For eyes only (for eyes)
For your only, for your eyes only (for eyes)
For your only
Hey be dying on the daily It my dreams faded for far too long, the consequences deadly visualize myself as nothing but a criminal Control the block, serving up and stay subliminal Cause young is hard headed, they letting off of adrenaline, ignorant to what death can cause Ain't no coming back, family in black Plus it's hot now, the cops it's hard to flip a pack And my daughter gotta eat, her mama be stressing me like I the one who put them Jays on her feet Like I ain't out in the field that I might be low for the but I will bounce 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 to see this is like the farthest thing from heaven This is hell and I don't mean hyperbolic I try to find employment if the swiper chargeless But these felonies be making life the Resisting the temptation to run up and 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 for me to take and I break 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 know my is on For your only
For your do you understand For your eyes do you me 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 your do you understand me
You're probably now so this song'll hit you If you're hearing it means unfortunately I'm no longer with you In the physical, not even sure if I in God But because you still He got me praying that the is real So I can be a part of you still, my pops was too So I know how part of you Maybe you 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 far too many niggas hopes rot I'm writing this 'cause me and the devil had a I see death round the corner, in advance Don't know if I had a chance At a glance I'm a failure, to pushing paraphernalia But Daddy had dreams once, my eyes had a gleam Innocence by the age of eight years My Pops shot up, related Mama So Granny raised me in projects where was hanging Blood was staining the Older niggas I loved talked like they was above a time sheet That slow money, picked up the family By the age of thirteen, six later was handed sentence Round the same time you came in this Me and your mama thinking, what the we naming this girl? I told her Nina, the prettiest name that I could of For the prettiest thing my eyes had ever 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 examples that never set for me I'm living fast, but not enough cause karma keeps catching up to me And if my past the death of me, I hope you understand
For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For your eyes do you For your do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me For eyes do you understand For eyes do you understand me
In several ways I could've went out, too many to Was it the trigger happy crackers that the give clout Was it the young nigga, frustrated 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 misshaped by new mixtapes That confirmed the shit I learned in the streets was true That real niggas don't speak when they with you They just pull up on street, let the heat have you And if a real nigga hungry he gon' eat your I was a fool, spent all my time ducking school, cops Ducking rules, blocks that don't love you I pray you find a nigga with goals and of views 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 of doing time continues My fear is one day that you come home from 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 it's 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 eyes only For eyes For your eyes For your do you understand
One day daddy called me, told me he had a funny feeling What he'd been 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 we was children I never asked for nothing When times was hard I never had discussions you begging you to help me I dealt with the of my actions I know you tried to steer me from that shit But that shit was in my blood, you know my I know your nigga, send my love In case I get a chance to speak again I won't forget the weekends sleeping at your crib the way I wished 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 "Listen, I got no time to dive into descriptions But been having premonitions, just call it visions from the other side I got a feeling I see tomorrow, like the time I'm living on is borrowed that said I'm proud to say I was a father Write my story down and if I pass go it for my daughter when she ready So I'm leaving you this record for your eyes only, don't you ever it disrespect it This perspective is a real one, another lost son I dedicate these to you and all the other children by all the mass incarceration in this nation That your pops to prison when he needed education Sometimes I this segregation 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 thirty years later making sure the story's told Girl your daddy was a nigga, not 'cos he was cold Not because he was the first to get some pussy twelve old Not becuase he used to come through in the Caddy on some Not 'cause he went from up them grams to serving Os Now daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was hard Not because he lived a of crime and sat behind some bars Not because he fuck the law, although that was true daddy was a real nigga 'cos he loved you" For your eyes