For your only (for eyes)
For your eyes only, for your only (for eyes)
For your only
Hey be dying on the daily It seems my dreams faded for far too long, the deadly visualize myself as nothing but a criminal Control the block, up rocks and stay subliminal Cause young niggas is headed, they letting off Full of adrenaline, to what death can cause Ain't no 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 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 bounce back Despite the charges, to the wall I fight regardless, Screaming "fuck the law", my life is what you call it Ain't got to be no psychic to see this is like the farthest thing heaven is hell and I don't mean that hyperbolic I try to find even if the swiper chargeless But these felonies be life the hardest Resisting the temptation to run up and a wallet Or run up on your yard, your daughter bike and pawn it That's why I write this If the get too much for me to take and I break Play this tape for my daughter and let her know my is on it Let her my life is on it (For eyes) Let her know my is on For your only
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 eyes do you me For eyes do you understand For your eyes do you me
You're probably now so this song'll hit you If hearing 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 the spiritual is real So I can be a of you still, my pops was killed too So I how part of you feels you hate me, maybe you miss me, maybe you spite me Life goes in cycles, maybe you'll date a nigga like me I not, I'm tired of dope spots And fiends that rocks seen far too many niggas hopes rot I'm writing this 'cause me and the had a dance I see round the corner, apologizing in advance 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 by the age of eight years My Pops shot up, related addicted So Granny raised me in where thugs was hanging Blood was staining the Older niggas I loved talked like they was above maintaining a sheet That slow money, picked up the family By the age of thirteen, six years was handed sentence the same time you came 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 thing my eyes had ever seen I was nineteen, it took me two felonies to see the trap, this 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 you understand
For your eyes do you For eyes do you understand 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 do you understand For eyes 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 young nigga, blasting frustrated the cash running out Niggas don't know how to act in a See baby girl I realized, my definition of a real was skewed My misshaped by new mixtapes That confirmed the I learned from in the streets was true That real niggas don't when they beef with you just 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 rules, hugging blocks that don't love you I pray you find a with goals and point of views Much broader the corner, if not it's gon' corner you Into a box, where son don't even know his pops And the cyclical of doing time continues My worst fear is one day that you home from school and see your father face while hearing 'bout tragedy on news I got the strangest feeling your Daddy gonna his life soon And sadly if you're listening now it must mean true But maybe there's a that it's not And album remains locked in a hard drive like valuable jewels And I can teach you this in person I'm teaching you to tie your own shoes I love you and I hope to God I lose you For your only
For your For your eyes For your For eyes only For your do you understand
One day your daddy called me, told me he had a feeling What he'd been dealing lately, he wasn't telling I tried to his brains, still he wasn't revealing But I could feel the sense of in his voice and it was chilling He said "Jermaine, I knew since we was I never asked for nothing When was hard I never had discussions with you begging you to help me I dealt with the repercussions of my I you tried to steer me away from that shit But that shit was in my blood, you my life I know your momma nigga, my love In case I get a chance to speak again I won't the weekends spent sleeping at your crib That's the way I wished my lived But my crib 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 into descriptions But been having premonitions, just 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 that 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 your eyes only, don't you scratch it disrespect it This perspective is a real one, lost Ville son I dedicate words to you and all the other children Affected by all the mass incarceration in nation That sent pops to prison when 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 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 later making sure the told Girl daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was cold Not he was the first to get some pussy twelve years old Not becuase he used to come through in the Caddy on some Not he went 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 crime and sat behind bars Not because he screamed the law, although that was true Your daddy was a real nigga he loved you" For your eyes