For eyes only (for eyes)
For your eyes only, for your only (for eyes)
For eyes only
Hey be dying on the daily It seems my dreams faded for far too long, the deadly Can't visualize as nothing but a criminal Control the block, serving up and stay subliminal Cause niggas is hard headed, they letting off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to what can cause Ain't no coming back, dressed in black Plus hot now, the cops outside it's hard to flip a pack And my daughter 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 be low for the moment but I will bounce back the charges, back to the wall I fight regardless, Screaming "fuck the law", my is lawless That's what you it Ain't got to be no psychic to see this is the farthest thing from heaven is hell and I don't mean that hyperbolic I try to find employment if the swiper chargeless But these felonies be life the hardest Resisting the temptation to run up and swipe a Or run up on your yard, snatch your daughter bike and it That's why I this sonnet If the pressure get too for me to take and I break Play this 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 your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me For eyes 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 with you In the physical, not even if I believe in God But you still alive He got me that the spiritual is real So I can be a of you still, my pops was killed too So I how part of you feels Maybe you hate me, maybe you me, maybe you spite me Life goes in cycles, maybe you'll date a nigga just me I hope not, I'm tired of dope And that smoke rocks I've seen far too many niggas rot I'm this 'cause 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, addicted to pushing But Daddy had once, my eyes had a gleam once disappeared by the age of eight years My Pops shot up, related Mama So Granny raised me in projects where thugs was Blood was the concrete Older niggas I talked like they was above maintaining a time sheet 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 this girl? I told her Nina, the prettiest name that I think of For the prettiest thing my eyes had ever I was nineteen, it took me two to see the trap, this crooked ass system set for me And now it's too late for me to ever be the one that set that were never set for me I'm fast, but not fast enough cause karma keeps catching up to me And if my becomes the death of me, I hope you understand
For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me For your do you understand For your eyes do you me For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me
In several I could've went out, too many to count Was it the trigger happy that the badges give clout Was it the young nigga, blasting cause the cash running out Niggas don't know how to act in a See baby girl I realized, my of a real nigga was skewed My views misshaped by new That confirmed the shit I from 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 hungry he gon' eat your food I was a fool, spent all my time ducking school, cops Ducking rules, blocks that don't love you I you find a nigga with goals and point of views Much broader than the corner, if not gon' corner you Into a box, your son don't even know his pops And the cyclical nature of time continues My worst fear is one day that you come home from school and see your father while hearing 'bout tragedy on news I got the strangest feeling your gonna lose his life soon And sadly if you're listening now it must it's true But maybe there's a chance that not And this album remains locked in a hard drive like jewels And I can teach you this in person like I'm teaching you to tie your own I love you and I hope to God I lose you For your eyes
For your For your eyes For eyes For your only For eyes do you understand
One day your daddy called me, me he had a funny feeling What he'd been dealing lately, he wasn't telling I to pick his brains, still he wasn't revealing But I could feel the sense of panic in his 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 dealt with the repercussions of my I know you tried to steer me away from shit But that was in my blood, you know my life I know momma nigga, send my love In case I never get a chance to speak I won't forget the weekends spent sleeping at crib the way I wished my family lived But my granny crib was in the I had to interject like, "Nigga what you talking 'bout? is you getting at?" He "Listen, I got no time to dive into descriptions But I've been having premonitions, call it visions from the other side I got a feeling I won't see tomorrow, like the time I'm 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 when she ready So I'm you this record for your eyes only, don't you ever scratch it disrespect it This is a real one, another lost Ville son I these words to you and all the other children Affected by all the incarceration in this nation That sent your pops to prison when he education Sometimes I think this segregation would've us better Although that means I would never be 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 Cole World barely one old, now it's thirty years later making sure the story's told Girl daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was cold Not because he was the first to get pussy twelve years old Not becuase he used to through in the Caddy on some vogues Not 'cause he 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, that was true Your daddy was a real nigga 'cos he you" For your eyes