I know things may not Always make sense to you now But hey, What daddy tell you? Straighten up little Stiffen up upper lip you crying about? You got me
Hailie I know you your mom and I know you miss your dad Well I'm gone but I'm to give you the life that I never had I can see you're sad, even when you smile, when you laugh I can see it in eyes, deep inside you want to cry Cause you're scared, I there? Daddy's with you in your No more crying, wipe tears here, no more nightmares We gon' pull through it, we gon' do it Laney crazy, ain't he? Yeah but he loves you and you better know it We're all we got in world When it spins, it swirls When it whirls, it twirls Two little girls puzzled, in a daze I it's confusing 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 Daddy want you to see but you see just as much as he did We did not it to be this way, your mother and me But things gotten so bad between us I see us ever being together ever again Like we used to be we were teenagers But then of everything always happens for a reason I guess it was meant to be But it's just something we have no control over and that's destiny is But no more worries, rest your and go to sleep Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a
Now hush baby, don't you cry Everything's gonna be Stiffen upper lip up little lady, I told ya Daddy's to hold ya through the night I know mommy's not right now and we don't know why We how we feel inside It may a little crazy, pretty baby But I momma's gon' be alright
funny I remember one year when daddy had no money wrapped the Christmas presents up And stuck 'em under the and said some of 'em were from me daddy couldn't buy 'em I'll never forget that I sat up the whole night crying Cause felt 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 broken into and robbed Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving for you in a jar Tryna start a piggy for you so you could go to college Almost had a thousand dollars till someone broke in and it And I know it hurt so bad it broke momma's heart And it like everything was just startin' to fall apart Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma back On the Chalmers in the one bedroom apartment And dad moved back to the other of 8 Mile on Novara And that's when daddy went to with his CD and met Dr. Dre And you and momma 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 like it And you and Laney to young to understand it Papa was a stone, momma developed a habit And it all too fast for either one of us to grab it I'm just you were there and had to witness it first hand Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you Now I'm sitting in empty house, just reminiscing at your baby pictures, it just trips me out To see how much you have grown, it's almost like you're sisters now Wow, guess you pretty much are and still here Laney I'm talkin' to you too, still here I the sound of that, yeah got a ring to it don't it? Shh, momma's only gone for the
And if you ask me too Daddy's gonna buy you a I'mma give you the I'mma buy a ring for you sing for you I'll do anything for you to see you And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring shine I'mma break birdies neck I'll go back to the jeweler who it to ya And make him eat every don't fuck with dad (ha ha)