For eyes only (for eyes)
For your eyes only, for eyes only (for eyes)
For eyes only
Hey Niggas be dying on the It my dreams faded for far too long, the consequences deadly Can't visualize as nothing but a criminal Control the block, serving up and stay subliminal Cause niggas is hard headed, they letting off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to what can cause Ain't no coming back, family 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 like I ain't the one who put them Jays on her Like I ain't out in the like that I might be low for the moment but I will bounce Despite the charges, to the wall I fight regardless, "fuck the law", my life 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 mean hyperbolic I try to find employment even if the swiper But felonies be making life the hardest the temptation to run up and swipe a wallet Or run up on yard, snatch your daughter bike and pawn it That's why I write 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 my life is on it (For eyes) Let her my life is on For your only
For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me For eyes do you understand For eyes do you understand me For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you 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 sure if I believe in God But because you still He got me praying that the spiritual is So I can be a part of you still, my pops was too So I how part of you feels Maybe you hate me, maybe you me, maybe you spite me Life goes in cycles, maybe you'll date a nigga just me I hope not, I'm of dope spots And fiends that smoke I've seen far too many hopes rot I'm this 'cause me and the devil had a dance I see death round the corner, in advance Don't know if I had a chance At a I'm a failure, addicted to pushing paraphernalia But Daddy had dreams once, my eyes had a gleam Innocence by the age of eight years My Pops shot up, drug addicted So Granny raised me in where thugs was hanging Blood was the concrete Older niggas I loved talked like they was above maintaining a sheet That slow money, picked up the family By the age of thirteen, six years later was 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 name that I could think of For the thing 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 be the one that set examples that were never set for me I'm living fast, but not fast enough cause karma keeps 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 your do you understand For eyes do you understand me For your do you understand For your do you understand me For your do you understand For eyes do you understand me
In ways I could've went out, too many to count Was it the trigger happy crackers that the badges give Was it the young nigga, frustrated cause the cash running out Niggas don't how to act in a drought See baby girl I realized, my of a real nigga was skewed My views by new mixtapes That confirmed the shit I learned from in the streets was real niggas don't speak when they beef with you They pull up on your street, let the heat have you And if a real nigga hungry he gon' eat your I was a fool, spent all my time school, ducking cops Ducking rules, hugging that don't love you I pray you find a nigga goals and point of views Much than the corner, if not it's gon' corner 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 tragedy on news I got the feeling your Daddy gonna lose his life soon And sadly if you're listening now it mean it's true 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 like I'm teaching you to tie your own I love you and I hope to God I don't you For your only
For eyes For your eyes For eyes For your eyes For eyes do you understand
One day your daddy called me, me he had a funny feeling What he'd dealing with lately, he wasn't telling I tried to pick his brains, still he 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 times was hard I never 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 that shit was in my blood, you my life I know momma nigga, send my love In I never get a chance to speak again I won't forget the weekends spent at your crib That's the way I my family lived But my crib 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 dive into But I've been having premonitions, just it visions from the other side I got a feeling I won't see tomorrow, like the time I'm 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 record for your eyes only, don't you ever scratch it disrespect it This perspective is a real one, another Ville son I dedicate these to you and all the other children Affected by all the mass incarceration in this sent your pops to prison when he needed education Sometimes I think this segregation would've done us Although that means I would never be 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 your daddy was a real nigga, not he was cold Not because he was the first to get some pussy twelve old Not becuase he used to through in the Caddy on some vogues Not 'cause he went from bagging up grams to serving Os Now your was a real 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, although was true Your daddy was a real nigga he loved you" For your eyes