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4 Your Eyez Only
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J Cole
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For your eyes only, for your eyes only
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(for your eyes)
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Hey
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Niggas be dying on the daily
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It seems my dreams faded for far too long, the consequences deadly
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Can't visualize myself as nothing but a criminal
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Control the block, serving up rocks and stay subliminal
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Cause young niggas is hard headed, they letting off
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Full of adrenaline, ignorant to what death can cause
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Ain't no coming back, family dressed in black
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Plus it's hot now, the cops outside it's hard to flip a pack
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And my daughter gotta eat, her mama be stressing me like I ain't the one who put them Jays on her feet
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Like I ain't out in the field like that
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I might be low for the moment but I will bounce back
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Despite the charges, back to the wall I fight regardless, Screaming "fuck the law", my life is lawless
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That's what you call it
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Ain't got to be no psychic to see this is like the farthest thing from heaven
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This is hell and I don't mean that hyperbolic
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I try to find employment even if the swiper chargeless
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But these felonies be making life the hardest
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Resisting the temptation to run up and swipe a wallet
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Or run up on your yard, snatch your daughter bike and pawn it
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That's why I write this sonnet
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If the pressure get too much for me to take and I break
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Play this tape for my daughter and let her know my life is on it
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Let her know my life is on it
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(For your eyes)
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Let her know my life is on
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For your eyes only
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For your eyes do you understand
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For your eyes do you understand me
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For your eyes do you understand
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For your eyes do you understand me
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For your eyes do you understand
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For your eyes do you understand me
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For your eyes do you understand
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For your eyes do you understand me
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You're probably grown now so this song'll hit you
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If you're hearing this unfortunately means that I'm no longer with you
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In the physical, not even sure if I believe in God
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But because you still alive
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He got me praying that the spiritual is real
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So I can be a part of you still, my pops was killed too
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So I know how part of you feels
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Maybe you hate me, maybe you miss me, maybe you spite me
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Life goes in cycles, maybe you'll date a nigga just like me
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I hope not, I'm tired of dope spots
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And fiends that smoke rocks, I've seen far too many niggas hopes rot
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I'm writing this because me and the devil had a dance
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Now I see death around the corner, apologizing in advance
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Don't know if I ever had a chance
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At a glance I'm a failure, addicted to pushing paraphernalia
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But Daddy had dreams once, my eyes had a gleam once
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Innocence disappeared by the age of eight years
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My Pops shot up, drug related
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Mama addicted
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So Granny raised me in projects where thugs was hanging
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Blood was staining the concrete
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Older niggas I loved talked like they was above maintaining a time sheet
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That slow money, picked up the family business
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By the age of thirteen, six years later was handed sentence
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Round the same time is when you came in this world
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Me and your mama thinking, what the fuck we naming this girl?
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I told her Nina, the prettiest name that I could think of
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For the prettiest thing my eyes had ever seen
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I was nineteen, took me two felonies to see the trap, this crooked ass system set for me
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And now I fear it's too late for me to ever be the one that set examples that was never set for me
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I'm living fast, but not fast enough cause karma keeps on catching up to me
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And if my past becomes the death of me, I hope you understand
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For your eyes do you understand
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For your eyes do you understand me
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For your eyes do you understand
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For your eyes do you understand me
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For your eyes do you understand
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For your eyes do you understand me
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For your eyes do you understand
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For your eyes do you understand me
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It's several ways I could've went out, too many to count
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Was it the trigger happy crackers that the badges give clout
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Was it the young niggas, blasting frustrated cause the cash running out
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Niggas don't know how to act in a drought
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See baby girl I realized, my definition of a real nigga was skewed
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My views misshaped by new mixtapes
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That confirmed the shit I learned in the streets was true
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That real niggas don't speak when they beef with you
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They just pull up on your street, let the heat at you
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And if a real nigga hungry he gon' eat your food
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I was a fool, spent all my time ducking school, ducking cops
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Ducking rules, hugging blocks that don't love you
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I pray you find a nigga with goals and point of views
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Much broader than the corner, if not it's gon' corner you
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Into a box, where your son don't even know his pops
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And the cyclical nature of doing time continues
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My worst fear is one day that you come home from school and see your father face while hearing 'bout tragedy on news
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I got the strangest feeling your Daddy gonna lose his life soon
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And sadly if you're listening now it must mean it's true
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But maybe there's a chance that it's not
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And this album remains locked in a hard drive like valuable jewels
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And I can teach you this in person like I'm teaching you to tie your own shoes
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I love you and I hope to God I don't lose you
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For your eyes only
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For your eyes
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For your eyes only
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For your eyes
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For your eyes only
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For your eyes do you understand
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One day your daddy called me, told me he had a funny feeling
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What he'd been dealing with lately, he wasn't telling
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I tried to pick his brains, still he wasn't revealing
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But I could feel the sense of panic in his voice and it was chilling
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He said "Jermaine, I knew you since we was children I never asked for nothing
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When times was hard I never had discussions with you begging you to help me
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I dealt with the repercussions of my actions
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I know you tried to steer me 'way from that shit
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But that shit was in my blood, you know my life
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I know your Momma nigga, send my love
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In case I never get a chance to speak again
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I won't forget the weekends spent sleeping at your crib
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That's the way I wished my family lived
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But my granny crib was in the 'jects
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I had to interject like, "Nigga what you talking 'bout? Fuck is you getting at?"
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He said "Listen, I got no time to dive into descriptions
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But I've been having premonitions, just call it visions from the other side
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I got a feeling I won't see tomorrow, like the time I'm living on is borrowed
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With that said the only thing I'm proud to say I was a father
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Write my story down and if I pass go play it for my daughter when she ready
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And so I'm leaving you this record for your eyes only, don't you ever scratch or disrespect it
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This perspective is a real one, another lost Ville son
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I dedicate these words to you and all the other children
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Affected by the mass incarceration in this nation
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That sent your pops to prison when he needed education
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Sometimes I think this segregation would've done us better
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Although I know that means I would never be brought into this world 'cuz my daddy was so thrilled when he found him a white girl to take back to Jonesborough with
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'lil Zach and Cole World barely one years old, now it's thirty years later making sure the story's told
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Girl your daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was cold
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Not because he was the first to get some pussy twelve years old
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Not because he used to come through in the Caddy on some vogues
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Not because he went from bagging up them grams to serving O's
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Nah your daddy was a real nigga, not 'cos he was hard
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Not because he lived a life of crime and sat behind some bars
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Not because he screamed fuck the law, although that was true
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Your daddy was a real nigga 'cuz he loved you"
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For your eyes only
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Suggest correctionsEmbed on website
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Songwriters: Jermaine Cole.
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Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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