For your eyes (for eyes)
For eyes only, for your eyes only (for eyes)
For your eyes
Hey be dying on the daily It seems my dreams faded for far too long, the consequences visualize myself as nothing but a criminal Control the block, serving up rocks and subliminal Cause young is hard headed, they letting off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to death can cause Ain't no coming back, family dressed in Plus it's hot now, the outside it's 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 out in the field 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 got to be no psychic to see this is like the farthest thing from heaven This is hell and I mean that hyperbolic I try to employment even if the swiper chargeless But these felonies be life the hardest Resisting the temptation to run up and swipe a Or run up on your yard, your daughter bike and pawn it That's why I write sonnet If the get too much for me to take and I break Play tape for my daughter 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 eyes only
For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me For your do you understand For your do you understand me For your do you understand For your eyes do you me
You're probably grown now so this hit you If hearing this it means 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 know how of you feels Maybe you me, maybe you miss me, maybe you spite me goes in cycles, maybe you'll date a nigga just like me I not, I'm tired of dope spots And fiends that rocks I've seen far too many niggas rot I'm writing this me and the devil had a dance I see death round the corner, apologizing in Don't know if I ever had a At a glance I'm a failure, to pushing paraphernalia 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 staining the Older niggas I loved talked like they was maintaining a time sheet slow money, picked up the family business By the age of thirteen, six years later was handed Round the same you came in this world Me and mama thinking, what the fuck we naming this 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, crooked ass system set for me And now it's too late for me to ever be the one that set examples were never set for me I'm living fast, but not fast enough cause karma catching up to me And if my past becomes the death of me, I hope you
For your eyes do you For your do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me For your do you understand For eyes do you understand me For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me
In several ways I could've went out, too to count Was it the happy crackers that 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 definition of a nigga was skewed My views by new mixtapes That confirmed the shit I learned in the streets was true That real niggas don't speak they beef with you just pull up on your street, let the heat have you And if a real nigga hungry he eat your food I was a fool, spent all my ducking school, ducking cops rules, hugging blocks that don't love you I pray you find a nigga with goals and point of 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 you come home from school and see your father face while hearing 'bout tragedy on news I got the strangest feeling 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 like I'm teaching you to tie your own shoes I love you and I to God I don't lose you For your eyes
For eyes For eyes only For your For your eyes For eyes do you understand
One day your daddy called me, told me he had a feeling What he'd been dealing with lately, he wasn't 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 knew since we was children I never asked for 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 from that shit But that shit was in my blood, you know my I your momma nigga, send my love In case I never get a chance to again I won't forget the weekends spent sleeping at your That's the way I my family lived But my granny was in the 'jects I had to interject like, "Nigga what you talking 'bout? is you getting at?" He said "Listen, I got no time to 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 you this record for your eyes only, don't you ever scratch it disrespect it perspective is a real one, another lost Ville son I dedicate these words to you and all the other Affected by all the incarceration in this nation That sent your pops to prison he needed education Sometimes I think this segregation would've done us Although that means I would never be brought into this world 'cos my daddy was so thrilled when he found him a white girl to back to Jonesborough with Little Zach and Cole World barely one years old, now it's years later making sure the story's told Girl daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was cold Not because he was the first to get some pussy years old Not becuase he to come through in the Caddy on some vogues Not 'cause he went from bagging up them grams to Os Now daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was hard Not because he lived a life of and sat behind some bars Not because he screamed fuck the law, although that was Your was a real nigga 'cos he loved you" For eyes only