For your only (for eyes)
For your eyes only, for eyes only (for eyes)
For your only
Hey be dying on the daily It seems my dreams faded for far too long, the consequences Can't visualize myself as but a criminal the block, serving up rocks and stay subliminal Cause young niggas is hard headed, letting off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to what can cause Ain't no coming back, family in black Plus it's hot now, the outside it's hard 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 but I will bounce back Despite the charges, to the wall I fight regardless, Screaming "fuck the law", my life is what 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 that hyperbolic I try to find employment even if the swiper But these felonies be making the hardest Resisting the to run up and swipe a wallet Or run up on your yard, your daughter bike and pawn it That's why I this sonnet If the pressure get too for me to take and I break Play this tape for my daughter and let her know my is on it Let her know my is on it (For eyes) Let her my life is on For your eyes
For your do you understand For your eyes do you me For your eyes do you For your do you understand me For your 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 this it means unfortunately I'm no with you In the physical, not sure if I believe in God But you still alive He got me praying that the is real So I can be a part of you still, my was killed too So I know how of you feels Maybe you hate me, maybe you me, maybe you spite me Life goes in cycles, maybe you'll date a nigga like me I hope not, I'm of dope spots And fiends that rocks I've far too many niggas hopes rot I'm writing this 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 disappeared by the age of eight years My Pops shot up, related Mama So Granny raised me in projects where thugs was Blood was staining the niggas I loved talked like they was above maintaining a time sheet That slow money, up the family business By the age of thirteen, six years was handed sentence Round the same time you came in world Me and your mama thinking, the fuck we naming this girl? I told her Nina, the prettiest name that I think of For the prettiest my eyes had ever seen I was nineteen, it took me two felonies to see the trap, this crooked ass 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 cause karma keeps catching up to me And if my becomes the death of me, I hope you understand
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 your eyes do you me
In ways I could've went out, too many to count Was it the trigger crackers that the badges give clout Was it the young nigga, blasting cause the cash running out Niggas don't know how to act in a See baby girl I realized, my definition of a real was skewed My misshaped by new mixtapes That confirmed the shit I learned in the streets was true That real niggas don't when they beef with you They just pull up on your street, let the heat you And if a nigga hungry he gon' eat your food I was a fool, spent all my ducking school, ducking cops rules, hugging blocks that don't love you I you find 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 his pops And the cyclical of doing time continues My worst fear is one day that you come home from school and see your father face while hearing 'bout tragedy on I got the feeling your Daddy gonna lose 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 own shoes I love you and I to God I don't lose you For your only
For your For eyes only For your For eyes only For your eyes do you
One day your daddy me, told me he had a funny feeling What been dealing with lately, he wasn't telling I tried to pick his brains, still he revealing But I could feel the sense of in his voice and it was chilling He said "Jermaine, I knew since we was children I never for nothing When times was hard I had discussions with you begging you to help me I dealt the repercussions of my actions I know you tried to steer me away from shit But shit was in my blood, you know my life I know your momma nigga, send my In case I never get a to speak again I won't forget the weekends sleeping at your crib That's the way I 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 said "Listen, I got no to dive into descriptions But I've been having premonitions, just it visions from the other side I got a I won't see tomorrow, like the time I'm living on is borrowed With that I'm proud to say I was a father my story 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, you ever scratch it disrespect it This perspective is a real one, another lost son I dedicate these to you and all the other 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 brought into 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 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 to come through in the Caddy on some vogues Not 'cause he from bagging up them grams to serving Os Now daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos 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 'cos he you" For your only