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, serving up and stay subliminal Cause young niggas is hard headed, they off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to what death can Ain't no back, family dressed in black Plus it's hot now, the cops outside hard 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 field 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 what you it Ain't got to be no psychic to see this is like the thing from heaven This is and I don't mean that hyperbolic I try to employment even if the swiper chargeless But these felonies be life the hardest the temptation to run up and swipe a wallet Or run up on your yard, your daughter bike and pawn it That's why I write sonnet If the get too much 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 eyes only
For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For your do you understand For your eyes do you me For your do you understand For eyes do you understand me For eyes do you understand For eyes do you understand me
You're probably now so this song'll hit you If you're hearing this it means I'm no longer with you In the physical, not sure if I believe in God But because you alive He got me praying that the is real So I can be a part of you still, my pops was too So I know how part of you you hate me, maybe you miss me, maybe you spite me Life goes in cycles, maybe you'll date a nigga like me I hope not, I'm of dope spots And fiends that 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 Don't if I ever had a chance At a glance I'm a failure, addicted to pushing But Daddy had dreams once, my had a gleam once Innocence by the age of eight years My Pops shot up, drug Mama So Granny raised me in where thugs was hanging Blood was staining the Older niggas I talked like they 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 thinking, what the fuck we naming this 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, 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 cause karma keeps catching up to me And if my past 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 your do you understand me For your do you understand For eyes do you understand me For your eyes do you For your do you understand me
In several ways I could've went out, too to count Was it the happy crackers that the badges give clout Was it the young nigga, blasting frustrated the cash running out Niggas don't how to act in a drought See baby girl I realized, my definition of a real nigga was My misshaped by new mixtapes That confirmed the shit I learned from in the was true That real niggas speak when they beef with you just pull up on your street, let the heat have you And if a real nigga hungry he gon' eat food I was a fool, spent all my time ducking school, ducking Ducking rules, blocks that 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, where your son don't even his pops And the cyclical of doing time 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 you're now it must mean it's true But maybe there's a chance it's not And this album remains locked in a drive like valuable jewels And I can teach you this in like I'm teaching you to tie your own shoes I love you and I hope to God I don't you For your eyes
For your For your only For your For your eyes For your eyes do you
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, he wasn't revealing But I could the sense of panic in his voice and it was chilling He said "Jermaine, I since we was children I never asked for nothing When times was I never had discussions with you begging you to help me I dealt the repercussions of my actions I know you tried to steer me from that shit But that shit was in my blood, you know my I know your momma nigga, my love In I never get a chance to speak again I won't forget the weekends sleeping at your crib the way I wished my family lived But my granny crib was in the I had to interject like, "Nigga what you talking Fuck is you getting at?" He said "Listen, I got no time to dive descriptions But I've been having premonitions, just 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 this record for your eyes only, don't you ever it disrespect it This perspective is a real one, lost Ville son I dedicate words to you and all the other children Affected by all the mass incarceration in this That your pops to prison when he needed education Sometimes I think segregation would've done us better Although that means I would never be brought into this world 'cos my daddy was so when he found him a white girl to take back to Jonesborough with Little Zach and Cole World barely one 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 first to get some twelve years old Not becuase he used to come through in the Caddy on vogues Not 'cause he went from bagging up them grams to Os Now your daddy was a real nigga, not he was hard Not because he lived a life of crime and sat some bars Not he screamed fuck the law, although that was true Your daddy was a real nigga he loved you" For eyes only