I know sometimes may not Always make sense to you now But hey, What always tell you? up little soldier Stiffen up that lip What you crying You got me
Hailie I know you miss your mom and I know you your dad Well I'm gone but I'm trying to give you the life I never had I can see sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you to cry you're scared, I ain't there? Daddy's with you in prayers No more crying, wipe tears Daddy's here, no more We gon' together through it, we gon' do it Laney crazy, ain't he? Yeah but he loves you and you better know it all we got in this world When it spins, it swirls it whirls, when it twirls Two little beautiful puzzled, in a daze I know it's you Daddy's always on the move, always on the news I try to keep you from it but somehow it seems The harder I try to do that, the more it backfires on me All the things up his daddy that he had to see Daddy don't 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 have gotten so bad us I don't see us ever being ever again Like we to be when we were teenagers But of course everything always happens for a reason I guess it was never to be But it's something we have no control over and that's what destiny is But no more worries, rest your and go to sleep Maybe one day we'll wake up and this all just be a dream
Now hush baby, don't you cry Everything's gonna be Stiffen that upper lip up lady, I told ya Daddy's here to hold ya through the I know mommy's not here right now and we know why We fear how we inside It may seem a little crazy, pretty But I promise gon' be alright
It's I remember back one year when had no money Mommy the Christmas presents up And stuck 'em under the tree and some of 'em were from me Cause 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 every house we lived in Either kept broken into and robbed Or shot up on the and your mom was saving money for you in a jar Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to Almost had a thousand dollars till broke in and stole it And I know it hurt so bad it broke your momma's And it seemed like was just startin' to fall apart Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so moved back On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom And dad moved back to the other of 8 Mile on Novara And that's when went to California 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 on the T.V. and momma didn't like it And you and Laney were to to understand it was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit And it all happened too fast for one of us to grab it I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first Cause all I ever wanted to do was just 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 have grown, it's almost like you're sisters now Wow, guess you much are and daddy's still here I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here I like the of that, yeah It's got a to it don't it? Shh, momma's gone for the moment
And if you ask me too gonna buy you a mockingbird give you the world I'mma buy a ring for you sing for you I'll do for you to see you smile And if that mockingbird don't sing and ring don't shine I'mma break that birdies I'll go back to the who sold it to ya And make him eat carat don't fuck with dad (ha ha)