For your eyes (for eyes)
For your only, for your eyes only (for eyes)
For your only
Hey be dying on the daily It seems my dreams for far too long, the consequences deadly Can't visualize as nothing but a criminal the block, serving up rocks and stay subliminal Cause young niggas is 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 hard to flip a And my gotta eat, her mama be stressing me like 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, to the wall I fight regardless, "fuck the law", my life is lawless That's you call it Ain't got to be no to see this is like the farthest thing from heaven This is hell and I mean that hyperbolic I try to find even if the swiper chargeless But these felonies be making life the Resisting the temptation to run up and 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 this tape for my daughter and let her know my is on it Let her know my is on it (For eyes) Let her know my is on For your 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 your eyes do you me For your eyes do you For your do you understand me
You're grown now so this song'll hit you If you're hearing it means unfortunately I'm no longer with you In the physical, not sure if I believe in God But because you still He got me that the spiritual is real So I can be a part of you still, my pops was too So I know how of you feels Maybe you hate me, maybe you miss me, you spite me Life goes in cycles, maybe you'll a nigga just like me I hope not, I'm tired of spots And fiends that smoke I've seen far too niggas hopes rot I'm writing 'cause me and the devil had a dance I see death the corner, apologizing in advance Don't if I ever had a chance At a glance I'm a failure, addicted to paraphernalia But Daddy had once, my eyes had a gleam once Innocence disappeared by the age of years My Pops shot up, related Mama So Granny raised me in projects where thugs was Blood was the concrete Older niggas I loved talked like they was above maintaining a time That slow money, picked up the business By the age of thirteen, six later was handed sentence Round the time you came in this world Me and your mama thinking, what the fuck we naming girl? I told her Nina, the name that I could think of For the prettiest my eyes 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 ever be the one set examples that were never set for me I'm living fast, but not fast enough cause karma keeps up to me And if my past becomes the death of me, I you understand
For your do you understand For your eyes do you 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
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 frustrated cause the cash out Niggas know how to act in a drought See baby I realized, my definition of a real nigga was skewed My views misshaped by new That confirmed the I learned from in the streets was true That real don't speak when they beef with you They just pull up on your street, let the heat you And if a real nigga hungry he eat your food I was a fool, spent all my ducking school, ducking cops Ducking rules, hugging blocks that love you I pray you a nigga with goals and point 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 nature of doing continues 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 must it's true But there's a chance that it's not And this album remains in a hard drive like valuable jewels And I can teach you this in person like I'm teaching you to tie your own I love you and I to God I don't lose you For your eyes
For eyes For eyes only For eyes For your eyes For your eyes do you
One day your daddy me, told me he had a funny feeling he'd been dealing with lately, he wasn't telling I tried to 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 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 tried to steer me away from shit But that shit was in my blood, you my life I your momma nigga, send my love In case I never get a chance to speak I won't forget the spent sleeping at your crib That's the way I my family lived But my granny was in the 'jects I had to interject like, "Nigga what you talking Fuck is you getting at?" He said "Listen, I got no time to into descriptions But I've been having premonitions, just it visions from the other side I got a feeling I won't see tomorrow, like the 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 it disrespect it This is a real one, another lost Ville son I dedicate these words to you and all the children Affected by all the mass incarceration in this That sent your pops to prison 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 when he found him a white girl to take back to Jonesborough Little Zach and Cole World barely one years old, now it's thirty years later making the story's told Girl daddy 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 a life of crime and sat behind some bars Not because he screamed fuck the law, although was true Your daddy was a real nigga he loved you" For your eyes