For eyes only (for eyes)
For eyes only, for your eyes only (for eyes)
For your only
Hey Niggas be dying on the It seems my dreams faded for far too long, the consequences Can't visualize myself as but a criminal the block, serving up rocks and stay subliminal Cause young niggas is headed, they letting off of adrenaline, ignorant to what death can cause Ain't no coming back, dressed in black Plus it's hot now, the cops 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 moment but I will bounce Despite the charges, to the wall I fight regardless, "fuck the law", my life is lawless That's you call it got to be no psychic to see this is like the farthest thing from heaven This is hell and I don't mean hyperbolic I try to find employment if the swiper chargeless But these felonies be making the hardest Resisting the temptation to run up and swipe a Or run up on your yard, snatch your bike and pawn it That's why I this sonnet If the pressure get too for me to take and I break Play this tape for my 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 eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me For your eyes do you For your do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me For your do you understand For your eyes do you me
probably grown now so this song'll hit you If you're hearing it means unfortunately I'm no longer with you In the physical, not even sure if I in God But because you alive He got me praying the spiritual is real So I can be a of you still, my pops was killed too So I how part of you feels Maybe you hate me, maybe you miss me, you spite me goes in cycles, maybe you'll date a nigga just like me I hope not, I'm tired of spots And fiends smoke rocks I've seen far too niggas hopes rot I'm writing this me and the devil had a dance I see death the corner, apologizing in advance Don't know if I had a chance At a glance I'm a failure, to pushing paraphernalia But Daddy had once, my eyes had a gleam once Innocence by the age of eight years My Pops shot up, drug Mama So Granny raised me in where thugs was hanging Blood was staining the Older I loved talked like they was above maintaining a time sheet That slow money, up the family business By the age of thirteen, six years later was handed Round the same time you in this world Me and your thinking, what the fuck we naming this girl? I told her Nina, the prettiest that I could think of For the prettiest my eyes 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 fast, but not fast enough cause karma keeps catching up to me And if my past becomes the death of me, I you understand
For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you 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 crackers that the badges give clout Was it the young nigga, 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 misshaped by new mixtapes That confirmed the I learned from in the streets was true That niggas don't speak when they beef with you They just pull up on 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, blocks that don't love you I pray you find a nigga goals and point of views Much broader than the corner, if not it's gon' you Into a box, where your son even know his pops And the nature of doing time continues My worst is one day that you come home from school and see your father face while hearing 'bout tragedy on news I got the feeling your Daddy gonna lose his life soon And if you're listening now it must mean it's true But there's a chance that it's not And this album remains locked in a hard drive valuable jewels And I can you this in person like I'm teaching you to tie your own shoes I love you and I to God I don't lose you For your eyes
For your For your only For eyes For eyes only For your do you understand
One day your daddy called me, told me he had a funny What he'd been dealing with lately, he telling I to pick his brains, still he wasn't revealing But I could the sense of panic 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 you begging you to help me I dealt with the of my actions I know you tried to steer me away from that 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 the weekends spent sleeping at your crib That's the way I wished my family 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 from the other side I got a feeling I won't see tomorrow, like the time I'm 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 This perspective is a real one, another lost son I these words to you and all the other children by all the mass incarceration in this nation That sent your pops to prison when he needed Sometimes I think this segregation would've us better Although that means I would never be brought into this world 'cos my daddy was so thrilled when he him a white girl to take back to Jonesborough with Little Zach and Cole World one years old, now it's thirty years later making sure the story's told Girl your daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was 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 grams to Os Now your daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was Not he lived a life of crime and sat behind some bars Not because he screamed fuck the law, although that was Your daddy was a real nigga 'cos he you" For eyes only