For your only (for eyes)
For your eyes only, for your eyes (for eyes)
For eyes only
Hey Niggas be on the daily It seems my dreams for far too long, the consequences deadly Can't visualize as nothing but a criminal Control the block, serving up and stay subliminal Cause young is hard headed, they letting off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to what can cause Ain't no coming back, family dressed in Plus it's hot now, the cops outside it's hard to flip a 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 like I might be low for the moment but I will back the charges, back to the wall I fight regardless, Screaming "fuck the law", my life is That's what you it Ain't got to be no to see this is like the farthest thing from heaven This is and I don't mean that hyperbolic I try to find employment even if the chargeless But felonies be making life the hardest Resisting the to run up and swipe a wallet Or run up on yard, snatch your daughter bike and pawn it That's why I write sonnet 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 eyes only
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 eyes do you For eyes do you understand me
You're probably grown now so 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 how part of you feels Maybe you me, maybe you miss me, maybe you spite me Life in cycles, maybe you'll date a nigga just like me I hope not, I'm tired of dope And fiends smoke rocks I've seen far too niggas hopes 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, addicted to paraphernalia But had dreams once, my eyes had a gleam once disappeared by the age of eight years My shot up, drug related addicted So Granny raised me in projects where thugs was Blood was the concrete Older niggas I loved like they was above maintaining a time sheet That slow money, picked up the family By the age of thirteen, six years was handed sentence Round the same time you came in this Me and your mama thinking, what the fuck we naming girl? I her Nina, the prettiest name 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, this 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 cause karma keeps catching up to me And if my past becomes the death of me, I hope you
For your eyes do you For your eyes do you 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 eyes do you understand me
In several ways I went out, too many to count Was it the trigger crackers that the badges give clout Was it the nigga, blasting frustrated cause the cash running out don't know how to act in a drought See baby girl I realized, my definition of a nigga was skewed My views by new mixtapes That confirmed the shit I from in the streets was true That real niggas speak when they beef with you They just pull up on your street, let the heat you And if a real hungry he gon' eat your food I was a fool, spent all my time school, ducking cops Ducking rules, hugging blocks don't love you I pray you find a nigga with goals and point of Much broader than the corner, if not it's gon' you Into a box, where your son don't know his pops And the cyclical nature of doing continues My worst fear is one day that you come home from and see your father face while hearing 'bout tragedy on news I got the strangest feeling your Daddy lose his life soon And sadly if you're listening now it must mean true But maybe there's a chance that not And this album remains locked in a hard like valuable jewels And I can teach you this in person I'm teaching you to tie your own shoes I you and I hope to God I don't lose you For your eyes
For eyes For eyes only For eyes For your eyes For eyes do you understand
One day your called me, told me he had a funny feeling What he'd been dealing lately, he wasn't telling I tried to his brains, still he wasn't revealing But I could 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 was hard I never had discussions with you begging you to help me I dealt the repercussions of my actions I know you tried to me away from that shit But shit was in my blood, you know my life I know your nigga, send my love In case I never get a chance to again I won't forget the weekends spent sleeping at your That's the way I wished my lived But my granny crib was in the I had to interject like, "Nigga what you talking 'bout? Fuck is you at?" He "Listen, I got no time to dive into descriptions But I've been having premonitions, just call it visions from the side I got a feeling I see tomorrow, like the time I'm living on is borrowed With that said I'm to say I was a father Write my story down and if I pass go play it for my daughter when she So I'm leaving you this record for your eyes only, don't you ever it disrespect it This perspective is a real one, another lost son I dedicate these words to you and all the other Affected by all the mass incarceration in this That sent your pops to prison when he education Sometimes I think this segregation would've done us Although that means I would never be brought into this world 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 thirty years later making sure the story's Girl your daddy was a real nigga, not he was cold Not because he was the first to get pussy twelve years old Not he used to come through in the Caddy on some vogues Not 'cause he went from bagging up them to serving Os Now your was a real nigga, not 'cos he was hard Not because he lived a of crime and sat behind some bars Not because he screamed fuck the law, although was true Your daddy was a real nigga 'cos he you" For your eyes