I know things may not Always sense to you right now But hey, What daddy tell you? Straighten up little Stiffen up that lip What you about? You got me
Hailie I know you miss your mom and I know you miss dad Well I'm gone but I'm trying to 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 your eyes, inside you want to cry Cause you're scared, I ain't with you in your prayers No more crying, wipe them here, no more nightmares We gon' pull through it, we gon' do it Laney uncles crazy, 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, it twirls 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 from it but somehow it seems The that 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 way, your mother and me But things gotten so bad between us I don't see us being together ever again Like we used to be we were teenagers But then of course everything 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, your head and go to sleep Maybe one day we'll up and this will all just be a dream
Now hush baby, don't you cry gonna be alright Stiffen upper lip up little lady, I told ya here to hold ya through the night I know mommy's not here now and we don't know why We how we feel inside It may seem a little crazy, baby But I promise momma's gon' be
funny I remember one year when daddy had no money wrapped the Christmas presents up And stuck 'em under the tree and said of 'em were from me Cause couldn't buy 'em I'll never forget Christmas I sat up the whole night 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 getting broken into and robbed Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving for you in a jar start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college Almost had a dollars till someone broke in and stole it And I know it hurt so bad it broke momma's heart And it seemed like was just startin' to fall apart Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma back On the Chalmers in the flat one apartment And dad moved back to the other 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 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 happened too fast for either one of us to it I'm just sorry you there and had to witness it first hand Cause all I ever wanted to do was just you proud Now I'm sitting in this empty house, reminiscing Lookin' at baby pictures, it just trips me out To see how much you both have grown, it's like you're sisters now Wow, guess you pretty much are and still here Laney I'm to you too, daddy's still here I like the sound of that, 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 buy a diamond ring for you I'mma for you do anything for you to see you smile And if that don't sing and that ring don't shine I'mma break that birdies go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya And make him eat every carat don't with dad (ha ha)