I know sometimes may not Always make sense to you now But hey, What daddy always tell Straighten up soldier up that upper lip What you about? 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 you're sad, when you smile, even when you laugh I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you to cry Cause scared, I ain't there? Daddy's you in your prayers No crying, wipe them tears Daddy's here, no nightmares We gon' pull together through it, we do it Laney crazy, ain't 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, when it Two little 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 it backfires on me All the growing up his daddy that 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 have so bad between us I don't see us ever together ever again Like we used to be when we teenagers But then of course everything always happens for a I it was never meant to be But it's just something we have no over and that's what destiny is But no more worries, rest head and go to sleep Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all be a dream
Now little baby, don't you cry Everything's gonna be that upper lip up little lady, I told ya Daddy's here to hold ya the night I know mommy's not here right now and we know why We how we feel inside It may seem a crazy, pretty baby But I promise gon' be alright
funny I remember back one year when had no money wrapped the Christmas presents up And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em from me Cause couldn't buy 'em I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night Cause daddy like a bum, see daddy had a job But his job was to keep the on the table for you and mom And at the time every house we lived in Either getting broken into and robbed Or shot up on the block and 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 it hurt so bad it broke your momma's heart And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall Mom and dad was a lot so momma moved back On the Chalmers in the one bedroom apartment And dad moved to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara And when daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre And flew you and out to see me But daddy had to work, you and had to leave me Then you started daddy on the T.V. and momma didn't like it And you and Laney to young to understand it Papa was a rollin' stone, momma 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 hand Cause all I ever wanted to do was make you proud Now I'm sitting in this empty house, just Lookin' at baby pictures, it just trips me out To see how much you both have grown, almost like you're sisters now Wow, guess you pretty much are and still here Laney I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's here I like the sound of that, 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 give you the world I'mma buy a diamond for you I'mma for you I'll do for you to see you smile And if that mockingbird sing and that ring don't shine I'mma break that birdies I'll go back to the jeweler who it to ya And make him eat every don't fuck with dad (ha ha)