For eyes only (for eyes)
For your only, for your eyes only (for eyes)
For eyes only
Hey Niggas be dying on the It my dreams faded for far too long, the consequences deadly Can't myself as nothing but a criminal Control the block, serving up rocks and stay Cause young niggas is headed, they letting off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to death can cause Ain't no coming back, family dressed in Plus it's hot now, the outside it's hard to flip a pack And my daughter gotta eat, her mama be stressing me I ain't the one who put them Jays on her feet Like I ain't out in the field that I be low for the moment but I will bounce back Despite the charges, back to the wall I regardless, "fuck the law", my life is lawless That's you call it Ain't got to be no psychic to see this is like the farthest thing heaven This is and I don't mean that hyperbolic I try to find employment even if the chargeless But these felonies be making life the Resisting the to run up and swipe a wallet Or run up on your yard, snatch daughter bike and pawn it That's why I write this If the pressure get too much for me to take and I Play this tape for my daughter and let her my life is on it Let her know my is on it (For eyes) Let her know my is on For your eyes
For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me For your do you understand For your eyes do you me For your do you understand For your do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you 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 sure if I believe 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 know how part of you Maybe you hate me, you miss me, maybe you spite me Life goes in cycles, maybe date a nigga just like me I hope not, I'm of dope spots And fiends smoke rocks I've far too many niggas 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 glance I'm a failure, addicted to paraphernalia But Daddy had once, my eyes had a gleam once Innocence disappeared by the age of years My Pops up, drug related Mama So Granny raised me in projects thugs was hanging Blood was the concrete Older niggas I loved talked like they was above maintaining a sheet That slow money, picked up the business By the age of thirteen, six years later was handed Round the same time you in this world Me and your mama thinking, the fuck we naming this girl? I told her Nina, the prettiest name that I think of For the prettiest my eyes 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 never set for me I'm living fast, but not fast cause karma keeps catching up to me And if my past becomes the of me, I hope you understand
For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For your eyes do you For your do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me For your do you understand For your eyes do you me
In several ways I could've went out, too many to Was it the trigger crackers that the badges give clout Was it the young nigga, frustrated cause the cash running out Niggas don't know how to act in a See baby girl I realized, my definition of a nigga was skewed My views misshaped by new That the shit I learned from in the streets was true That real don't speak 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, spent all my ducking school, ducking cops rules, hugging blocks that don't love you I pray you find a nigga with goals and of views Much broader than the corner, if not it's corner you Into a box, where your son don't even his pops And the cyclical nature of doing continues My worst fear is one day that you come home from school and see your father while hearing 'bout tragedy on news I got the strangest your Daddy gonna lose his life soon And sadly if you're listening now it must mean true But there's a chance that it's not And this remains locked 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 eyes For your eyes For eyes For your eyes For your do you understand
One day your daddy called me, me he had a funny feeling What he'd been dealing with lately, he telling I to pick his brains, still he wasn't revealing But I could feel the of panic in his voice and it was chilling He said "Jermaine, I knew we was children I never asked for nothing When times was hard I never had discussions you begging you to help me I with the repercussions of my actions I know you to steer me away from that shit But that shit was in my blood, you my life I your momma nigga, send my love In case I never get a to speak again I won't forget the weekends sleeping at your crib That's the way I my family lived But my granny was in the 'jects 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 having premonitions, just call it visions from the other side 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 pass go it for my daughter when she ready So I'm leaving you this record for your eyes only, don't you ever scratch it it This perspective is a real one, another Ville son I these words to you and all the other children Affected by all the mass incarceration in this That your pops to prison when he needed education Sometimes I this 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 take back to Jonesborough Little Zach and Cole World one years old, now it's thirty years later making sure the story's told your daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was cold Not because he was the first to get pussy twelve years old Not becuase he used to through in the Caddy on some vogues Not 'cause he went bagging up them grams to serving Os Now your was a real nigga, not 'cos he was hard Not because he lived a life of crime and sat behind some Not because he fuck the law, although that was true Your daddy was a real nigga 'cos he you" For eyes only