For your eyes (for eyes)
For your eyes only, for your eyes (for eyes)
For eyes only
Hey be dying on the daily It my dreams faded for far too long, the consequences deadly Can't visualize myself as but a criminal Control the block, serving up rocks and stay young niggas is hard headed, they letting off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to what 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 gotta 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 like that I might be low for the moment but I bounce back the charges, back to the wall I fight regardless, Screaming "fuck the law", my is lawless That's what you 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 the hardest Resisting the temptation to run up and a wallet Or run up on your yard, snatch your bike and pawn it That's why I write sonnet If the get too much for me to take 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 my life is on For eyes only
For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me For your do you understand For your eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For eyes do you understand me
You're probably grown now so song'll hit you If you're this 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 that the spiritual is real So I can be a part of you still, my pops was too So I how part of you feels Maybe you hate me, maybe you miss me, you spite me Life goes in cycles, maybe you'll date a nigga just me I hope not, I'm tired of dope And fiends that rocks I've seen far too niggas hopes rot I'm writing this 'cause me and the devil had a I see death round the corner, apologizing in Don't know if I had a chance At a glance I'm a failure, addicted to paraphernalia But had dreams once, my eyes had a gleam once Innocence disappeared by the age of years My Pops shot up, related Mama So Granny raised me in projects where thugs was was staining the concrete Older niggas I loved talked like they was maintaining a time 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 your 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 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 enough cause karma keeps catching up to me And if my past becomes the of me, I hope you understand
For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For eyes do you understand me For eyes do you understand For eyes do you understand me
In several ways I could've out, too many to count Was it the happy crackers that the badges give clout Was it the young nigga, blasting cause the cash running out Niggas don't how to act in a drought See baby girl I realized, my definition of a nigga was skewed My misshaped by new mixtapes That confirmed the shit I learned in the streets was true That 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 hungry he gon' eat food I was a fool, spent all my time ducking school, cops Ducking rules, blocks that don't love you I you find a nigga with goals and point of views Much broader the corner, if not it's gon' corner you Into a box, where son don't even know his pops And the cyclical nature of doing time My worst fear is one day that you come home from school and see father face while hearing 'bout tragedy on news I got the strangest feeling your Daddy gonna lose his soon And sadly if you're listening now it must it's true But maybe there's a chance it's not And this album remains locked in a hard drive like jewels And I can teach you this in person I'm teaching you to tie your own shoes I love you and I hope to God I lose you For your eyes
For eyes For your only For your For your only For your eyes do you
One day your daddy called me, told me he had a funny What he'd dealing with lately, he wasn't telling I tried to pick his brains, he wasn't revealing But I could feel the sense of panic in his and it was chilling He said "Jermaine, I since we was children I never asked for nothing When times was hard I never had with you begging you to help me I dealt 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 know your nigga, send my love In case I never get a chance to speak I won't forget the weekends spent sleeping at crib the way I wished my family lived But my crib was in the 'jects I had to interject like, "Nigga what you 'bout? Fuck is you getting at?" He "Listen, I got no time to dive into descriptions But I've having premonitions, just call it visions from the other side I got a feeling I won't see tomorrow, the time I'm living on is borrowed With that said I'm to say I was a father Write my story down and if I pass go play it for my daughter when she So I'm leaving you this record for your eyes only, don't you scratch it disrespect it This perspective is a real one, another Ville son I dedicate these to you and all the other children by all the mass incarceration in this nation That sent your pops to prison he needed education I think this segregation would've done us better Although that means I would never be brought into this world 'cos my 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 daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was Not because he was the first to get some pussy years old Not becuase he used to come through in the Caddy on vogues Not 'cause he from bagging up them grams to serving Os Now your daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was Not he lived a life of crime and sat behind some bars Not because he screamed fuck the law, that was true daddy was a real nigga 'cos he loved you" For your eyes