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4 Your Eyez Only

4 Your Eyez Only

J. Cole 4 Your Eyez Only - 4 Your Eyez Only
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Yeah (For your eyes)
For your eyes only
(For your eyes)
For your eyes only,
for your eyes only
(For your eyes, for your eyes)
For your eyes only

[Verse 1]
Hey, niggas be dying
on the daily
It seems my dreams
faded for far too long
The consequences deadly
Can't visualize myself
as nothing but a criminal
Control the block
serving up rocks
and stay subliminal
'Cause young niggas is hardheaded
they letting off
Full of adrenaline
ignorant to what death can cause
Ain't no coming back,
family dressed in black
Plus 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 them Jays on her feet
Like I ain't out
in the field like that
I might be low for the moment
but I will bounce back
Despite the charges,
back to the wall
I fight regardless
Screaming, ＂Fuck the law,＂
my life is lawless
That's what you call it
ain't got to be no psychic
To see this is like the
farthest thing from heaven
This is hell and
I don't mean that hyperbolic
I try to find employment
even if it's wiping toilets
But these felonies be
making life the hardest
Resisting the temptation to
run up and swipe a wallet
Or run up on your yard, snatch
your daughter bike and pawn it
That's why I write this sonnet
If the pressure get too much
for me to take and I break
Play this tape for my daughter
and let her know
my life is on it
(For your eyes) Let her know
my life is on it
(For your eyes)
For your eyes only

[Hook]
For your eyes, do you understand?
For your eyes, do you understand me?
For your eyes, do you understand?
For your eyes, do you understand me?
For your eyes, do you understand?
For your eyes, do you understand me?
For your eyes, do you understand?
For your eyes only?

[Verse 2]
You probably grown now
so this song'll hit you
If you're hearing this
unfortunately
Means that I'm no longer
with you in the physical
Not even sure if I believe
in God but because
you still alive
He got me praying that
the spiritual is real
So I can be a part of
you still
my pops was killed too
So I know how
part of you feels
Maybe you hate me, maybe
you miss me, maybe you spite me
Life goes in cycles, maybe
you'll date a nigga just like me
I hope not?I'm tired of dope spots
And fiends that smoke rocks

I've seen far too
many niggas' hopes rot
I'm writing this because me
and the devil had a dance
Now I see death around the corner
pologizing in advance
Don't know if I ever
had a chance, at a glance
I'm a failure
Addicted to pushing paraphernalia
But Daddy had dreams once
my eyes had a gleam once
Innocence disappeared
by the age of eight years

My Pops shot up?drug-
related?mama addicted
So Granny raised me in projects
where thugs was hanging
Blood was staining the concrete
Older niggas I loved talked
like they was above
Maintaining a time sheet
that slow money
Picked up the family
business by the age of thirteen
Six years later was
handed sentence
'Round the same time is
when you came in this world
Me and your mama thinking:
＂What the fuck
we naming this girl?＂
I told her ＂Nina＂
the prettiest name that
I could think of
For the prettiest thing
my eyes had ever seen
I was nineteen
Took me two felonies to
see the trap
This crooked ass
system set for me
And now I fear it's too
late for me to ever be
The one that set examples
that was never set for me
I'm living fast
but not fast enough
Cause karma keeps
on catching up to me
And if my past
becomes the death of me
I hope you understand?

[Hook]
For your eyes
do you understand?
For your eyes
do you understand me?
For your eyes
do you understand?
For your eyes
do you understand me?
For your eyes
do you understand?
For your eyes
do you understand me?
For your eyes
do you understand?
For your eyes only?

[Verse 3]
It's several ways
I could've went out
too many to count
Was it the trigger
happy crackers that
the badges give clout?
Was it the young niggas
blasting frustrated
Cause the cash running out?
Niggas don't know
how to act in a drought
See, baby girl, I realized

My definition of a real
nigga was skewed
My views misshaped
by new mixtapes
That confirmed the shit
I learned in the streets was true
That real niggas don't speak
when they beef with you
They just pull up on
your street, let the heat achoo
And if a real nigga hungry,
he gon' eat your food
I was a fool, spent all
my time ducking school
ducking cops
Ducking rules, hugging blocks
that don't love you
I pray you find a nigga
with goals and point of views
Much broader than the corner
if not it's gon' corner you
Into a box, where your son
don't even know his pops
And the cyclical nature of
doing time continues
My worst fear is one day
that you come home from school
And see your father face
while hearing 'bout
tragedy on news
I got the strangest feeling
your daddy gonna
lose his life soon
And sadly if you're listening
now it must mean it's true
But maybe there's
a chance that it's not
And this album remains locked
In a hard drive
like valuable jewels
And I can teach you
this in person
Like I'm teaching you
to tie your own shoes
I love you and I hope
to God I don't lose you
For your eyes only

[Hook: CharGuax & J. Cole]
For your eyes
for your eyes only
For your eyes
for your eyes only
For your eyes
do you understand?
For your eyes only?

[Verse 4]
One day your daddy called me,
told me he had a funny feeling
What he'd been dealing
with lately, he wasn't telling
I tried to pick his brains,
still he wasn't revealing
But I could feel the sense of
panic in his voice
And it was chilling, he said:
＂Jermaine, I knew you since
we was children

I never asked for nothing
when times was hard
I never had discussions
with you begging you to help me
I dealt with the
repercussions of my actions
I know you tried to steer
me 'way from that shit
But that shit was in
my blood, you know my life
I know your Momma, nigga;
send my love
In case I never get
a chance to speak again
I won't forget the weekends
spent sleeping at your crib
That's the way I wished
my family lived
But my granny crib
was in the 'jects?＂
I had to interject like:

＂Nigga what you talking 'bout?
Fuck is you getting at?＂
He said, ＂Listen
I got no time to dive
into descriptions
But I've 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 borrowed
With that said, the only
thing I'm proud to say
I was a father
Write my story down and
if I pass

Go play it for my daughter
when she ready＂
And so I'm leaving you
this record for your eyes only
Don't you ever scratch
or disrespect it
This perspective is a real one
another lost 'Ville son
I dedicate these words to
you and all the other children
Affected by the mass
incarceration in this nation
That sent your pops to prison
when he needed education
Sometimes I think that
segregation would've
done us better
Although I know that means
that I would never
Be brought into this world
cause my daddy was so thrilled
When he found him a white
girl to take back to Jonesboro
With 'lil Zach and Cole World
barely one years old
Now it's thirty years late
making sure this story's told
Girl, your
daddy was a real nigga
not cause he was cold
Not because he was the first
To get some
pussy twelve years old
Not because he used
to come through
In the Caddy on some vogues
Not because he
went from bagging up
Them grams to serving O's
Nah, your daddy
was a real nigga
not 'cause he was hard
Not because he lived a
life of crime
and sat behind some bars
Not because he screamed
＂Fuck the law＂
Although that was true
Your daddy was a real
nigga cause he loved you
For your eyes only