For your eyes (for eyes)
For your only, for your eyes only (for eyes)
For your eyes
Hey be dying on the daily It seems my dreams for far too long, the consequences deadly Can't visualize myself as nothing but a Control the block, serving up rocks and stay 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 cops outside 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 out in the field like that I might be low for the moment but I will back Despite the charges, to the wall I fight regardless, "fuck the law", my life is lawless That's what you it got to be no psychic to see this is like the farthest thing from heaven This is hell and I mean that hyperbolic I try to find employment even if the chargeless But felonies be making life the hardest Resisting the temptation to run up and swipe a Or run up on your yard, snatch daughter bike and pawn it why I write this sonnet If the get too much for me to take and I break 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 know my is on For eyes only
For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For your do you understand For your eyes do you me
You're probably grown now so this hit you If you're this it means unfortunately I'm no longer with you In the physical, not even if I believe in God But because you alive He got me praying that the spiritual is So I can be a part of you still, my was killed too So I know how part of you Maybe you hate me, maybe you miss me, you spite me Life goes in cycles, maybe you'll date a just like me I hope not, I'm tired of spots And fiends that rocks seen far too many niggas hopes rot I'm writing 'cause me and the devil had a dance I see death the corner, apologizing in advance Don't if I ever had a chance At a I'm a failure, addicted to pushing paraphernalia But had dreams once, my eyes had a gleam once Innocence disappeared by the age of years My Pops shot up, drug Mama So Granny raised me in where thugs was hanging was staining the concrete Older I loved talked like they was above maintaining a time sheet slow money, picked up the family business By the age of thirteen, six years later was sentence Round the same you came in this world Me and your mama thinking, what the we naming this girl? I told her Nina, the prettiest that I could think of For the prettiest thing my had ever seen I was nineteen, it took me two felonies to see the trap, crooked ass system set for me And now it's too late for me to ever be the one that set 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 your eyes do you 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 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 nigga, blasting frustrated cause the cash running out don't know how to act in a drought See girl I realized, my definition of a real nigga was skewed My views misshaped by new That confirmed the shit I learned from in the streets was That real niggas don't when they beef with you They pull up on your street, let the heat 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 a nigga with goals and point of views Much broader than the corner, if not it's gon' you Into a box, where your son don't even know his And the cyclical of doing time continues My worst fear is one day that you come home from school and see your father face while hearing 'bout on news I got the strangest feeling your Daddy lose his life soon And sadly if you're listening now it must it's true But maybe there's a that it's not And this album remains in a hard drive like valuable jewels And I can teach you in person like I'm teaching you to tie your own shoes I love you and I hope to God I lose you For eyes only
For your For your only For eyes For eyes only For your eyes do you
One day your daddy called me, told me he had a funny 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 panic in his and it was chilling He said "Jermaine, I knew since we was I never asked for nothing When times was I never had discussions with you begging you to help me I dealt the repercussions of my actions I know you tried to steer me from that shit But that shit was in my blood, you know my I know momma nigga, send my love In case I get a chance to speak again I won't forget the weekends spent sleeping at your That's the way I wished my family But my granny was in the 'jects I had to interject like, "Nigga what you 'bout? Fuck is you getting at?" He said "Listen, I got no to dive into 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 time I'm living on is With said I'm proud to say I was a father Write my story down and if I pass go play it for my daughter she ready So I'm leaving you this record for eyes only, don't you ever scratch it disrespect it This perspective is a real one, another lost son I dedicate words to you and all the other children Affected by all the mass incarceration in this That sent your pops to prison he needed education Sometimes I think segregation would've done us better Although that means I would never be brought into this world 'cos my daddy was so thrilled when he found him a white girl to back to Jonesborough with Little Zach and Cole World barely one years old, now it's thirty years later making sure the told Girl your daddy was a nigga, not 'cos he was cold Not because he was the first to get pussy twelve years old Not becuase he used to come in the Caddy on some vogues Not 'cause he went from bagging up them grams to 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 he screamed fuck the law, although that was true Your daddy was a real 'cos he loved you" For your only