For your eyes (for eyes)
For your only, for your eyes only (for eyes)
For your only
Hey Niggas be on the daily It seems my faded for far too long, the consequences deadly Can't visualize myself as but a criminal the block, serving up rocks and stay subliminal Cause young niggas is headed, they letting off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to what death can Ain't no coming back, family 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 the one who put them Jays on her feet I ain't out in the field like that 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 what you it Ain't got to be no psychic to see this is the farthest thing from heaven This is hell and I don't that hyperbolic I try to employment even if the swiper chargeless But these be making life the hardest the temptation 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 Play 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 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 do you understand me For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me
You're grown now so this song'll hit you If you're hearing this it means unfortunately I'm no longer you In the physical, not even sure if I in God But you still alive He got me praying that the is real So I can be a part of you still, my was killed too So I how part of you feels Maybe you me, maybe you miss me, maybe you spite me Life goes in cycles, maybe you'll a nigga just like me I hope not, I'm of dope spots And fiends that rocks I've seen far too many hopes rot I'm writing this 'cause me and the had a dance I see death round the corner, apologizing in know if I ever had a chance At a I'm a failure, addicted to pushing paraphernalia But Daddy had dreams once, my eyes had a once Innocence disappeared by the age of eight My shot up, drug related Mama So Granny raised me in projects where was hanging Blood was the concrete Older niggas I loved talked like they was above maintaining a time slow money, picked up the family business By the age of thirteen, six years later was sentence Round the same time you came in world Me and your mama thinking, what the fuck we naming girl? I told her Nina, the prettiest 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 enough cause karma keeps catching up to me And if my past becomes the death of me, I hope you
For your do you understand For your do you understand me For your eyes do you For your do you understand me For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For your do you understand For your do you understand me
In ways I could've went out, too many to count Was it the trigger crackers that the badges give clout Was it the young nigga, blasting frustrated cause the 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 confirmed the shit I learned from in the streets was true That real don't speak when they beef with you just pull up on your street, let the heat have you And if a real nigga hungry he eat your food I was a fool, all my time ducking school, ducking cops Ducking rules, hugging blocks that don't you I pray you find a with goals and point of views broader than the corner, if not it's gon' corner you Into a box, where your son don't know his pops And the cyclical nature of doing continues My worst fear is one day that you come home from and see your father face while hearing 'bout tragedy on news I got the strangest feeling your Daddy gonna lose his soon And if you're listening now it must mean it's true But maybe there's a chance that not And this album remains locked in a hard drive like 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 don't you For your only
For your For your eyes For eyes For eyes only For your eyes do you
One day your daddy called me, told me he had a funny What been dealing with lately, he wasn't telling I tried to pick his brains, still he revealing But I feel the sense of panic in his voice and it was chilling He said "Jermaine, I knew since we was children I never for nothing When was hard I never had discussions with you begging you to help me I dealt the repercussions of my actions I know you to steer me away from that shit But that shit was in my blood, you know my I know your nigga, send my love In case I get a chance to speak again I won't forget the weekends sleeping at your crib That's the way I wished my lived But my granny crib was in the I had to interject like, "Nigga what you talking Fuck is you getting at?" He said "Listen, I got no time to dive into But I've been premonitions, just call it visions from the other side I got a feeling I won't see tomorrow, like the I'm living on is borrowed that said I'm proud to say I was a father Write my story down and if I pass go it for my daughter when she ready So I'm leaving you this record for 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 incarceration in this nation That sent pops to prison when he needed education I think this segregation would've done us better Although that means I would never be brought 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 years 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 twelve years old Not he used to come through in the Caddy on some vogues Not he went from bagging up them grams to serving Os Now your daddy was a nigga, not 'cos he was hard Not because he lived a life of crime and sat some bars Not because he fuck the law, although that was true daddy was a real nigga 'cos he loved you" For your only