For eyes only (for eyes)
For your eyes only, for eyes only (for eyes)
For your eyes
Hey Niggas be on the daily It seems my dreams faded for far too long, the consequences visualize myself as nothing but a criminal Control the block, serving up rocks and stay Cause young niggas is hard headed, they off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to what can cause Ain't no coming back, family dressed in it's hot now, the cops 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 Jays on her feet Like I ain't out in the field like I might be low for the 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 like the farthest thing heaven This is hell and I don't mean hyperbolic I try to employment even if the swiper chargeless But these felonies be making life the the temptation to run up and swipe a wallet Or run up on your yard, snatch daughter bike and pawn it That's why I write sonnet If the pressure get too much for me to and I break Play this tape for my and let her know my life is on it Let her my life is on it (For eyes) Let her know my 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 your eyes do you For your do you understand me For your 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 sure 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 know how of you feels Maybe you hate me, maybe you miss me, maybe you me Life goes in cycles, maybe you'll a nigga just like me I hope not, I'm tired of spots And fiends that smoke I've seen far too many hopes rot I'm writing this 'cause me and the devil had a I see death round the corner, in advance Don't know if I had a chance At a glance I'm a failure, to pushing paraphernalia But Daddy had dreams once, my had a gleam once disappeared by the age of eight years My Pops shot up, drug addicted So raised me in projects where thugs was hanging was staining the concrete Older niggas I loved talked they was above maintaining a time sheet That money, picked up the family 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 we naming this girl? I her Nina, the prettiest name that I could think of For the prettiest 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 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 cause karma catching up to me And if my past becomes the death of me, I you understand
For eyes 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 do you understand me For your eyes do you For your do you understand me
In several ways I could've went out, too many to Was it the happy crackers that the badges give clout 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 definition of a real nigga was My views by new mixtapes confirmed the shit I learned from in the streets was true That real niggas don't when they beef with you They just pull up on your street, let the have you And if a real nigga hungry he gon' eat food I was a fool, all my time ducking school, ducking cops Ducking rules, blocks that don't love you I pray you find a nigga with goals and point of Much broader the corner, if not it's gon' corner you Into a box, where your son 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 face while hearing 'bout tragedy on news I got the feeling your Daddy gonna lose his life soon And sadly if you're listening now it must mean true But maybe 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 like I'm teaching you to tie own shoes I love you and I hope to God I lose you For your eyes
For your For eyes only For your For eyes only For eyes do you understand
One day your daddy called me, told me he had a feeling What he'd been dealing with lately, he wasn't I tried to pick his brains, still he wasn't But I could feel the sense of in his voice and it was chilling He said "Jermaine, I knew since we was children I never asked for When times was hard I never had discussions with you begging you to me I dealt with the repercussions of my I know you tried to steer me away from that But that shit was in my blood, you my life I your momma nigga, send my love In case I get a chance to speak again I won't forget the weekends spent at your crib That's the way I wished my lived But my granny was in the 'jects I had to like, "Nigga what you talking 'bout? Fuck is you getting at?" He "Listen, I got no time to dive into descriptions But I've been having premonitions, just it visions from the other side I got a feeling I won't see tomorrow, like the time I'm living on is that said I'm proud 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 you this record for your eyes only, don't you ever scratch it disrespect it This perspective is a real one, another lost son I dedicate these words to you and all the children by all the mass incarceration in this nation That your pops to prison when he needed education Sometimes I this segregation would've done us better Although that means I never be brought 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 years old, now it's thirty 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 pussy twelve years old Not becuase he used to come through in the Caddy on 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 life of crime and sat behind bars Not because he screamed fuck the law, although was true Your daddy was a real 'cos he loved you" For eyes only