For your only (for eyes)
For eyes only, for your eyes only (for eyes)
For your only
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 stay young niggas is hard headed, they letting off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to death can cause Ain't no coming back, family in black Plus hot now, the cops outside it's hard to flip a pack And my daughter eat, her mama be stressing me like I ain't the one who put them Jays on her feet Like I ain't out in the field like I be low for the moment but I will bounce back Despite the charges, to the wall I fight regardless, Screaming "fuck the law", my is lawless That's what you it Ain't got to be no psychic to see this is like the farthest thing heaven This is and I don't mean that hyperbolic I try to find employment even if the chargeless But these felonies be life the hardest Resisting the temptation to run up and a wallet Or run up on your yard, your daughter bike and pawn it That's why I write this If the pressure get too much for me to and I break Play this tape for my 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 your only
For your eyes do you For your 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 your eyes do you For your do you understand me
You're grown now so this song'll hit you If you're hearing this it 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 spiritual is So I can be a of you still, my pops 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 not, I'm tired of dope spots And that smoke rocks I've far too many niggas hopes rot I'm writing 'cause me and the devil had a dance I see round the corner, apologizing in advance Don't know if I had a chance At a glance I'm a failure, addicted to pushing But had dreams 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 was staining the concrete Older niggas I loved talked they was above maintaining a time sheet That slow money, picked up the family By the age of thirteen, six years was handed sentence Round the same time you came in world Me and mama thinking, what the fuck we naming this girl? I told her Nina, the prettiest that I could think of For the prettiest 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 cause keeps catching up to me And if my becomes the death of me, I hope you understand
For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me For your do you understand For your do you understand me For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For your eyes do you For your do you understand me
In several ways I went 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 Niggas don't know how to act in a See baby girl I realized, my definition of a nigga was skewed My misshaped by new mixtapes That confirmed the I learned from in the streets was true That real niggas don't speak when they with you They just 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 time ducking school, cops Ducking rules, hugging 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 corner you Into a box, where your son even know his pops And the nature 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 strangest feeling your Daddy gonna lose his soon And sadly if you're now it must 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 like I'm teaching you to tie your own shoes I love you and I hope to God I lose you For your only
For your 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 he'd been dealing with lately, he wasn't telling I tried to pick his brains, still he wasn't But I could the sense of panic in his voice 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 you begging you to help me I dealt with the of my actions I know you tried to me away from that shit But that shit was in my blood, you my life I know your momma nigga, my love In I never 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 granny crib was in the I had to interject like, "Nigga what you 'bout? Fuck is you getting at?" He said "Listen, I got no time to dive into 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 down and if I pass 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 perspective is a real one, another lost Ville son I dedicate these words to you and all the children Affected by all the incarceration in this nation That sent your to prison when he needed education Sometimes I think this segregation done us better Although that means I never be brought 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 old, now it's thirty years later making sure the story's told Girl your daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was Not because he was the first to get some pussy twelve 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 your daddy was a nigga, not 'cos he was hard Not because he a life of crime and sat behind some bars Not because he screamed fuck the law, although that was daddy was a real nigga 'cos he loved you" For eyes only