For eyes only (for eyes)
For your eyes only, for your eyes (for eyes)
For eyes only
Hey Niggas be dying on the It seems my dreams faded for far too long, the consequences Can't visualize myself as nothing but a Control the block, up rocks and stay subliminal Cause young niggas is 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 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 like I might be low for the moment but I will bounce the charges, back to the wall I fight regardless, Screaming "fuck the law", my life is That's you call it Ain't got to be no psychic to see this is like the farthest thing from This is hell and I don't mean that I try to find employment even if the chargeless But these felonies be making the hardest the temptation to run up and swipe a wallet Or run up on your yard, snatch your daughter bike and it That's why I this sonnet If the pressure get too much for me to take and I Play this tape for my 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 your eyes
For your do you understand For your eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me
You're probably grown now so this hit you If you're hearing this it means I'm no longer with you In the physical, not even sure if I in God But you still alive He got me praying that the spiritual is So I can be a part of you still, my was killed too So I know how part of you Maybe you hate me, maybe you me, maybe you spite me goes in cycles, maybe you'll date a nigga just like me I hope not, I'm tired of spots And that smoke rocks I've seen far too many niggas rot I'm writing this 'cause me and the had a dance I see death round the corner, apologizing in Don't know if I ever had a At a I'm a failure, addicted to pushing paraphernalia But Daddy had dreams once, my had a gleam once Innocence disappeared by the age of eight My Pops shot up, drug addicted So raised me in projects where thugs was hanging Blood was the concrete Older niggas I loved talked like they was above maintaining a sheet That slow money, up the family business 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 this I told her Nina, the name that I could think of For the prettiest thing my eyes had seen I was nineteen, it took me two felonies to see the trap, this crooked ass 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 fast, but not fast enough 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 do you understand me For your do you understand For eyes do you understand me For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For your do you understand For eyes do you understand me
In several ways I could've out, too many to count Was it the trigger happy crackers that the badges give Was it the young nigga, blasting cause the cash running out Niggas know how to act in a drought See baby girl I realized, my of a real nigga was skewed My views misshaped by new That confirmed the shit I learned in the streets was true real niggas don't speak when they beef with you They pull up on your street, let the heat have you And if a nigga hungry he gon' eat your food I was a fool, all my time ducking school, ducking cops Ducking rules, hugging blocks don't love you I pray you find a nigga with and point of views broader than the corner, if not it's gon' corner you Into a box, where your son don't even know his And the cyclical of doing time continues My worst fear is one day that you come home from school and see your father face while '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 maybe there's a that it's not And this album remains locked in a hard drive like valuable And I can you this in person 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 your For eyes only For your For eyes only For your eyes do you
One day your daddy called me, told me he had a feeling What he'd been dealing with lately, he telling I tried to pick his brains, still he wasn't But I could feel the sense of panic in his and it was chilling He said "Jermaine, I knew since we was children I never for nothing When times was hard I never had with you begging you to help me I dealt with the of my actions I know you tried to steer me away that shit But shit was in my blood, you know my life I your momma nigga, send my love In case I never get a chance to speak I won't forget the weekends spent sleeping at your That's the way I wished my family But my granny was in the 'jects I had to interject like, "Nigga you talking 'bout? Fuck is you getting at?" He said "Listen, I got no to dive into descriptions But been having 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 said I'm proud to say I was a 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 scratch it it This perspective is a real one, another lost son I dedicate words to you and all the other children Affected by all the incarceration in this nation That sent your to prison when he needed education Sometimes I think this segregation would've 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 to take back to Jonesborough with Little Zach and World barely one years old, now it's thirty years later making sure the story's told Girl your daddy was a real nigga, not he was cold Not because he was the first to get some twelve years old Not becuase he used to come in the Caddy on some vogues Not he went from bagging up them grams to serving Os Now daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was hard Not because he lived a of crime and sat behind some bars Not he screamed fuck the law, although that was true Your daddy was a nigga 'cos he loved you" For your eyes