For your only (for eyes)
For your eyes only, for your eyes (for eyes)
For eyes only
Hey be dying on the daily It seems my dreams faded for far too long, the deadly visualize myself as nothing but a criminal Control the block, serving up and stay subliminal Cause young is hard headed, they letting off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to what can cause no coming 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 ain't out in the field like I might be low for the but I will 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 like the farthest thing heaven This is hell and I don't mean hyperbolic I try to find employment even if the swiper But these felonies be making life the the temptation to run up and swipe a wallet Or run up on your yard, snatch your bike and pawn it why I write this sonnet If the get too much for me to take and I break Play this for my daughter 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 your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For eyes 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 eyes do you understand me
You're grown now so this song'll hit you If you're hearing this it unfortunately I'm no longer with you In the physical, not even sure if I in God But because you alive He got me praying the spiritual is real So I can be a part of you still, my pops was too So I know how of you feels Maybe you hate me, maybe you miss me, you spite me Life goes in cycles, maybe you'll a nigga just like me I hope not, I'm tired of spots And fiends that smoke I've seen far too many niggas rot I'm writing this 'cause me and the had a dance I see round the corner, apologizing in advance Don't know if I ever had a At a glance I'm a failure, addicted to pushing But Daddy had dreams once, my eyes had a gleam Innocence disappeared by the age of years My Pops shot up, related Mama So Granny raised me in projects thugs was hanging was staining the concrete Older niggas I loved talked like they was above maintaining a time That slow money, picked up the business By the age of thirteen, six years later was sentence Round the same you came in this world Me and your mama thinking, what the fuck we this girl? I her Nina, the prettiest name that I could think of For the thing my eyes 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 set examples 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 you understand
For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For your do you understand For your do you understand me For your do you understand For your do you understand me
In several ways I could've went out, too to count Was it the trigger happy that 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 girl I realized, my definition of a real was skewed My views misshaped by new That confirmed the I learned from in the streets was true That real niggas don't speak they beef with you They just pull up on your street, let the have you And if a real nigga hungry he eat your food I was a fool, spent all my time ducking school, cops Ducking rules, hugging blocks that love you I pray you find a nigga goals and point of views Much broader than the corner, if not it's corner you Into a box, where your son even know his pops And the cyclical nature of 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 strangest feeling your Daddy gonna his life soon And sadly if you're listening now it must it's true But maybe there's a chance that not And this album remains locked in a drive like valuable jewels And I can teach you this in person like I'm teaching you to tie your own I you and I hope to God I don't lose you For your eyes
For eyes For your only For eyes For your only For eyes do you understand
One day your daddy called me, me he had a funny feeling What he'd been dealing with lately, he telling I tried to his brains, still he wasn't revealing But I could the sense of panic in his voice and it was chilling He said "Jermaine, I since we was children I never asked 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 shit was in my blood, you my life I know your momma nigga, my love In case I never get a chance to again I won't forget the weekends spent at your crib That's the way I wished my family But my granny crib was in the 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 been having premonitions, just call it visions from the other side I got a feeling I won't see tomorrow, like the I'm living on is borrowed With that said I'm to say I was a father Write my story and if I pass go play it for my daughter when she ready So I'm leaving you this for your eyes only, don't you ever scratch it disrespect it perspective is a real one, another lost Ville son I dedicate these to you and all the other children Affected by all the mass incarceration in nation That sent your to prison when 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 years making sure the story's told Girl your daddy was a real nigga, not he was cold Not because he was the first to get pussy twelve years old Not becuase he used to come in the Caddy on some vogues Not 'cause he went bagging 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, that was true daddy was a real nigga 'cos he loved you" For your eyes