature of doing time continues 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 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 locked in a hard drive like valuable jewels And I can teach you this in person I'm teaching you to tie your own shoes I you and I hope to God I don't lose you For eyes only
For your For your eyes For your For eyes only For your eyes do you
One day daddy called me, told me he had a funny feeling What he'd been dealing with lately, he telling I tried to pick his brains, he wasn't revealing But I could the sense of panic in his voice and it was chilling He said "Jermaine, I knew we was children I never asked for nothing When times was hard I never had discussions you begging you to help me I dealt the repercussions of my actions 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 again I won't forget the weekends sleeping at your crib That's the way I my family lived But my crib was in the 'jects I had to like, "Nigga what you talking 'bout? Fuck is you getting at?" He said "Listen, I got no to dive into descriptions But I've been having premonitions, just call it from the other side I got a feeling I see tomorrow, like the time I'm living on is borrowed With that said I'm to say I was a father Write my story down and if I go play it for my daughter when she ready So I'm leaving you this record for your only, don't you ever scratch it disrespect it This perspective is a one, another lost Ville son I dedicate words to you and all the other children Affected by all the mass in this nation sent your pops to prison when he needed education Sometimes I think this segregation would've done us Although that 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 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 come in the Caddy on some vogues Not 'cause he from bagging up them grams to serving Os Now your daddy was a real nigga, not he was hard Not he lived a life of crime and sat behind some bars Not because he screamed the law, although that was true Your daddy was a real nigga he loved you" For your eyes