For your only (for eyes)
For your eyes only, for eyes only (for eyes)
For your eyes
Hey Niggas be dying on the It seems my faded for far too long, the consequences deadly Can't visualize myself as but a criminal Control the block, serving up rocks and stay Cause young is hard headed, they letting off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to what can cause Ain't no coming back, family dressed in Plus it's hot now, the cops outside it's to flip a pack And my daughter gotta eat, her mama be stressing me 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 but I will bounce back Despite the charges, back to the wall I regardless, "fuck the law", my life is lawless That's what you it got to be no psychic to see this is like the farthest thing from heaven This is and I don't mean that hyperbolic I try to find even if the swiper chargeless But these felonies be making the hardest the temptation to run up and swipe a wallet Or run up on your yard, snatch your bike and pawn it why I write this sonnet If the pressure get too much for me to take and I this 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 eyes only
For your do you understand 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 eyes do you understand For your do you understand me
You're probably grown now so song'll hit you If you're hearing this it unfortunately I'm no longer with you In the physical, not even if I believe in God But because you still He got me praying the spiritual is real So I can be a part of you still, my pops was too So I know how of you feels you hate me, maybe you miss me, maybe you spite me Life goes in cycles, you'll date a nigga just like me I hope not, I'm of dope spots And that smoke rocks I've seen far too many niggas rot I'm writing this me and the devil had a dance I see death round the corner, in advance know if I ever had a chance At a I'm a failure, addicted to pushing paraphernalia But Daddy had dreams once, my had a gleam once disappeared by the age of eight years My Pops shot up, drug Mama So Granny me in projects where thugs was hanging was staining the concrete Older niggas I loved talked like they was maintaining a time sheet That money, picked up the family business By the age of thirteen, six years was handed sentence Round the same time you came in world Me and mama thinking, what the fuck we naming this girl? I told her Nina, the prettiest name that I think of For the thing my eyes had ever seen 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 keeps catching up to me And if my past becomes the of me, I hope you understand
For your eyes do you For your do you understand me For your do you understand 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
In several ways I could've went out, too many to Was it the happy crackers that the badges give clout Was it the young nigga, frustrated cause the cash running out don't know how to act in a drought See baby I realized, my definition of a real nigga was skewed My misshaped by new mixtapes That confirmed the I learned from in the streets was true That real niggas don't speak when they with you They just pull up on your street, let the heat you And if a real nigga he gon' eat your food I was a fool, spent all my time school, ducking cops Ducking rules, blocks that don't love you I pray you find a nigga with goals and of views Much broader than the corner, if not it's corner you Into a box, where your son don't even his pops And the cyclical nature of doing time My worst fear is one day that you come home from school and see your father face while 'bout tragedy on news I got the strangest feeling Daddy gonna lose his life soon And sadly if listening now it must mean it's true But maybe there's a chance that not And this album remains 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 your only
For your For your eyes 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 with lately, he telling I tried to pick his brains, still he wasn't 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 times was hard I never had discussions with you you to help me I dealt with the repercussions of my I you tried to steer me away from that shit But shit was in my blood, you know my life I know momma nigga, send my love In case I never get a chance to again I won't forget the spent sleeping at your crib That's the way I wished my family But my crib was in the 'jects I had to interject like, "Nigga what you talking 'bout? is you getting at?" He said "Listen, I got no time to dive into But I've been having premonitions, just call it visions from the side I got a feeling I won't see tomorrow, like the I'm living on is borrowed With that said I'm proud to say I was a Write my story down and if I pass go it for my daughter when she ready So I'm leaving you this record for your eyes only, you ever scratch it disrespect it This perspective is a one, another lost Ville son I dedicate these words to you and all the children Affected by all the mass in this nation That sent your to prison when he needed education I think this 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 World barely one years old, now it's thirty years later making the story's told Girl your daddy was a real nigga, not he was cold Not because he was the first to get some twelve years old Not he used to come through in the Caddy on some vogues Not he went from bagging up them grams to serving Os Now your daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was Not because he lived a life of and sat behind some bars Not because he screamed fuck the law, although was true daddy was a real nigga 'cos he loved you" For your only