For eyes only (for eyes)
For eyes only, for your eyes only (for eyes)
For eyes only
Hey Niggas be on the daily It seems my dreams faded for far too long, the deadly Can't visualize myself as nothing but a Control the block, serving up rocks and subliminal Cause young niggas is headed, they letting off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to what death can Ain't no coming back, family dressed in Plus hot now, the cops outside it's hard to flip a pack And my daughter gotta eat, her mama be stressing me like I the one who put them Jays on her feet Like I ain't out in the field like 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 is lawless That's what you it Ain't got to be no psychic to see this is the farthest thing from heaven This is hell and I don't that hyperbolic I try to find employment even if the chargeless But felonies be making life the hardest the temptation to run up and swipe a wallet Or run up on your yard, snatch daughter bike and pawn it That's why I write sonnet If the pressure get too much for me to and I break Play this for my daughter and let her know my life is on it Let her know my is on it (For eyes) Let her know my is on For eyes only
For your eyes do you For your do you understand me For your eyes do you For your do you understand me For your do you understand For eyes do you understand me For your do you understand For your do you understand me
You're grown now so this song'll hit you If you're hearing this it means unfortunately I'm no with you In the physical, not sure if I believe in God But because you alive He got me praying that the spiritual is So I can be a part of you still, my pops was too So I know how of you feels Maybe you hate me, you miss me, maybe you spite me Life in cycles, maybe 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 niggas rot I'm writing 'cause me and the devil had a dance I see round the corner, apologizing in advance Don't know if I ever had a At a I'm a failure, addicted to pushing paraphernalia But had dreams once, my eyes had a gleam once Innocence disappeared by the age of eight My shot up, drug 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, picked up the business By the age of thirteen, six later was handed sentence the same time you came in this world Me and your thinking, what the fuck we naming this girl? I her Nina, the prettiest name 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 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 of me, I hope you understand
For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me For your do you understand For eyes do you understand me For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For your do you understand For your do you understand 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, frustrated cause the cash running out Niggas don't know how to act in a See baby girl I realized, my definition of a nigga was skewed My views misshaped by new That the shit I learned from in the streets was true That real niggas speak when they beef with you They just pull up on your street, let the heat you And if a real hungry he gon' eat your food I was a fool, spent all my ducking school, ducking cops Ducking rules, blocks that don't love you I pray you find a nigga goals and point of views Much broader than the corner, if not it's gon' you Into a box, where son don't even know his pops And the cyclical nature of doing continues My worst fear is one day that you come home from school and see your father while hearing 'bout tragedy on news I got the strangest feeling your Daddy gonna his life soon And if you're listening now it must mean it's true But maybe there's a chance that not And this album remains locked in a hard drive valuable jewels And I can teach you this in person like I'm you to tie your own shoes I love you and I hope to God I don't you For eyes only
For your For your only For your For your only For your do you understand
One day daddy called me, told me he had a funny feeling he'd been dealing with lately, he wasn't telling I tried to pick his brains, still he 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 discussions you begging you to help me I dealt with the repercussions of my I you tried to steer me away from that shit But that shit was in my blood, you my life I know your momma nigga, my love In I never get a chance to speak again I won't forget the weekends spent sleeping at your That's the way I wished my lived But my granny was in the 'jects I had to interject like, "Nigga what you talking 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 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 record for your eyes only, don't you ever scratch it disrespect it This perspective is a one, another lost Ville son I dedicate these to you and all the other children Affected by all the mass incarceration in nation sent your pops to prison when he needed education Sometimes I think segregation would've done us better Although 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 World 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 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 'cos he was Not because he lived a life of crime and sat behind bars Not because he screamed fuck the law, although was true daddy was a real nigga 'cos he loved you" For your eyes