For your only (for eyes)
For your only, for your eyes only (for eyes)
For eyes only
Hey Niggas be dying on the It seems my dreams for far too long, the consequences deadly Can't myself as nothing but a criminal Control the block, serving up rocks and subliminal Cause young niggas is headed, they letting off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to what death can 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 me like I ain't the one who put them Jays on her feet Like I out in the field like that 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 is lawless That's you call it Ain't got to be no psychic to see this is like the farthest from heaven This is hell and I don't mean that I try to find even if the swiper chargeless But these felonies be making life the Resisting the temptation to run up and swipe a Or run up on yard, snatch your daughter bike and pawn it That's why I this sonnet If the get too much for me to take and I break Play this 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 eyes do you For your 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 For your do you understand For your do you understand me
You're probably now so this song'll hit you If you're this it means unfortunately I'm no longer with you In the physical, not even sure if I in God But because you still He got me praying that the is real So I can be a part of you still, my pops was too So I know how part of you Maybe you hate me, maybe you me, maybe you spite me Life goes in cycles, maybe you'll a nigga just like me I not, I'm tired of dope spots And fiends smoke rocks I've seen far too many niggas rot I'm writing this me and the devil had a dance I see death round the corner, apologizing in Don't know if I ever had a At a glance I'm a failure, addicted to pushing But Daddy had dreams once, my eyes had a once disappeared by the age of eight years My Pops shot up, related addicted So Granny raised me in projects thugs was hanging Blood was staining the Older niggas I loved talked like 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 same time you came in this Me and mama thinking, what the fuck we naming this girl? I told her Nina, the prettiest name 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 crooked ass set for me And now it's too late for me to ever be the one that set examples that were set for me I'm living fast, but not fast enough cause karma keeps up to me And if my becomes the death of me, I hope you understand
For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me For your eyes do you For your eyes do you 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 I realized, my definition of a real nigga was skewed My views misshaped by new That the shit I learned from in the streets was true That real niggas don't when they beef with you just pull up on your street, let the heat have you And if a real hungry he gon' eat your food I was a fool, all my time ducking school, ducking cops Ducking rules, hugging that don't love you I pray you find a nigga with and point of views Much broader the corner, if not it's gon' corner you Into a box, your son don't 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 father face hearing 'bout tragedy on news I got the strangest feeling your Daddy gonna his life soon And sadly if you're listening now it must mean it's But maybe there's a chance it's not And this album remains locked in a hard drive valuable jewels And I can teach you this in person like I'm teaching you to tie your own I love you and I hope to God I don't you For your only
For eyes For your eyes For your For eyes only For your do you understand
One day your daddy me, told me he had a funny feeling What he'd been dealing 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 voice and it was He said "Jermaine, I since we was children I never asked for nothing When times was hard I never had discussions with you begging you to 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 to speak again I won't forget the spent sleeping at your crib That's the way I my family lived But my granny was in the 'jects I had to like, "Nigga what you talking 'bout? Fuck is you getting at?" He said "Listen, I got no time to dive descriptions But I've been having premonitions, just call it visions from the other I got a feeling I won't see tomorrow, like the time I'm on is borrowed With that said I'm to say I was a father Write my story down and if I go play it for my daughter when she ready So I'm leaving you record for your eyes only, don't you ever scratch it disrespect it perspective is a real one, another lost Ville son I these words to you and all the other children Affected by all the mass incarceration in this That sent your pops to when he needed education Sometimes I think this segregation would've done us 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 daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was cold Not because he was the first to get some twelve years old Not becuase he used to come through in the Caddy on some Not 'cause he went from bagging up them to serving Os Now your daddy was a real nigga, not he was hard Not because he a life of crime and sat behind some bars Not because he screamed the law, although that was true Your was a real nigga 'cos he loved you" For your only