For eyes only (for eyes)
For your only, for your eyes only (for eyes)
For your only
Hey Niggas be on the daily It seems my dreams faded for far too long, the consequences Can't visualize myself as nothing but a Control the block, serving up and stay subliminal Cause young niggas is hard headed, letting off Full of adrenaline, to what death can cause Ain't no coming back, family dressed in Plus it's hot now, the cops outside it's to flip a pack And my daughter gotta eat, her mama be stressing me like I ain't the one who put Jays on her feet Like I out in the field like that I might be low for the moment but I will back the charges, back to the wall I fight regardless, Screaming "fuck the law", my is lawless what you call it Ain't got to be no psychic to see this is the farthest thing from heaven This is and I don't mean that hyperbolic I try to find even if the swiper chargeless But these felonies be making the hardest 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 pressure get too much for me to take and I Play tape for my daughter and let her know my life is on it Let her know my is on it (For eyes) Let her my life is on For your only
For your do you understand For your do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For your eyes do you For your do you understand me
You're grown now so this song'll hit you If hearing this it means unfortunately I'm no longer with you In the physical, not even sure if I in God But you still alive He got me praying that the spiritual is So I can be a part of you still, my was killed too So I know how of you feels you hate me, maybe you miss me, maybe you spite me Life in cycles, maybe you'll date a nigga just like me I hope not, I'm of dope spots And fiends that smoke I've seen far too niggas hopes rot I'm writing 'cause me and the devil had a dance I see death the corner, apologizing in advance Don't know if I had a chance At a glance I'm a failure, addicted to paraphernalia But Daddy had once, my eyes had a gleam once Innocence disappeared by the age of years My shot up, drug related addicted So Granny me in projects where thugs was hanging Blood was staining the Older niggas I loved talked like they was above a time sheet That 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 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 that set that were never set for me I'm living fast, but not fast enough karma keeps catching up to me And if my past the death of me, I hope you understand
For eyes do you understand For your 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 For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me
In several ways I could've out, too many to count Was it the trigger happy crackers that the badges give 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 of a real nigga was skewed My views misshaped by new That confirmed the shit I from in the streets was true That real niggas don't speak when they beef you They just pull up on street, let the heat have you And if a nigga hungry he gon' eat your food I was a fool, spent all my time ducking school, cops Ducking rules, hugging that don't love you I pray you find a with 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 you come home from school and see your father face while hearing 'bout tragedy on news I got the feeling your Daddy gonna lose his life soon And sadly if you're listening now it must mean true But maybe there's a chance that not And album remains locked in a hard drive like valuable jewels And I can teach you in person like 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 only For eyes For your eyes For your eyes do you
One day your daddy called me, told me he had a funny What he'd been dealing lately, he wasn't telling I tried to his brains, still he wasn't revealing But I could feel the sense of panic in his and it was chilling He said "Jermaine, I knew since we was children I asked for nothing When times was hard I never had discussions with you 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 nigga, send my love In I never get a chance to speak again I won't the weekends spent sleeping at your crib the way I wished my family lived But my granny crib was in the I had to interject like, "Nigga what you talking 'bout? is you getting at?" He "Listen, I got no time 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 I'm proud 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 these words to you and all the children Affected by all the mass 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 him a white girl to take back to Jonesborough with Little and Cole World barely one years old, now it's thirty years later 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 some twelve years old Not becuase he used to come through in the Caddy on vogues Not he went from bagging up them grams to serving Os Now your daddy was a nigga, not 'cos he was hard Not because he lived a life of crime and sat some bars Not because he screamed fuck the law, that was true Your daddy was a real 'cos he loved you" For eyes only