For your eyes (for eyes)
For your eyes only, for eyes only (for eyes)
For your only
Hey Niggas be on the daily It my dreams faded for far too long, the consequences deadly Can't visualize myself as but a criminal Control the block, up rocks and stay subliminal young niggas is hard headed, they letting off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to what death can Ain't no coming back, family in black Plus it's hot now, the cops it's hard 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 out in the field like that I might be low for the moment but I will back Despite the charges, back to the wall I regardless, "fuck the law", my life is lawless That's you call it Ain't got to be no psychic to see is like the farthest thing from heaven This is hell and I don't mean hyperbolic I try to find employment if the swiper chargeless 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 That's why I write this 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 do you understand For your eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For eyes do you understand me For your eyes do you For your do you understand me For your do you understand For your eyes do you me
You're 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 even if I believe in God But you still alive He got me praying the spiritual is real So I can be a part of you still, my was killed too So I know how part of you Maybe you hate me, you miss me, maybe you spite me Life goes in cycles, maybe you'll date a just like me I hope not, I'm of dope spots And fiends smoke rocks seen far too many niggas hopes rot I'm this 'cause me and the devil had a dance I see death round the corner, in advance Don't know if I ever had a At a glance I'm a failure, addicted to pushing But had dreams once, my eyes had a gleam once Innocence disappeared by the age of years My Pops shot up, drug addicted So Granny me in projects where thugs was hanging Blood was staining the Older niggas I loved talked like was above maintaining a time sheet slow money, picked up the family business By the age of thirteen, six years later was handed Round the same you came in this world Me and your mama thinking, the fuck we naming this girl? I told her Nina, the name that I could think of For the prettiest thing my eyes had ever I was nineteen, it took me two felonies to see the trap, this ass system set for me And now it's too late for me to ever be the one that set examples that were set for me I'm living fast, but not fast cause karma keeps catching up to me And if my becomes the death of me, I hope you understand
For your eyes do you For your do you understand me For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For eyes do you understand For eyes do you understand me
In several ways I could've went out, too to count Was it the trigger happy crackers that the badges give Was it the young nigga, blasting cause the cash running out Niggas know how to act in a drought See baby girl I realized, my definition of a real was skewed My views by new mixtapes That confirmed the shit I learned in the streets was true real niggas don't speak when they beef with you They just up on your street, let the heat have you And if a real nigga hungry he gon' eat food I was a fool, all my time ducking school, ducking cops Ducking rules, hugging blocks that love you I pray you find a nigga with goals and of views Much broader than the corner, if not gon' corner you Into a box, where your son don't even know his And the cyclical nature of doing time 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 lose his soon And sadly if you're listening now it mean it's true But maybe there's a that it's not And this album remains locked in a hard drive like valuable And I can teach you in person 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 eyes only For your For your only For your do you understand
One day your daddy called me, told me he had a feeling What he'd been dealing with lately, he wasn't I tried to pick his brains, still he revealing But I could the sense of panic in his voice and it was chilling He "Jermaine, I knew since we was children I never asked for nothing When times was I never had discussions with you begging you to help me I with the repercussions of my actions I know you to steer me away from that shit But shit was in my blood, you know my life I your momma nigga, send my love In case I never get a chance to speak I won't forget the weekends spent sleeping at crib That's the way I wished my family But my granny crib was in the I had to interject like, "Nigga what you '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 visions from the other I got a feeling I see tomorrow, like the time I'm living on is borrowed With that I'm proud to say I was a father my story down and if I pass go play it for my daughter when 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 lost son I dedicate words to you and all the other children Affected by all the mass incarceration in this That sent your pops to when he needed education Sometimes I think this 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 World barely 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 to get some pussy twelve years old Not becuase he used to come through in the on some vogues Not 'cause he from bagging up them grams to serving Os Now daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was hard Not because he lived a life of crime and sat some bars Not because he screamed fuck the law, although was true Your daddy was a real 'cos he loved you" For your eyes