I sometimes things may not make sense to you right now But hey, What always 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 trying to give you the life that I had I can see you're sad, even you smile, even when you laugh I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you to cry Cause scared, I ain't there? with you in your prayers No more crying, them tears Daddy's here, no nightmares We gon' pull together through it, we do it Laney crazy, ain't he? Yeah but he you girl 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 Lookin' puzzled, in a I know it's you Daddy's on the move, mama's always on the news I try to keep you sheltered 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 plan it to be this way, mother and me But things gotten so bad between us I don't see us ever together ever again Like we used to be we were teenagers But then of course everything always 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 Everything's gonna be Stiffen that upper lip up little lady, I ya Daddy's here to hold ya through the I know mommy's not here now and we don't know why We fear how we feel It may seem a crazy, pretty baby But I momma's gon' be alright
It's I back one year when daddy had no money Mommy the Christmas presents up And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were me daddy couldn't buy 'em I'll never that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying daddy 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 every house that we in Either kept broken into and robbed Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving for you in a jar Tryna a piggy bank for you so you could go to college Almost had a thousand till someone broke in and stole it And I it hurt so bad it broke your momma's heart And it seemed like everything was just 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 side 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 daddy had to work, you and had to leave me Then you seeing daddy on the T.V. and momma didn't like it And you and Laney were to to understand it Papa was a rollin' stone, developed a habit And it all happened too for either one of us to grab it I'm just sorry you were there and had to it first hand all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud Now I'm sitting in this empty house, reminiscing Lookin' at your baby pictures, it trips me out To see how much you both have grown, it's like you're sisters now Wow, you pretty much are and daddy's still here I'm talkin' 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 you the world buy a diamond ring for you I'mma for you do anything for you to see you smile And if that mockingbird don't and that ring don't shine break that birdies neck I'll go to the jeweler who sold it to ya And make him eat every carat don't fuck dad (ha ha)