For your only (for eyes)
For your eyes only, for your only (for eyes)
For eyes only
Hey be dying on the daily It seems my faded for far too long, the consequences deadly Can't visualize myself as nothing but a Control the block, serving up rocks and stay Cause niggas is hard headed, they letting off of adrenaline, ignorant to what death can cause Ain't no coming back, family in black Plus it's hot now, the cops outside it's hard to 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 but I will bounce back Despite the charges, back to the 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 thing from heaven This is and I don't mean that hyperbolic I try to find employment if the swiper chargeless But these be making life the hardest Resisting the temptation to run up and a wallet Or run up on your yard, snatch daughter bike and pawn it That's why I write sonnet If the pressure get too 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 my life is on For eyes only
For your eyes do you For your do you understand me For your do you understand For your do you understand me For your do you understand For your eyes do you 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 even if I believe in God But because you alive 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 part of you Maybe you hate me, maybe you miss me, maybe you me Life goes in cycles, maybe you'll date a nigga just me I hope not, I'm of dope spots And fiends smoke rocks I've seen far too many niggas rot I'm writing this me and the devil had a dance I see death the corner, apologizing in advance know if I ever had a chance At a glance I'm a failure, to pushing paraphernalia But had dreams once, my eyes had a gleam once Innocence by the age of eight years My Pops shot up, drug Mama So Granny raised me in projects where was hanging Blood was staining the Older niggas I loved talked like they was above maintaining a time That money, picked up the family business By the age of thirteen, six later was handed sentence Round the same time you came in this Me and your mama thinking, what the fuck we naming this I told her Nina, the prettiest name that I think of For the thing 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 for me to ever 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 becomes the death of me, I hope you understand
For your do you understand For your do you understand me For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For your do you understand For your eyes do you me For your do you understand For your do you understand me
In ways I could've went out, too many to count Was it the trigger happy crackers the badges give clout Was it the young nigga, blasting frustrated cause the running out Niggas don't how to act in a drought See girl I realized, my definition of a real nigga was skewed My misshaped by new mixtapes That confirmed the shit I learned in the streets 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 he gon' eat your food I was a fool, spent all my time ducking school, ducking rules, hugging blocks that don't 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 know his And the cyclical nature of time continues My worst fear is one day that you come home from school and see your father face while hearing 'bout on news I got the strangest feeling your Daddy lose his life soon And sadly if you're listening now it must mean it's But maybe there's a chance that 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 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 called me, told me he had a feeling What been dealing with lately, he wasn't telling I tried to his brains, still he wasn't revealing But I could feel the sense of panic in his voice and it was He said "Jermaine, I knew since we was I never asked for nothing When times was hard I never had discussions with you begging you to me I dealt with the of my actions I know you tried to steer me away from shit But shit was in my blood, you know my life I know momma nigga, send my love In case I never get a to speak again I won't forget the weekends spent sleeping at crib the way I wished my family lived But my crib was in the 'jects I had to like, "Nigga what you talking 'bout? Fuck is you getting at?" He said "Listen, I got no time to dive into But I've been premonitions, just call it visions from the other side I got a feeling I won't see tomorrow, like the time I'm on is borrowed With that I'm proud to say I was a father Write my down and if I pass go play it for my daughter when she ready So I'm leaving you this record for eyes only, don't you ever scratch it disrespect it perspective is a real one, another lost Ville son I dedicate these 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 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 years later making sure the story's told Girl your daddy was a nigga, not 'cos 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 'cause he went 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 and sat behind some bars Not because he screamed the law, although that was true Your was a real nigga 'cos he loved you" For your only