For your eyes (for eyes)
For your eyes only, for your eyes (for eyes)
For your only
Hey Niggas be on the daily It my dreams faded for far too long, the consequences deadly Can't myself as nothing but a criminal Control the block, serving up rocks and subliminal Cause niggas is hard headed, they letting off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to what death can Ain't no 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 like I ain't the one who put them Jays on her Like I ain't out in the like that I might be low for the moment but I bounce back 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 thing from heaven This is hell and I mean that hyperbolic I try to find even if the swiper chargeless But these felonies be making the hardest Resisting the to run up and swipe a wallet Or run up on your yard, snatch your daughter and pawn it That's why I write 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 eyes
For your do you understand For your do you understand me For your eyes do you For your eyes do you 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 grown now so song'll hit you If hearing this it means unfortunately I'm no longer with you In the physical, not even if I believe in God But because you still He got me praying the spiritual is real So I can be a part of you still, my 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 fiends that rocks seen far too many niggas hopes rot I'm this 'cause me and the devil had a dance I see round 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 disappeared by the age of eight My Pops shot up, drug addicted So Granny me in projects where thugs was hanging Blood was the concrete Older niggas I loved talked like they was maintaining a time sheet That slow money, up the family business By the age of thirteen, six years was handed sentence Round the time you came in this world Me and your mama thinking, the fuck we naming this girl? I told her Nina, the name that I could think of For the thing my eyes had ever seen I was nineteen, it me two felonies to see the trap, this crooked ass system set for me And now it's too late for me to 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 you understand
For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For your do you understand For your do you understand me For your do you understand For eyes do you understand me For your do you understand For your eyes do you me
In several ways I could've out, too many to count Was it the happy crackers that the badges give clout Was it the young nigga, blasting frustrated cause the cash out Niggas don't how to act in a drought See baby I realized, my definition 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 just pull up on street, let the heat have you And if a real nigga hungry he gon' eat your I was a fool, all my time ducking school, ducking cops 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 doing continues My worst fear is one day that you come from school 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 listening now it must mean it's true But there's a chance that it's not And this album remains in a hard drive like valuable jewels And I can teach you this in person I'm teaching you to tie your own shoes I love you and I to God I don't lose you For your only
For eyes For your only For eyes For eyes only For eyes do you understand
One day your daddy me, told me he had a funny feeling What he'd been dealing with lately, he telling I tried to 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 I never asked for nothing When times was hard I had discussions with you begging you to help me I dealt the repercussions of my actions I know you tried to steer me away from shit But that shit was in my blood, you know my I your momma nigga, send my love In case I get a chance to speak again I won't forget the spent sleeping at your crib the way I wished my family lived But my granny was in the 'jects I had to interject like, "Nigga what you talking 'bout? Fuck is you at?" He said "Listen, I got no time to dive 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 I'm living on is borrowed With said I'm proud to say I was a father Write my story and if I pass go play it for my daughter when she ready So I'm leaving you this record for your eyes only, don't you scratch it disrespect it This is a real one, another lost Ville son I dedicate these to you and all the other children Affected by all the incarceration in this nation That sent your pops to when he needed education I think this segregation would've done 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 World barely one years old, now it's thirty years later making sure the story's told your daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was cold Not because he was the to get some pussy twelve years old Not becuase he used to come in the Caddy on some vogues Not 'cause he went bagging up them grams to serving Os Now your daddy was a real nigga, not he was hard Not because he lived a life of crime and sat behind some Not because he screamed fuck the law, although was true Your daddy was a real 'cos he loved you" For eyes only