For your eyes (for eyes)
For eyes only, for your eyes only (for eyes)
For eyes only
Hey Niggas be dying on the It seems my dreams faded for far too long, the consequences Can't visualize myself as nothing but a Control the block, serving up rocks and subliminal Cause young is hard headed, they letting off of adrenaline, ignorant to what death can cause Ain't no coming back, family dressed in Plus it's hot now, the cops outside hard to flip a pack And my daughter gotta eat, her mama be stressing me like I ain't the one who put Jays on her feet I ain't out in the field like that I might be low for the but I will bounce back Despite the charges, 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 thing heaven This is hell and I don't mean that I try to find employment even if the swiper But felonies be making life the hardest Resisting the to run up and swipe a wallet Or run up on your yard, snatch daughter bike and pawn it why I write this sonnet If the pressure get too 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 do you understand For eyes do you understand me For eyes do you understand For eyes do you understand me For your do you understand For your do you understand me For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me
probably grown now so this song'll hit you If you're 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 spiritual is So I can be a of you still, my pops was killed too So I how part of you feels Maybe you me, maybe you miss me, maybe you spite me Life goes in cycles, maybe you'll date a nigga just me I hope not, I'm tired of dope 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 glance I'm a failure, 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 where thugs was hanging Blood was staining the Older niggas I loved talked like was above maintaining a time sheet That money, picked up the family business By the age of thirteen, six years later was sentence Round the same time you came in this Me and your mama thinking, what the we naming this girl? I told her Nina, the prettiest name I could think of For the prettiest thing my eyes had ever I was nineteen, it me two felonies to see the trap, this crooked ass system set for me And now it's too late for me to be the one that set examples that were never set for me I'm living fast, but not fast enough cause karma catching up to me And if my past becomes the death of me, I hope you
For your do you understand For eyes do you understand me For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me
In several ways I could've went out, too to count Was it the trigger crackers that the badges give clout Was it the young nigga, blasting frustrated 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 the shit I learned from in the streets was true That real niggas don't when they beef with you They just up on your street, let the heat have you And if a nigga hungry he gon' eat your food I was a fool, spent all my time ducking school, cops Ducking rules, hugging blocks don't love you I pray you find a nigga with goals and of views Much broader the corner, if not it's gon' corner you Into a box, your son don't even know his pops And the cyclical nature of doing time My fear 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 lose his life soon And sadly if you're 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 in person like I'm teaching you to tie your own shoes I love you and I hope to God I don't you For your only
For your For your only For eyes For eyes only For your do you understand
One day your daddy called me, me he had a funny feeling he'd been dealing with lately, he wasn't telling I tried to pick his brains, still he wasn't But I could feel the sense of panic in his voice and it was He said "Jermaine, I knew since we was children I asked for nothing When times was hard I never had discussions with you you to help me I dealt the repercussions of my actions I know you tried to steer me away from that But shit was in my blood, you know 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 at your crib That's the way I wished my family But my granny crib was in the I had to like, "Nigga what you talking 'bout? Fuck is you getting at?" He said "Listen, I got no time to dive descriptions But I've been having premonitions, just call it visions from the side I got a I won't see tomorrow, like the time I'm living on is borrowed With that said I'm 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 you this record for your eyes only, don't you ever scratch it disrespect it This perspective is a real one, another lost son I dedicate these words to you and all the children Affected by all the mass incarceration in nation That sent pops to prison when he needed education Sometimes I this segregation would've done us better Although that means I would never be brought into this world 'cos my daddy was so thrilled 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 Girl your was a real nigga, not 'cos 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 bagging up them grams to serving Os Now your was a real nigga, not 'cos he was hard Not because he lived a life of crime and sat behind bars Not because he screamed the law, although that was true Your daddy was a real nigga he loved you" For your only