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Yeah |
I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now |
But hey, what daddy always tell you? |
Straighten up little soldier |
Stiffen up that upper lip |
What you crying about? |
You got me |
Hailie, I know you miss your mom, and I know you miss your dad |
When I'm gone, but I'm trying to give you the life that I never had |
I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh |
I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you want to cry |
'Cause you're scared, I ain't there, daddy's with you in your prayers |
No more crying, wipe them tears, daddy's here, no more nightmares |
We gon' pull together through it, we gon' do it |
Laney uncle's crazy, ain't he? Yeah, but he loves you girl and you better know it |
We're all we got in this world, when it spins, when it swirls |
When it whirls, when it twirls, two little beautiful girls |
Lookin' puzzled, in a daze, I know it's confusing you |
Daddy's always on the move, mamma's always on the news |
I try to keep you sheltered from it, but somehow it seems |
The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me |
All the things growing up, his daddy, daddy had to see |
Daddy don't want you to see, but you see just as much as he did |
We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me |
But things have gotten so bad between us, I don't see us ever being together |
Ever again like we used to be when we was teenagers |
But then of course everything always happens for a reason |
I guess it was never meant to be |
But it's just something we have no control, over and that's what destiny is |
But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep |
Maybe one day we'll wake up, and this will all just be a dream |
Now hush little baby, don't you cry |
Everything's gonna be alright |
Stiffen that upper-lip up, little lady, I told ya |
Daddy's here to hold ya through the night |
I know mommy's not here right now, and we don't know why |
We fear how we feel inside |
It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby |
But I promise momma's gon' be alright |
Huh, it's funny |
I remember back one year when daddy had no money |
Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up and stuck 'em under the tree |
And said, "Some of 'em were from me, 'cause Daddy couldn't buy 'em" |
I'll never forget that Christmas, I sat up the whole night crying |
'Cause daddy felt like a bum |
See daddy had a job |
But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom |
And at the time every house that we lived in |
Either kept getting broke into and robbed |
Or shot up on the block |
And your Mom was saving money for you in a jar |
Tryna start a piggy bank for you, so you could go to college |
Almost had a thousand dollars 'til someone broke in and stole it |
And I know it hurt so bad, it broke your momma's heart |
And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall apart |
Mom and dad was arguin' a lot, so momma moved back |
On the Chalmers in the flat one-bedroom apartment |
And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara |
And that's when daddy went to California with his C.D |
And met Dr. Dre, and flew you and momma out to see me |
But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me |
Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V |
And momma didn't like it, and you and Laney were to young to understand it |
Papa was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit |
And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it |
I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand |
'Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud |
Now I'm sittin' in this empty house |
Just reminiscing, lookin' at your baby pictures |
It just trips me out |
To see how much you both have grown |
It's almost like you're sisters now |
Wow, guess you pretty much are, and daddy's still here |
Laney, I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here |
I like the sound of that, yeah, It's got a ring to it, don't it? |
Shh, momma's only gone for the moment |
Now hush little baby, don't you cry |
Everything's gonna be alright |
Stiffen that upper-lip up, little lady, I told ya |
Daddy's here to hold ya through the night |
I know mommy's not here right now, and we don't know why |
We fear how we feel inside |
It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby |
But I promise, momma's gon' be alright |
And if you ask me too |
Daddy's gonna buy you a Mockingbird |
I'ma give you the world |
I'ma buy a diamond ring for you, I'ma sing for you |
I'll do anything for you to see you smile |
And if that Mockingbird don't sing, and that ring don't shine |
I'ma break that birdies neck |
I'd go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya |
And make him eat every karat, don't fuck with dad (haha) |