《4 Your Eyez Only》歌词

[00:00:00] 4 Your Eyez Only - J. Cole

[00:00:01] 词曲：Jermaine Cole

[00:00:03] Yeah

[00:00:07] For your eyes only for your eyes

[00:00:13] For your eyes only for your eyes only

[00:00:19] For your eyes

[00:00:22] For your eyes only

[00:00:24] Hey be dying on the daily

[00:00:26] It seems my dreams faded for far too long

[00:00:29] The consequences deadly

[00:00:30] Can't visualize myself as nothing but a criminal

[00:00:33] Control the block serving up rocks and stay subliminal

[00:00:36] 'Cause young is hardheaded they letting off

[00:00:40] Full of adrenaline ignorant to what death can cause

[00:00:43] Ain't no coming back family dressed in black

[00:00:45] Plus it's hot now the cops outside it's hard to flip a pack

[00:00:49] And my daughter gotta eat her mama be stressing me

[00:00:52] Like I ain't the one who put them jays on her feet

[00:00:55] Like I ain't out in the field like that

[00:00:57] I might be low for the moment but I will bounce back

[00:01:00] Despite the charges back to the wall I fight regardless

[00:01:04] Screaming f**k the law my life is lawless

[00:01:06] That's what you call it ain't got to be no psychic

[00:01:08] To see this is like the farthest thing from heaven

[00:01:11] This is hell and I don't mean that hyperbolic

[00:01:13] I try to find employment even if it's wiping toilets

[00:01:16] But these felonies be making life the hardest

[00:01:18] Resisting the temptation to run up and swipe a wallet

[00:01:21] Or run up on your yard snatch your daughter bike and pawn it

[00:01:25] That's why I write this sonnet

[00:01:26] If the pressure get too much for me to take and I break

[00:01:29] Play this tape for my daughter and let her know my life is on it

[00:01:33] For your eyes let her know my life is on it

[00:01:36] For your eyes for your eyes only

[00:01:39] For your eyes do you understand

[00:01:42] For your eyes do you understand me

[00:01:45] For your eyes do you understand

[00:01:48] For your eyes do you understand me

[00:01:51] For your eyes do you understand

[00:01:54] For your eyes do you understand me

[00:01:57] For your eyes do you understand

[00:02:01] For your eyes only

[00:02:03] You probably grown now so this song'll hit you

[00:02:04] If you're hearing this unfortunately

[00:02:06] Means that I'm no longer with you in the physical

[00:02:09] Not even sure if I believe in God but because you still alive

[00:02:13] He got me praying that the spiritual is real

[00:02:15] So I can be a part of you still my pops was killed too

[00:02:19] So I know how part of you feels

[00:02:20] Maybe you hate me maybe you miss me maybe you spite me

[00:02:24] Life goes in cycles maybe you'll date a just like me

[00:02:27] I hope not I'm tired of dope spots

[00:02:29] And fiends that smoke rocks

[00:02:31] I've seen far too many hopes rot

[00:02:33] I'm writing this because me and the devil had a dance

[00:02:36] Now I see death around the corner apologizing in advance

[00:02:39] Don't know if I ever had a chance at a glance I'm a failure

[00:02:43] Addicted to pushing paraphernalia

[00:02:45] But daddy had dreams once my eyes had a gleam once

[00:02:49] Innocence disappeared by the age of eight years

[00:02:51] My pops shot up drug related mama addicted

[00:02:54] So granny raised me in projects where thugs was hanging

[00:02:57] Blood was staining the concrete

[00:02:59] Older I loved talked like they was above

[00:03:02] Maintaining a time sheet that slow money

[00:03:05] Picked up the family business by the age of thirteen

[00:03:08] Six years later was handed sentence

[00:03:10] 'Round the same time is when you came in this world

[00:03:12] Me and your mama thinking

[00:03:14] What the f**k we naming this girl

[00:03:16] I told her Nina the prettiest name that I could think of

[00:03:19] For the prettiest thing my eyes had ever seen I was nineteen

[00:03:23] Took me two felonies to see the trap

[00:03:25] This crooked ass system set for me

[00:03:27] And now I fear it's too late for me to ever be

[00:03:30] The one that set examples that was never set for me

[00:03:34] I'm living fast but not fast enough

[00:03:36] Cause karma keeps on catching up to me

[00:03:38] And if my past becomes the death of me

[00:03:40] I hope you understand

[00:03:42] For your eyes do you understand

[00:03:45] For your eyes do you understand me

[00:03:48] For your eyes do you understand

[00:03:51] For your eyes do you understand me

[00:03:54] For your eyes do you understand

[00:03:57] For your eyes do you understand me

[00:04:00] For your eyes do you understand

[00:04:03] For your eyes only

[00:04:05] It's several ways I could've went out too many to count

[00:04:08] Was it the trigger happy crackers that the badges give clout

[00:04:12] Was it the young blasting frustrated

[00:04:13] Cause the cash running out

[00:04:15] Don't know how to act in a drought

[00:04:18] See baby girl I realized

[00:04:18] My definition of a real was skewed

[00:04:21] My views misshaped by new mixtapes

[00:04:24] That confirmed the shit I learned in the streets was true

[00:04:27] That real don't speak when they beef with you

[00:04:30] They just pull up on your street let the heat achoo

[00:04:33] And if a real hungry he gon' eat your food

[00:04:36] I was a fool spent all my time ducking school ducking cops

[00:04:40] Ducking rules hugging blocks that don't love you

[00:04:42] I pray you find a with goals and point of views

[00:04:45] Much broader than the corner if not it's gon' corner you

[00:04:48] Into a box where your son don't even know his pops

[00:04:51] And the cyclical nature of doing time continues

[00:04:54] My worst fear is one day that you come home from school

[00:04:58] And see your father face while hearing 'bout tragedy on news

[00:05:00] I got the strangest feeling your daddy gonna lose his life soon

[00:05:04] And sadly if you're listening now it must mean it's true

[00:05:07] But maybe there's a chance that it's not

[00:05:09] And this album remains locked

[00:05:11] In a hard drive like valuable jewels

[00:05:13] And I can teach you this in person

[00:05:14] Like I'm teaching you to tie your own shoes

[00:05:17] I love you and I hope to God I don't lose you

[00:05:19] For your eyes only

[00:05:20] For your eyes for your eyes only

[00:05:32] For your eyes for your eyes only

[00:05:39] For your eyes do you understand

[00:05:42] For your eyes only

[00:06:09] One day your daddy called me told me he had a funny feeling

[00:06:12] What he'd been dealing with lately he wasn't telling

[00:06:15] I tried to pick his brains still he wasn't revealing

[00:06:17] But I could feel the sense of panic in his voice

[00:06:20] And it was chilling he said

[00:06:21] Jermaine I knew you since we was children

[00:06:23] I never asked for nothing when times was hard

[00:06:25] I never had discussions with you begging you to help me

[00:06:28] I dealt with the repercussions of my actions

[00:06:31] I know you tried to steer me 'way from that shit

[00:06:33] But that shit was in my blood you know my life

[00:06:36] I know your mamma send my love

[00:06:38] In case I never get a chance to speak again

[00:06:40] I won't forget the weekends spent sleeping at your crib

[00:06:43] That's the way I wished my family lived

[00:06:45] But my granny crib was in the 'jects

[00:06:47] I had to interject like

[00:06:48] What you talking 'bout f**k is you getting at

[00:06:51] He said listen I got no time to dive into descriptions

[00:06:55] But I've been having premonitions

[00:06:57] Just call it visions from the other side

[00:06:59] I got a feeling I won't see tomorrow

[00:07:01] Like the time I'm living on is borrowed

[00:07:04] With that said the only thing I'm proud to say I was a father

[00:07:07] Write my story down and if I pass

[00:07:09] Go play it for my daughter when she ready

[00:07:11] And so I'm leaving you this record for your eyes only

[00:07:14] Don't you ever scratch or disrespect it

[00:07:16] This perspective is a real one another lost 'ville son

[00:07:19] I dedicate these words to you and all the other children

[00:07:23] Affected by the mass incarceration in this nation

[00:07:25] That sent your pops to prison when he needed education

[00:07:28] Sometimes I think that segregation would've done us better

[00:07:31] Although I know that means that I would never

[00:07:33] Be brought into this world cause my daddy was so thrilled

[00:07:37] When he found him a white girl to take back to Jonesboro

[00:07:40] With little Zach and Cole world barely one years old

[00:07:43] Now it's thirty years later making sure this story's told

[00:07:46] Girl your daddy was a real not cause he was cold

[00:07:49] Not because he was the first

[00:07:50] To get some pussy twelve years old

[00:07:52] Not because he used to come through

[00:07:54] In the Caddy on some vogues

[00:07:55] Not because he went from bagging up

[00:07:57] Them grams to serving O's

[00:07:58] Nah your daddy was a real not 'cause he was hard

[00:08:01] Not because he lived a life of crime and sat behind some bars

[00:08:04] Not because he screamed f**k the law

[00:08:06] Although that was true

[00:08:08] Your daddy was a real cause he loved you

[00:08:11] For your eyes only