Eminem - Mockingbird

[00:02.79] Yeah

[00:04.55] I know sometimes things may not

[00:07.55] Always make sense to you right now

[00:09.79] But hey

[00:11.79] What daddy always tell you?

[00:13.29] Straighten up little soldier

[00:15.79] Stiffen up that upper lip

[00:18.79] What you crying about?

[00:20.79] You got me

[00:22.04] Hailie I know you miss your mom and I know you miss your dad

[00:25.04] Well I'm gone but I'm trying to give you the life that I never had

[00:27.79] I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh

[00:31.06] I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you want to cry

[00:34.04] Cause you're scared, I ain't there?

[00:35.54] Daddy's with you in your prayers

[00:37.05] No more crying, wipe them tears

[00:38.30] Daddy's here, no more nightmares

[00:39.55] We gon' pull together through it, we gon' do it

[00:41.79] Laney uncle's crazy, ain't he?

[00:43.04] Yeah but he loves you girl and you better know it

[00:45.30] We're all we got in this world

[00:46.54] When it spins, when it swirls

[00:48.29] When it whirls, when it twirls

[00:49.79] Two little beautiful girls

[00:51.04] Lookin' puzzled, in a daze

[00:52.54] I know it's confusing you

[00:53.79] Daddy's always on the move, mama's always on the news

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

[00:59.05] The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me

[01:02.04] All the things growing up his 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

[01:07.33] We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me

[01:10.30] But things have gotten 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 were teenagers

[01:16.05] But then of course everything always happens for a reason

[01:19.56] I guess it was never meant to be

[01:21.55] But it's just something we have no control over and that's what destiny is

[01:24.79] But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep

[01:27.30] Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a dream

[01:30.29] Now hush little baby, don't you cry

[01:33.79] Everything's gonna be alright

[01:35.05] Stiffen that upper lip up little lady, I told ya

[01:38.29] 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

[01:44.53] We fear how we feel inside

[01:46.79] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[01:49.31] But I promise momma's gon' be alright

[01:52.57] It's funny

[01:53.54] I remember back one year when daddy had no money

[01:55.78] Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up

[01:58.04] And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were from me

[01:59.29] Cause daddy couldn't buy 'em

[02:01.54] I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying

[02:04.30] Cause daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job

[02:07.06] But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom

[02:09.79] And at the time every house that we lived in

[02:12.30] Either kept getting broken into and robbed

[02:14.29] Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving money for you in a jar

[02:18.31] Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college

[02:21.29] Almost had a thousand dollars till someone broke in and stole it

[02:24.03] And I know it hurt so bad it broke your momma's heart

[02:27.29] And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall apart

[02:30.05] Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma moved back

[02:32.81] On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom apartment

[02:35.56] And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara

[02:38.54] And that's when daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre

[02:41.79] And flew you and momma out to see me

[02:44.79] But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me

[02:46.79] Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V. and momma didn't like it

[02:49.28] And you and Laney were to young to understand it

[02:53.04] Papa was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit

[02:55.57] And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it

[02:58.30] I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand

[03:01.04] Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud

[03:04.05] Now I'm sitting in this empty house, just reminiscing

[03:06.56] Lookin' at your baby pictures, it just trips me out

[03:09.54] To see how much you both have grown, it's almost like you're sisters now

[03:12.54] Wow, guess you pretty much are and daddy's still here

[03:16.04] Laney I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here

[03:18.54] I like the sound of that, yeah

[03:19.30] It's got a ring to it don't it?

[03:20.30] Shh, momma's only gone for the moment

[03:24.04] Now hush little baby, don't you cry

[03:26.04] Everything's gonna be alright

[03:28.78] Stiffen that upper lip up little lady, I told ya

[03:31.54] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[03:34.55] I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why

[03:38.05] We fear how we feel inside

[03:40.29] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[03:43.29] But I promise momma's gon' be alright

[03:46.04] And if you ask me too Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird

[03:49.29] I'mma give you the world

[03:51.54] I'mma buy a diamond ring for you

[03:52.81] I'mma sing for you

[03:54.54] I'll do anything for you to see you smile

[03:57.31] And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine

[04:00.79] I'mma break that birdies neck

[04:02.54] I'll go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya

[04:05.54] And make him eat every carat don't fuck with dad (ha ha)