Mockingbird - Eminem

[00:02.65] Yeah

[00:04.65] I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now

[00:10.15] But hey, what daddy always tell you?

[00:13.90] Straighten up little soldier

[00:15.90] Stiffen up that upper lip

[00:18.41] What you crying about?

[00:20.66] You got me.

[00:22.15] Hailie, I know you miss your mom, and I know you miss your dad

[00:24.91] When I'm gone but I'm trying to give you the life that I never had

[00:27.90] I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh

[00:30.90] I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you want to cry

[00:33.90] 'Cause you're scared, I ain't there?

[00:35.16] Daddy's with you in your prayers

[00:36.90] No more crying, wipe them tears

[00:38.15] Daddy's here, no more nightmares

[00:39.65] We gon' pull together through it, we gon' do it

[00:41.65] Lainie Uncle's crazy, ain't he?

[00:43.40] Yeah, but he loves you girl and you better know it

[00:45.15] We're all we got in this world

[00:46.55] When it spins, when it swirls

[00:48.05] When it whirls, when it twirls

[00:49.29] Two little beautiful girls

[00:50.80] Lookin' puzzled, in a daze

[00:52.30] I know it's confusing you

[00:53.55] Daddy's always on the move, mamma's always on the news

[00:56.55] I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it seems

[00:59.04] The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me

[01:01.80] All the things growing up as daddy, that he had to see

[01:04.79] Daddy don't want you to see but you see just as much as he did

[01:07.80] We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me

[01:10.29] But things have got so bad between us

[01:11.79] I don't see us ever being together ever again

[01:14.55] Like we used to be when we was teenagers

[01:16.55] But then of course everything always happens for a reason

[01:19.55] I guess it was never meant to be

[01:21.30] But it's just something we have no control over and that's what destiny is

[01:24.80] But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep

[01:27.55] Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a dream

[01:30.30] Now hush little baby, don't you cry

[01:33.05] Everything's gonna be alright

[01:35.30] Stiffen that upper lip up, little lady, I told ya

[01:38.30] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[01:41.05] I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why

[01:44.54] We fear how we feel inside

[01:46.80] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[01:49.29] But I promise mama's gon' be alright

[01:52.30] (Ha)

[01:52.54] It's funny

[01:53.30] I remember back one year when daddy had no money

[01:55.79] Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up

[01:57.55] And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were from me

[02:00.19] 'Cause daddy couldn't buy 'em

[02:01.69] I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying

[02:04.44] 'Cause daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job

[02:07.19] But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom

[02:09.94] And at the time every house that we lived in

[02:12.44] Either kept getting broken into and robbed

[02:14.44] Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving money for you in a jar

[02:18.44] Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college

[02:21.44] Almost had a thousand dollars 'til someone broke in and stole it

[02:24.44] And I know it hurts so bad it broke your mamma's heart

[02:27.18] And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall apart

[02:29.69] Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma moved back

[02:33.19] On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom apartment

[02:35.69] And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara

[02:38.69] And that's when daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre

[02:42.19] And flew you and momma out to see me

[02:44.19] But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me

[02:46.94] Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V. and momma didn't like it

[02:50.70] And you and Lainnie were too young to understand it

[02:52.93] Papa was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit

[02:55.94] And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it

[02:58.69] I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand

[03:01.44] 'Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud

[03:03.94] Now I'm sitting in this empty house, just reminiscing

[03:06.94] Lookin' at your baby pictures, it just trips me out

[03:09.44] To see how much you both have grown, it's almost like you're sisters now

[03:12.44] Wow, I guess you pretty much are and daddy's still here

[03:15.93] Lainnie I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here

[03:18.94] I like the sound of that, yeah

[03:20.59] It's got a ring to it don't it?

[03:21.84] Shh, mama's only gone for the moment

[03:23.84] Now hush little baby, don't you cry

[03:26.59] Everything's gonna be alright

[03:28.84] Stiffen that upper lip up, little lady, I told ya

[03:31.84] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[03:34.59] I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why

[03:37.84] We fear how we feel inside

[03:40.09] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[03:42.83] But I promise mama's gon' be alright

[03:45.84] And if you ask me to

[03:46.84] Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird

[03:49.33] I'mma give you the world

[03:51.58] I'mma buy a diamond ring for you

[03:53.08] I'mma sing for you

[03:54.34] I'll do anything for you to see you smile

[03:57.59] And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine

[04:00.58] I'mma break that birdie's neck

[04:02.84] I'll go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya

[04:05.59] And make him eat every carat don't fuck with dad (ha ha)