I sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now But hey, what daddy tell you? Straighten up little Stiffen up upper lip you crying about? You got me
Hailie I you miss 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, even you laugh I can see it in eyes, deep inside you want to cry Cause you're scared, I there? Daddy's you in your prayers No more crying, them tears Daddy's here, no nightmares We gon' pull together it, we gon' do it Laney crazy, ain't he? Yeah but he loves you girl and you know it We're all we got in world When it spins, when it When it whirls, it twirls Two little girls puzzled, in a daze I it's confusing 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 don't you to see but you see just as much as he did We did not plan it to be this way, mother and me But things gotten so bad between us I don't see us ever being ever again Like we to be when we were teenagers But then of course everything always happens for a I it was never meant to be But it's something we have no control over and that's what destiny is But no more worries, rest your head and go to one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a dream
Now hush baby, don't you cry Everything's gonna be Stiffen that upper lip up little lady, I ya Daddy's here to hold ya the night I mommy's not here right now and we don't know why We how we feel inside It may seem a little crazy, pretty But I promise momma's gon' be
funny I remember back one year when daddy had no wrapped the Christmas presents up And stuck 'em under the and said some of 'em were from me Cause daddy buy 'em I'll never forget Christmas I sat up the whole night crying daddy felt like a bum, see daddy 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 your mom was money for you in a jar Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you go to college Almost had a dollars til someone broke in and stole 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 to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara And that's daddy went 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 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 sorry you were there and had to witness it hand Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you Now I'm sitting in this house, just reminiscing Lookin' at baby pictures, it just trips me out To see how you both have grown, it's almost like you're sisters now Wow, guess you pretty are and daddy's still here Laney I'm to you too, daddy's still here I the sound 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 Daddy's buy you a mockingbird I'mma give you the 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 that don't shine I'mma that birdies neck go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya And make him eat every carat don't fuck dad (haha)