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