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 dreams faded for far too long, the consequences Can't visualize myself as but a criminal Control the block, serving up and stay subliminal Cause young is hard headed, they letting off of adrenaline, ignorant to what death can cause Ain't no coming back, dressed in black Plus it's hot now, the cops 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 field that 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 life is what you call it Ain't got to be no psychic to see this is like the farthest thing from This is and I don't mean that hyperbolic I try to employment even if the swiper chargeless But these felonies be making life the Resisting the to run up and swipe a wallet Or run up on yard, snatch your daughter bike and pawn it That's why I this sonnet If the pressure get too for me to take and I break Play tape for my daughter and let her know my life is on it Let her know my is on it (For eyes) Let her my life is on For your only
For your eyes do you For your 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 eyes do you understand me
probably grown now so this song'll hit you If you're hearing this it means unfortunately I'm no longer you In the physical, not sure if I believe in God But because you alive He got me that the spiritual is real So I can be a of you still, my pops was killed too So I how part of you feels Maybe you hate me, you miss me, maybe you spite me goes in cycles, maybe you'll date a nigga just like me I not, I'm tired of dope spots And that smoke rocks I've seen far too many niggas rot I'm writing this 'cause me and the had a dance I see death round the corner, apologizing in know if I ever had a chance At a I'm a failure, addicted to pushing paraphernalia But had dreams once, my eyes had a gleam once disappeared by the age of eight years My Pops shot up, drug Mama So raised me in projects where thugs was hanging was staining the concrete Older I loved talked like they was above maintaining a time sheet That money, picked up the family business By the age of thirteen, six later was handed sentence Round the same you came in this world Me and your mama thinking, what the we naming this girl? I told her Nina, the prettiest that I could think of For the prettiest thing my eyes had seen I was nineteen, it took me two to see the trap, this crooked ass system set for me And now it's too for me to ever be the one that set examples that were never set for me I'm living fast, but not fast cause karma keeps catching up to me And if my past the death of me, I hope you understand
For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me For your eyes do you 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
In ways I could've went out, too many to count Was it the trigger happy crackers that the badges clout Was it the young nigga, blasting frustrated cause the 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 the shit I learned 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 hungry he gon' eat your I was a fool, spent all my time ducking school, cops Ducking rules, hugging blocks that don't you I pray you find a nigga with and point of views Much broader than the corner, if not it's corner you Into a box, where son don't even know his pops And the cyclical nature of doing continues My worst is one day that you come home from school and see your father face while hearing 'bout tragedy on news I got the strangest feeling your Daddy gonna his life soon And sadly if listening now it must mean it's true But maybe a chance that it's not And this album remains locked in a hard drive like valuable 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 don't you For eyes only
For your For eyes only For eyes For your only For your eyes do you
One day daddy called me, told me he had a funny feeling What he'd been dealing 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 voice and it was He said "Jermaine, I knew we was children I never asked for nothing When times was hard I never had discussions with you you to help me I dealt with the of my actions I know you tried to steer me away from that But that shit was in my blood, you know my I know your momma nigga, my love In I never get a chance to speak again I won't the weekends spent sleeping at your crib That's the way I wished my family But my crib was in the 'jects I had to like, "Nigga what you talking 'bout? Fuck is you getting at?" He said "Listen, I got no time to dive into But I've been having premonitions, just call it from the other side I got a feeling I won't see tomorrow, like the I'm living on is borrowed With that I'm proud to say I was a father Write my story down and if I pass go play it for my daughter she ready So I'm leaving you this for your eyes only, don't you ever scratch it disrespect it This is a real one, another lost Ville son I dedicate these words to you and all the other Affected by all the mass in this nation That sent your pops to prison he needed education Sometimes I think segregation would've done us better Although that means I would never be brought 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 daddy was a real nigga, not he was cold Not because he was the first to get pussy twelve years old Not becuase he used to come through in the Caddy on some Not 'cause he went from up them grams to serving Os Now your daddy was a real nigga, not he was hard Not because he lived a life of crime and sat some bars Not because he fuck the law, although that was true Your daddy was a nigga 'cos he loved you" For your only