For eyes only (for eyes)
For your eyes only, for your only (for eyes)
For your eyes
Hey Niggas be dying on the It my dreams faded for far too long, the consequences deadly Can't visualize myself as 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 no coming back, family dressed in black Plus it's hot now, the outside it's hard to flip 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 like that I be low for the moment but I will bounce back Despite the charges, back to the wall I regardless, Screaming "fuck the law", my is lawless That's what you it Ain't got to be no psychic to see this is like the farthest thing heaven This is hell and I don't that hyperbolic I try to find employment even if the swiper But these felonies be life the hardest Resisting the temptation to run up and 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 this 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 your only
For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me
You're probably grown now so this hit you If you're hearing this it means unfortunately I'm no with you In the physical, not sure 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 me, maybe you miss me, maybe you spite me Life goes in cycles, maybe you'll date a nigga like me I hope not, I'm of dope spots 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 round the corner, in advance Don't know if I had a chance At a glance I'm a failure, addicted to pushing But Daddy had dreams once, my eyes had a gleam Innocence disappeared by the age of years My Pops up, drug related addicted So Granny me in projects where thugs was hanging Blood was the concrete Older niggas I loved like they was above maintaining a time sheet That money, picked up the family business By the age of thirteen, six later was handed sentence the same time you came in this world Me and your thinking, what the fuck we naming this girl? I told her Nina, the prettiest name that I think of For the prettiest thing my eyes had seen I was nineteen, it took me two to see the trap, this crooked ass system set for me And now too late for me to ever be the one that set examples that were never set for me I'm living fast, but not fast enough karma keeps catching up to me And if my past becomes the death of me, I hope you
For eyes 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 eyes do you understand me For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me
In several ways I could've went out, too to count Was it the trigger happy crackers that the badges give Was it the young nigga, frustrated cause the cash running out don't know how to act in a drought See baby girl I realized, my definition of a real was skewed My views misshaped by new That confirmed the shit I learned from in the streets was That real don't speak when they beef with you They just up on your street, let the heat have you And if a real nigga hungry he eat your food I was a fool, spent all my ducking school, ducking cops rules, hugging blocks that don't love you I pray you find a nigga with goals and of views Much than 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 time 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 your Daddy gonna lose his life soon And if you're listening now it must mean it's true But maybe a chance that it's not And album remains locked in a hard drive like valuable jewels And I can teach you this in person like I'm you to tie your own shoes I love you and I hope to God I don't you For your only
For your For your eyes For your For your only 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 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 asked for nothing When times was hard I never had discussions with you you to help me I with the repercussions of my actions I know you tried to steer me away 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 speak I won't forget the spent sleeping at your crib That's the way I 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 said "Listen, I got no to dive into descriptions But been having premonitions, just call it visions from the other side I got a I won't see tomorrow, like the time I'm living 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 she ready So I'm leaving you this record for your eyes only, you ever scratch it disrespect it This is a real one, another lost Ville son I dedicate these words to you and all the children by all the mass incarceration in this nation That sent your pops to prison he needed education Sometimes I think this segregation would've done us Although that means I would never be brought into world 'cos my daddy was so thrilled when he found him a white girl to take back to Jonesborough with Zach and Cole World barely one years old, now it's thirty 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 pussy twelve old Not becuase he used to come through in the Caddy on some Not 'cause he went from bagging up them grams to Os Now your daddy was a real nigga, not he was hard Not because he lived a life of crime and sat some bars Not because he screamed fuck the law, although that was Your daddy was a real 'cos he loved you" For your eyes