For eyes only (for eyes)
For your eyes only, for your eyes (for eyes)
For your only
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 niggas is hard headed, 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 gotta eat, her be stressing me like I ain't 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 That's you call it Ain't got to be no psychic to see this is like the farthest from heaven This is hell and I don't that hyperbolic I try to find employment even if the chargeless But these felonies be making life the the temptation to run up and swipe a wallet Or run up on your yard, your daughter bike and pawn it That's why I write this If the get too much 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 my life is on For eyes only
For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me
You're probably grown now so this hit you If you're hearing this it means I'm no longer with you In the physical, not even if I believe in God But because you still He got me praying the spiritual is real 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 miss me, you spite me Life goes in cycles, maybe date a nigga just like me I not, I'm tired of dope spots And fiends that smoke I've seen far too niggas hopes rot I'm writing this 'cause me and the devil had a I see death the corner, apologizing in advance Don't know if I had a chance At a I'm a failure, addicted to pushing paraphernalia But Daddy had once, my eyes had a gleam once disappeared by the age of eight years My Pops shot up, related Mama So Granny raised me in projects where was hanging was staining the concrete Older niggas I loved talked like they was above a time sheet That slow money, up the family business By the age of thirteen, six years was handed sentence Round the same time you in this world Me and your mama thinking, what the fuck we naming 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 felonies to see the trap, this crooked ass 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 karma keeps up to me And if my past becomes the death of me, I hope you
For your do you understand For your eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me For your do you understand For your do you understand me For your do you understand For your do you understand me
In several ways I could've out, too many to count Was it the trigger crackers 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 views by new mixtapes That confirmed the shit I from in the streets was true That real don't speak when they beef with you They just 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 ducking school, ducking cops Ducking rules, hugging blocks don't love you I you find a nigga with goals and point of views Much broader than the corner, if not gon' corner you Into a box, your son don't even know his pops And the nature of doing time continues My worst fear is one day you come home from school and see your father face while hearing 'bout tragedy on news I got the strangest feeling your Daddy lose his life 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 remains 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 only For your For your eyes For eyes do you understand
One day your daddy called me, told me he had a funny What he'd been dealing with lately, he 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 asked for nothing When times was hard I had discussions with you begging you to help me I dealt with the of my actions I you tried to steer me away from that shit But that was in my blood, you know my life I know your nigga, send my love In case I never get a chance to again I won't forget the weekends spent sleeping at crib That's the way I 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 to dive into descriptions But I've been having premonitions, call it visions from the other side I got a feeling I see tomorrow, like the time I'm living on is borrowed With said I'm proud to say I was a father Write my story and if I pass go play it for my daughter when she ready So I'm leaving you this for your eyes only, don't you ever scratch it disrespect it This perspective is a real one, another Ville son I dedicate these words to you and all the children Affected by all the mass incarceration in this That sent your to prison when he needed education Sometimes I think this segregation would've done us 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 World barely one years old, now it's thirty years later making sure the story's told your daddy 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 through in the Caddy on some vogues Not 'cause he went bagging up them grams to serving Os Now your daddy was a nigga, not 'cos he was hard Not because he lived a life of and sat behind some bars Not because he screamed fuck the law, that was true Your daddy was a real 'cos he loved you" For your eyes