4 Your Eyez Only (Explicit) - J. Cole
Lyrics by：Jermaine Cole
Composed by：Jermaine Cole
Yeah
For your eyes only for your eyes
For your eyes only for your eyes only
都只为了你 只为你
For your eyes
For your eyes only
都只为了你 仅仅只为你
Hey be dying on the daily
It seems my dreams faded for far too long
为了你
The consequences deadly
Can't visualize myself as nothing but a criminal
只是为了你
Control the block serving up rocks and stay subliminal
'Cause young is hardheaded they letting off
每天都有人死去
Full of adrenaline ignorant to what death can cause
好像我早就忘记了自己的梦想
Ain't no coming back family dressed in black
Plus it's hot now the cops outside it's hard to flip a pack
后果不堪设想
And my daughter gotta eat her mama be stressing me
我感觉自己是个十恶不赦的罪犯
Like I ain't the one who put them jays on her feet
Like I ain't out in the field like that
控制着街区 偷偷摸摸干着见不得人的勾当
I might be low for the moment but I will bounce back
Despite the charges back to the wall I fight regardless
因为年轻人太顽固 他们什么都不顾
Screaming f**k the law my life is lawless
That's what you call it ain't got to be no psychic
充满了肾上腺素 完全不知道死亡意味着什么
To see this is like the farthest thing from heaven
This is hell and I don't mean that hyperbolic
结果长眠不起 家人一身黑衣
I try to find employment even if it's wiping toilets
而且现在风头正紧 外面到处是警察 生意很难继续下去
But these felonies be making life the hardest
Resisting the temptation to run up and swipe a wallet
我的女儿要吃饭 她的妈妈给我施加压力
Or run up on your yard snatch your daughter bike and pawn it
就好像不是我给她买的漂亮鞋子
That's why I write this sonnet
If the pressure get too much for me to take and I break
就好像我没有拼命挣钱一样
Play this tape for my daughter and let her know my life is on it
现在我可能处于低谷 但是我会卷土重来
For your eyes let her know my life is on it
不管会遇到怎样的指控 我破釜沉舟 不顾一切
For your eyes for your eyes only
大声呼喊 去他的法律 我的人生无法无天
For your eyes do you understand
这就是你们的说法 不必拥有通灵术
For your eyes do you understand me
就能明白 这里好像是离天堂最远的地方
For your eyes do you understand
这简直就是地狱 我一点没有夸张
For your eyes do you understand me
For your eyes do you understand
我想要找个工作 就算是打扫厕所我也愿意
For your eyes do you understand me
但这些重罪让生活寸步难行
For your eyes do you understand
For your eyes only
如果不去干不法生意挣钱养家
You probably grown now so this song'll hit you
你就只能跑到你家院子 抢了你女儿的自行车 拿去抵押
If you're hearing this unfortunately
这就是我写这首歌的原因
Means that I'm no longer with you in the physical
如果我承受的压力太大 一去不回
Not even sure if I believe in God but because you still alive
把这首歌唱给我的女儿听 让她知道我为生活拼了命
He got me praying that the spiritual is real
So I can be a part of you still my pops was killed too
为了你 让她知道我为生活拼了命
So I know how part of you feels
Maybe you hate me maybe you miss me maybe you spite me
为了你 只是为了你
Life goes in cycles maybe you'll date a just like me
I hope not I'm tired of d**e spots
为了你 你明白吗
And fiends that smoke rocks
I've seen far too many hopes rot
为了你 你能理解我吗
I'm writing this because me and the devil had a dance
Now I see death around the corner apologizing in advance
为了你 你明白吗
Don't know if I ever had a chance at a glance I'm a failure
Addicted to pushing paraphernalia
为了你 你能理解我吗
But daddy had dreams once my eyes had a gleam once
Innocence disappeared by the age of eight years
为了你 你明白吗
My pops shot up ** related mama addicted
So granny raised me in projects where thugs was hanging
为了你 你能理解我吗
Blood was staining the concrete
Older I loved talked like they was above
为了你 你明白吗
Maintaining a time sheet that slow money
Picked up the family business by the age of thirteen
只是为了你
Six years later was handed sentence
现在你应该已经长大了 所以这首歌可以唱给你听了
'Round the same time is when you came in this world
如果你听到这首歌 那很不幸
Me and your mama thinking
这意味着我已经不在你身边了
What the f**k we naming this girl
我不确定自己信不信上帝 但是因为你还活着
I told her Nina the prettiest name that I could think of
我希望世上真的有神灵存在
For the prettiest thing my eyes had ever seen I was nineteen
这样我依然能参与你的人生 我的父亲也被杀了
Took me two felonies to see the trap
所以我也算理解你的感受
This crooked a** system set for me
或许你讨厌我 或许你想念我 或许你怨恨我
And now I fear it's too late for me to ever be
人生循环往复 或许你会找个像我一样的男朋友
The one that set examples that was never set for me
我希望不要这样 我已经厌倦了做这种生意
I'm living fast but not fast enough
Cause karma keeps on catching up to me
厌倦了那些恶魔
And if my past becomes the death of me
我看到太多人的希望破灭
I hope you understand
我写下这些 是因为我与恶魔交过手
For your eyes do you understand
现在我发现死亡近在眼前 提前向你道歉
For your eyes do you understand me
For your eyes do you understand
不知道我有没有机会 乍一看 我就是个失败者
For your eyes do you understand me
沉迷于街头生意
For your eyes do you understand
For your eyes do you understand me
但是爸爸也有过梦想 我的双眼也曾闪烁微光
For your eyes do you understand
八岁的时候失去了童真
For your eyes only
我的爸爸因为**被枪杀 妈妈也深陷其中
It's several ways I could've went out too many to count
所以是奶奶在**横行的公租房养大了我
Was it the trigger happy crackers that the badges give clout
Was it the young blasting frustrated
鲜血浸染了水泥墙
Cause the cash running out
我敬爱的长辈 总是高人一等的姿态
Don't know how to act in a drought
普通的工作 来钱太慢
See baby girl I realized
My definition of a real was skewed
十三岁的时候开始家族生意
My views misshaped by new mixtapes
六年之后被判了刑
That confirmed the sh*t I learned in the streets was true
差不多与此同时 你来到了这个世界
That real don't speak when they beef with you
我和你妈妈就想
They just pull up on your street let the heat achoo
我们该给这个女孩起什么名字
And if a real hungry he gon' eat your food
I was a fool spent all my time ducking school ducking cops
我说就叫Nina 这是我能想到的最美的名字
Ducking rules hugging blocks that don't love you
I pray you find a with goals and point of views
给我最美丽的宝贝女儿 那时我才十九岁
Much broader than the corner if not it's gon' corner you
Into a box where your son don't even know his pops
我犯下两庄重罪才看清这是陷阱
And the cyclical nature of doing time continues
这扭曲的司法系统根本就是与我为敌
My worst fear is one day that you come home from school
现在恐怕已经来不及
And see your father face while hearing 'bout tragedy on news
我无法成为你的榜样
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
我过着奢靡的生活 但还不够奢靡
But maybe there's a chance that it's not
And this album remains locked
因为因果报应终究会降临在我头上
In a hard drive like valuable jewels
如果我的过去最后会让我失去生命
And I can teach you this in person
Like I'm teaching you to tie your own shoes
我希望你明白
I love you and I hope to God I don't lose you
For your eyes only
为了你 你明白吗
For your eyes for your eyes only
For your eyes for your eyes only
为了你 你能理解我吗
For your eyes do you understand
For your eyes only
为了你 你明白吗
One day your daddy called me told me he had a funny feeling
What he'd been dealing with lately he wasn't telling
为了你 你能理解我吗
I tried to pick his brains still he wasn't revealing
But I could feel the sense of panic in his voice
为了你 你明白吗
And it was chilling he said
Jermaine I knew you since we was children
为了你 你能理解我吗
I never asked for nothing when times was hard
I never had discussions with you begging you to help me
为了你 你明白吗
I dealt with the repercussions of my actions
I know you tried to steer me 'way from that sh*t
只是为了你
But that sh*t was in my blood you know my life
多少次我险些丧命 次数多得数不清
I know your mamma send my love
是死于那些戴着警徽 胡乱开枪的警察吗
In case I never get a chance to speak again
是死于那些身无分文
I won't forget the weekends spent sleeping at your crib
That's the way I wished my family lived
走投无路的街头混混吗
But my granny crib was in the 'jects
I had to interject like
不知道怎么度过没有钱的日子
What you talking 'bout f**k is you getting at
宝贝女儿 我明白
He said listen I got no time to dive into descriptions
对于真实的人这个概念 我的理解有偏差
But I've been having premonitions
我的三观被这些嘻哈音乐扭曲了
Just call it visions from the other side
I got a feeling I won't see tomorrow
这确认了一点 我从街头学到的东西都是真的
Like the time I'm living on is borrowed
如果真实的人跟你有过节 他们不会明说
With that said the only thing I'm proud to say I was a father
Write my story down and if I pass
他们直接来到你的地盘 让子弹替他们说话
Go play it for my daughter when she ready
And so I'm leaving you this record for your eyes only
如果真实的人饥渴了 他们会抢了你的食物
Don't you ever scratch or disrespect it
我是个傻瓜 不好好读书 与警察周旋
This perspective is a real one another lost 'ville son
不遵守规则 在残酷的街头卖命
I dedicate these words to you and all the other children
Affected by the mass incarceration in this nation
我希望你能找到一个有目标 能独立思考的男人
That sent your pops to prison when he needed education
彻底摆脱狭隘的思想 不要被生活所困
Sometimes I think that segregation would've done us better
Although I know that means that I would never
不要让你的孩子从小就没有爸爸
Be brought into this world cause my daddy was so thrilled
不要重蹈你我的覆辙
When he found him a white girl to take back to Jonesboro
With little Zach and Cole world barely one years old
我最大的恐惧是 有一天 你放学回家
Now it's thirty years later making sure this story's told
看到你父亲的脸出现在电视上 而新闻报道的是一出悲剧
Girl your daddy was a real not cause he was cold
Not because he was the first
我有一种特别不祥的预感 你爸爸很快就会丧命
To get some p**sy twelve years old
可悲的是 如果你现在听到这首歌 那不幸就真的发生了
Not because he used to come through
但是也有别的可能
In the Caddy on some vogues
这张专辑一直尘封
Not because he went from bagging up
尘封在硬盘里 就像珍贵的珠宝
Them grams to serving O's
Nah your daddy was a real not 'cause he was hard
然后我可以亲自教你这些事情
Not because he lived a life of crime and sat behind some bars
就像我教你系鞋带一样
Not because he screamed f**k the law
我爱你 我真的希望自己不要失去你
Although that was true
只是为了你
Your daddy was a real cause he loved you
为了你 只是为了你
For your eyes only
