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