For eyes only (for eyes)
For your eyes only, for your eyes (for eyes)
For your only
Hey Niggas be dying on the It seems my faded for far too long, the consequences deadly visualize myself as nothing but a criminal Control the block, serving up and stay subliminal Cause young niggas is headed, they letting off Full of adrenaline, ignorant to what death can Ain't no coming back, dressed in black it's hot now, the cops outside 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 back Despite the charges, back to the I fight regardless, Screaming "fuck the law", my life is That's you call it Ain't got to be no psychic to see this is like the thing from heaven This is hell and I don't mean that I try to find employment even if the chargeless But these 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 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 my life is on it (For eyes) Let her know my is on For your eyes
For your eyes do you For your eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand me For eyes do you understand For your do you understand me
You're probably now so this song'll hit you If you're hearing this it unfortunately I'm no longer with 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 of you still, my pops was killed too So I know how part of you you hate me, maybe you miss me, maybe you spite me Life in cycles, maybe you'll date a nigga just like me I hope not, I'm of dope spots And that smoke rocks seen far too many niggas hopes rot I'm writing this 'cause me and the devil had a I see round the corner, apologizing in advance know if I ever had a chance At a glance I'm a failure, to pushing paraphernalia But had dreams once, my eyes had a gleam once disappeared by the age of eight years My shot up, drug related Mama So Granny raised me in projects where thugs was was staining the concrete Older niggas I talked like they was above maintaining a time sheet slow money, picked up the family business By the age of thirteen, six later was handed sentence Round the same time you came in world Me and your mama thinking, what the fuck we naming girl? I her Nina, the prettiest name that I could think of For the prettiest thing my eyes had ever 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 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 becomes the death of me, I hope you understand
For your do you understand For your do you understand me For your do you understand For eyes do you understand me For eyes do you understand For eyes do you understand me For your do you understand For your do you understand me
In several ways I went out, too many to count Was it the trigger happy that the badges give clout Was it the nigga, blasting frustrated cause the cash running out Niggas don't know how to act in a See girl I realized, my definition of a real nigga was skewed My views misshaped by new That confirmed the shit I learned in the streets was true That niggas don't speak when they beef with you They just pull up on your street, let the have you And if a nigga hungry he gon' eat your food I was a fool, spent all my time ducking school, cops Ducking rules, blocks that don't love you I pray you find a nigga with and point of views Much broader than the corner, if not gon' corner you Into a box, where your son don't even 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 while hearing 'bout tragedy on news I got the strangest feeling your gonna lose his life soon And sadly if listening now it must mean it's true But maybe a chance that it's not And this album remains locked in a hard drive like valuable 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 lose you For your eyes
For eyes For eyes only For eyes For your only For your do you understand
One day your daddy called me, told me he had a feeling What been dealing with lately, he wasn't telling I tried to pick his brains, still he revealing 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 had discussions with you begging you to help me I dealt with the of my actions I know you tried to steer me away from shit But that shit was in my blood, you my life I your momma nigga, send my love In case I never get a chance to again I won't forget the spent sleeping at your crib That's the way I wished my family But my granny crib was in the I had to interject like, "Nigga what you talking 'bout? Fuck is you at?" He said "Listen, I got no time to dive 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 go play it for my daughter when she ready So I'm leaving you this record for your eyes only, you ever scratch it disrespect it This perspective is a one, another lost Ville son I dedicate these words to you and all the other Affected by all the mass incarceration in this That sent your pops to prison he needed education Sometimes I think this 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 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 he used to come through in the Caddy on some vogues Not 'cause he from bagging up them grams to serving Os Now daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was hard Not because he lived a life of and sat behind some bars Not because he screamed the law, although that was true Your daddy was a real 'cos he loved you" For your eyes