For your eyes (for eyes)
For your eyes only, for your eyes (for eyes)
For eyes only
Hey be dying 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 and stay subliminal Cause young is hard headed, they letting off Full of adrenaline, to what death can cause Ain't no coming back, dressed in black Plus it's hot now, the cops outside it's to flip a pack And my daughter gotta eat, her mama be stressing me like I ain't the one who put them Jays on her Like I ain't out in the like that I be low for the moment but I will bounce back Despite the charges, to the wall I fight regardless, "fuck the law", my life is lawless That's what you it Ain't got to be no psychic to see this is like the farthest thing heaven This is hell and I don't mean hyperbolic I try to find employment even if the swiper But these felonies be making the hardest Resisting the temptation to run up and swipe a Or run up on your yard, snatch daughter bike and pawn it why I write this 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 my life is on it (For eyes) Let her my life is on For eyes only
For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me For your do you understand For your do you understand me For your do you understand For your do you understand me
You're probably grown now so this hit you If hearing this it means unfortunately I'm no longer with you In the physical, not even 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 of you feels Maybe you hate me, maybe you miss me, maybe you me Life goes in cycles, maybe you'll date a nigga just me I hope not, I'm tired of dope And fiends that smoke I've seen far too many hopes rot I'm writing this 'cause me and the devil had a I see death the corner, apologizing in advance know if I ever had a chance At a glance I'm a failure, addicted to paraphernalia But Daddy had dreams once, my eyes had a gleam Innocence disappeared by the age of 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 slow money, picked up the family business By the age of thirteen, six years was handed sentence the same time you came 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 thing my 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 for me to ever be the one that set examples that were never set for me I'm fast, but not fast enough cause karma keeps catching up to me And if my past becomes the death of me, I you understand
For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me For your eyes do you For your do you understand me For your do you understand For your do you understand me
In several 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 cause the cash running out Niggas don't know how to act in a See baby girl I realized, my of a real nigga was skewed My views misshaped by new That confirmed the shit I learned from in the was true That real niggas don't speak they beef with you They pull up on your street, let the heat have you And if a real nigga he gon' eat your food 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, where your son even know his pops And the cyclical nature of doing 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 feeling your Daddy gonna lose his life soon And sadly if listening now it must mean it's true But there's a chance that it's not And album remains locked in a hard drive like valuable jewels And I can teach you this in like I'm teaching you to tie your own shoes I you and I hope to God I don't lose you For eyes only
For eyes For your only For eyes For eyes only For eyes do you understand
One day your daddy called me, told me he had a feeling What he'd been with lately, he wasn't telling I to pick his brains, still he wasn't revealing But I feel the sense of panic in his voice and it was chilling He said "Jermaine, I knew since we was children I never for nothing When was hard I never had discussions with 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 was in my blood, you know my life I your momma 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 wished my lived But my granny crib was in the I had to interject like, "Nigga you talking 'bout? Fuck is you getting at?" He said "Listen, I got no time to dive into But I've been having premonitions, call it visions from the other side I got a feeling I won't see tomorrow, 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 play it for my daughter she ready So I'm leaving you this record for your eyes only, don't you ever scratch it it This perspective is a real one, another Ville son I dedicate these words to you and all the other Affected by all the incarceration in this nation That sent your pops to when he needed education Sometimes I think this segregation would've us better Although 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 to Jonesborough with Little Zach and Cole World barely one years old, now 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 twelve years old Not becuase he used to come through in the Caddy on some Not 'cause he went from bagging up them to serving Os Now daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was hard Not because he lived a life of and sat behind some bars Not because he screamed the law, although that was true Your daddy was a real nigga he loved you" For your eyes