For your eyes (for eyes)
For your only, for your eyes only (for eyes)
For your eyes
Hey be dying on the daily It seems my dreams for far too long, the consequences deadly 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 what can cause Ain't no coming back, family dressed in Plus it's hot now, the cops outside it's hard to flip a And my daughter gotta eat, her mama be stressing me like I 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 will bounce the charges, back to the wall I fight regardless, Screaming "fuck the law", my life is That's what you it Ain't got to be no psychic to see this is like the farthest thing heaven This is hell and I don't that hyperbolic I try to find employment if the swiper chargeless But these be making life the hardest Resisting the to run up and swipe a wallet Or run up on your yard, snatch daughter bike and pawn it why I write this sonnet If the pressure get too much for me to 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 my life is on For your only
For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For your do you understand For your do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me
probably grown now so this song'll hit you If you're this it means unfortunately I'm no longer with you In the physical, not sure if I believe 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 Maybe you hate me, you miss me, maybe you spite me Life goes in cycles, you'll date a nigga just like me I hope not, I'm tired of spots And fiends that rocks I've seen far too many hopes rot I'm writing this 'cause me and the had a dance I see round the corner, apologizing in advance Don't know if I ever had a At a glance I'm a failure, to pushing paraphernalia But Daddy had dreams once, my had a gleam once Innocence disappeared by the age of eight My Pops shot up, drug addicted So Granny raised me in where thugs was hanging Blood was staining the 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 same time you came in this Me and mama thinking, what the fuck we naming this girl? I told her Nina, the prettiest name I could think of For the prettiest thing my 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 that were set for me I'm living fast, but not fast cause karma keeps catching up to me And if my past becomes the death of me, I hope you
For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me
In several I could've went out, too many to count Was it the trigger happy that the badges give clout Was it the young nigga, blasting frustrated cause the cash out Niggas know how to act in a drought See baby girl I realized, my definition of a real nigga was My misshaped by new mixtapes That confirmed the shit I from in the streets was true real niggas don't speak when they beef with you They just pull up on your street, let the heat you And if a real nigga he gon' eat your food I was a fool, spent all my time ducking school, cops Ducking rules, hugging blocks don't love you I pray you find a with goals and point of views Much than the corner, if not it's gon' corner you a box, where your son don't even know his pops And the cyclical nature of doing time My worst fear is one day that you come from school and see your father face while hearing 'bout tragedy on news I got the strangest your Daddy gonna lose his life soon And sadly if listening now it must mean it's true But maybe there's a that it's not And this album remains locked in a hard drive like valuable And I can teach you this in 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 eyes For your only For your For eyes only For eyes do you understand
One day your 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 wasn't But I could feel the sense of panic in his and it was chilling He said "Jermaine, I knew since we was children I never asked for When times was hard I never had discussions with you you to help me I with 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 your momma nigga, send my love In case I never get a chance to again I won't forget the spent sleeping at your crib That's the way I wished my family But my granny was in the 'jects I had to interject like, "Nigga what you talking 'bout? Fuck is you at?" He said "Listen, I got no to dive into descriptions But I've been having premonitions, just call it visions from the side I got a I won't 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 eyes only, don't you ever scratch it disrespect it This is a real one, another lost Ville son I dedicate these to you and all the other children Affected by all the mass incarceration in nation That sent pops to prison when he needed education Sometimes I this segregation would've done us better that means I would 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 barely one years old, now it's thirty years later making sure the story's told Girl your was a real nigga, not 'cos he was cold Not because he was the to get some pussy twelve years old Not becuase he used to come through in the Caddy on some 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 lived a life of crime and sat behind bars Not because he screamed fuck the law, although was true Your daddy was a real nigga he loved you" For eyes only