For your eyes (for eyes)
For your eyes only, for your eyes (for eyes)
For your eyes
Hey be dying on the daily It seems my faded for far too long, the consequences deadly Can't visualize myself as but a criminal Control the block, serving up and stay subliminal Cause young niggas is hard headed, letting off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to what death can Ain't no back, family dressed in black Plus it's hot now, the cops outside it's hard to flip a And my daughter gotta eat, her mama be me like I ain't 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 is lawless what you call it Ain't got to be no psychic to see this is the farthest thing from heaven This is hell and I mean that hyperbolic I try to find employment even if the chargeless But these be making life the hardest Resisting the temptation to run up and a wallet Or run up on your yard, snatch your daughter bike and it That's why I this sonnet If the pressure get too much for me to take and I Play this tape for my daughter and let her know my is on it Let her my life is on it (For eyes) Let her my life is on For eyes only
For your do you understand For eyes do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me For your do you understand For your eyes do you me For your 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 you still alive He got me praying that the is real So I can be a of you still, my pops was killed too So I know how part of you you hate me, maybe you miss me, maybe you spite me Life goes in cycles, maybe date a nigga just like me I hope not, I'm tired of dope 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 death round the corner, apologizing in Don't know if I ever had a At a glance I'm a failure, to pushing paraphernalia But Daddy had dreams once, my eyes had a gleam Innocence disappeared by the age of eight My Pops shot up, related 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, up the family business By the age of thirteen, six years was handed sentence Round the same time you came in this Me and your mama thinking, the fuck we naming this girl? I told her Nina, the name that I could think of For the prettiest my eyes 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 were never 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 you understand
For your do you understand For eyes do you understand me For your eyes do you 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
In several ways I could've went out, too to count Was it the trigger crackers that the badges give clout Was it the nigga, blasting frustrated cause the cash running out Niggas know how to act in a drought See baby girl I realized, my definition of a real nigga was My views by new mixtapes That confirmed the shit I learned from in the was true real niggas don't speak when they beef with you They just pull up on your street, let the have you And if a nigga hungry he gon' eat your food I was a fool, spent all my time school, ducking 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 gon' you Into a box, where your son don't know his pops And the cyclical nature of time continues My worst fear is one day that you come home from school and see your face while hearing 'bout tragedy on news I got the strangest 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 remains locked in a drive like valuable jewels And I can you this in person like I'm teaching you to tie your own shoes I love you and I hope to God I don't you For your eyes
For your For your only For eyes For eyes only For eyes do you understand
One day your daddy called me, told me he had a funny What he'd been with lately, he wasn't telling I tried to his brains, still he wasn't revealing But I could feel the sense of in his voice and it was chilling He said "Jermaine, I knew since we was I never asked for nothing times was hard I never had discussions with you begging you to help me I dealt the repercussions of my actions I you tried to steer me away from that shit But shit was in my blood, you know my life I know your momma nigga, my love In case I never get a chance to speak I forget the weekends spent sleeping at your crib That's the way I wished my lived But my granny was in the 'jects I had to interject like, "Nigga you talking 'bout? Fuck is you getting at?" He said "Listen, I got no time to into descriptions But been having premonitions, just call 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 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, you ever scratch it disrespect it This is a real one, another lost Ville son I dedicate words to you and all the other 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 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 one years 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 years 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 was a real nigga, not 'cos he was hard Not because he a life of crime and sat behind some bars Not he screamed fuck the law, although that was true Your daddy was a real 'cos he loved you" For your only