Mockingbird

[00:04.95] I know sometimes, things may not always make sense to you right now

[00:10.53] But hey, what'd

[00:12.66] Daddy always tell you?

[00:14.52] Straighten up little soldier

[00:16.63] stiffen up that upper lip

[00:19.56] What you cryin' about?

[00:21.42] You got me

[00:22.75] Hailie I know you miss your mom and I know you miss your dad

[00:25.67] When I'm gone but I'm tryin to give you the life that I never had

[00:28.07] I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh

[00:31.53] I can see it in your eyes, deep

[00:33.64] inside you wanna cry

[00:35.23] Cause you're scared, I ain't there, Daddy's with you in your prayers

[00:37.09] No more cryin, wipe them tears, Daddy's here no more nightmares

[00:39.48] We gon' pull together through

[00:41.34] it, we gon' do it

[00:42.67] Lainie, Uncle's crazy, ain't he? yeah but he loves you girl and

[00:44.53] you better know it

[00:46.65] We're all we got in this world

[00:47.72] when it spins, when it swirls

[00:48.52] When it whirls, when it twirls

[00:49.05] two little beautiful girls

[00:49.85] Lookin puzzled, in a daze

[00:51.21] I know it's confusin you

[00:52.55] Daddy's always on the move Momma's always on the news

[00:56.80] I try to keep you sheltered from i

[00:58.65] but somehow it seems

[00:59.45] The harder that I try to do that

[01:00.25] the more it backfires on me

[01:01.58] All the things growin up as

[01:02.91] Daddy that he had to see

[01:03.97] Daddy don't want

[01:05.03] you to see but you

[01:06.36] see just as much as he did

[01:07.68] We did not plan it to be this way

[01:08.75] your mother and me

[01:09.81] But things have got so bad between us, I don't see us ever being

[01:13.28] Together ever again, like we used to be when we was teenagers

[01:15.67] But then of course everything always happens for a reason

[01:19.92] I guess it was never meant to be

[01:23.37] But it's just somethin we have no control over and that's

[01:24.44] what destiny is

[01:25.76] But no more worries

[01:27.37] rest your head and go to sleep

[01:28.42] Maybe one day we'll wake up and this'll all just be a dream

[01:31.08] Now hush little baby, don't you cry

[01:32.14] Everything's gonna be alright

[01:35.32] Stiffen that upper lip up

[01:37.46] little lady, I told ya

[01:38.77] Daddy's here to hold

[01:41.17] ya through the night

[01:41.97] I know Mommy's not

[01:43.03] here right now and

[01:44.09] we don't know why

[01:45.15] We fear how we feel inside

[01:47.01] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[01:49.14] But I promise, Momma's gon' be

[01:52.32] Heh, it's funny

[01:53.67] I remember back one year

[01:54.76] when daddy had no money

[01:56.07] Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up and stuck 'em

[01:57.14] under the tree

[01:59.01] And said some of 'em were from me, cause daddy couldn't buy 'em

[02:01.65] I'll never forget that Christmas

[02:03.78] I sat up the whole night cryin'

[02:04.84] Cause daddy felt like a bum

[02:06.97] see daddy had a job

[02:08.03] But his job was to keep the food

[02:09.63] on the table for you and mom

[02:10.68] And at the time, every house

[02:12.82] that we lived in

[02:13.60] Either kept gettin broken into and robbed or shot up on the block

[02:14.93] And your mom, was savin

[02:17.60] money for you in a jar

[02:18.38] Tryin to start a piggy bank for

[02:19.71] you so you could go to college

[02:21.85] Almost had a thousand dollars

[02:23.70] til someone broke in and stole it

[02:24.77] And I know it hurt so bad it

[02:26.64] broke your momma's heart

[02:27.70] And it seemed like everything

[02:29.31] was just startin to fall apart

[02:30.37] Mom and Dad was arguin a lot

[02:32.50] so momma moved back

[02:33.83] On the Chalmers in the flat

[02:34.90] one bedroom apartment

[02:36.21] And dad moved back to the

[02:37.28] other side of 8 Mile on Novara

[02:38.09] And that's when daddy went

[02:39.68] to California with his CD

[02:41.26] And met Dr. Dre, and flew you

[02:43.39] and Momma out to see me

[02:44.72] But Daddy had to work, you

[02:46.33] and Momma had to leave me

[02:47.65] Then you started seeing

[02:48.71] Daddy on the TV

[02:49.79] And Momma didn't like it, and you and Lainey were too young

[02:51.90] to understand it

[02:53.23] Papa was a rollin stone

[02:54.29] momma developed a habit

[02:55.62] And it all happened too

[02:57.23] fast for either one of us to grab it

[02:58.27] I'm just sorry you were there

[03:00.67] and had to witness it first hand

[03:01.74] Cause all I ever wanted to do

[03:03.32] was just make you proud

[03:04.39] Now I'm sittin' in this empty

[03:05.72] house, just reminiscing

[03:08.11] Looking at your baby pictures

[03:08.91] it just trips me out

[03:09.97] To see how much you both have grown, it's almost like

[03:12.36] you're sisters now

[03:13.95] Wow, guess you pretty much

[03:15.55] are, and Daddy's still here

[03:16.60] Lainie I'm talking to you too

[03:18.20] Daddy's still here

[03:19.79] I like the sound of that, yeah

[03:21.92] it's got a ring to it don't it?

[03:22.98] Sssshhh, Momma's o...