Mockingbird

[00:01.09] Yeah

[00:04.75] I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now

[00:08.61] But hey, what daddy always tell you?

[00:13.87] Straighten up little soldier

[00:16.63] Stiffen up that upper lip

[00:18.86] What you crying about?

[00:21.12] You got me

[00:22.52] Hailie, I know you miss your mom, and I know you miss your dad

[00:25.34] When I'm gone, but I'm trying to give you the life that I never had

[00:28.11] I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh

[00:31.17] I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you want to cry

[00:34.17] 'Cause you're scared, I ain't there, daddy's with you in your prayers

[00:36.98] No more crying, wipe them tears, daddy's here, no more nightmares

[00:39.44] We gon' pull together through it, we gon' do it

[00:42.50] Laney uncle's crazy, ain't he? Yeah, but he loves you girl and you better know it

[00:45.58] We're all we got in this world, when it spins, when it swirls

[00:48.14] When it whirls, when it twirls, two little beautiful girls

[00:51.23] Lookin' puzzled, in a daze, I know it's confusing you

[00:53.74] Daddy's always on the move, mamma's always on the news

[00:56.73] I try to keep you sheltered from it, but somehow it seems

[00:58.96] The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me

[01:02.27] All the things growing up, his daddy, daddy had to see

[01:04.82] Daddy don't want you to see, but you see just as much as he did

[01:07.84] We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me

[01:10.60] But things have gotten so bad between us, I don't see us ever being together

[01:13.88] Ever again like we used to be when we was teenagers

[01:16.68] But then of course everything always happens for a reason

[01:19.51] I guess it was never meant to be

[01:21.99] But it's just something we have no control, over and that's what destiny is

[01:24.75] But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep

[01:27.59] Maybe one day we'll wake up, and this will all just be a dream

[01:30.35] Now hush little baby, don't you cry

[01:33.72] Everything's gonna be alright

[01:35.39] Stiffen that upper-lip up, little lady, I told ya

[01:38.43] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[01:40.91] I know mommy's not here right now, and we don't know why

[01:44.51] We fear how we feel inside

[01:46.74] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[01:49.54] But I promise momma's gon' be alright

[01:52.31] Huh, it's funny

[01:53.42] I remember back one year when daddy had no money

[01:55.91] Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up and stuck 'em under the tree

[01:58.98] And said, "Some of 'em were from me, 'cause Daddy couldn't buy 'em"

[02:01.78] I'll never forget that Christmas, I sat up the whole night crying

[02:04.54] 'Cause daddy felt like a bum

[02:05.94] See daddy had a job

[02:07.35] But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom

[02:09.33] And at the time every house that we lived in

[02:12.68] Either kept getting broke into and robbed

[02:14.41] Or shot up on the block

[02:15.81] And your Mom was saving money for you in a jar

[02:18.09] Tryna start a piggy bank for you, so you could go to college

[02:21.21] Almost had a thousand dollars 'til someone broke in and stole it

[02:24.59] And I know it hurt so bad, it broke your momma's heart

[02:27.18] 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

[02:33.38] On the Chalmers in the flat one-bedroom apartment

[02:35.62] And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara

[02:38.70] And that's when daddy went to California with his C.D

[02:41.21] And met Dr. Dre, and flew you and momma out to see me

[02:44.34] But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me

[02:47.05] Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V

[02:49.55] And momma didn't like it, and you and Laney were to young to understand it

[02:52.96] Papa was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit

[02:55.72] And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it

[02:58.79] I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand

[03:01.53] 'Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud

[03:04.07] Now I'm sittin' in this empty house

[03:06.24] Just reminiscing, lookin' at your baby pictures

[03:08.66] It just trips me out

[03:10.06] To see how much you both have grown

[03:11.38] It's almost like you're sisters now

[03:12.73] Wow, guess you pretty much are, and daddy's still here

[03:15.77] Laney, I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here

[03:18.78] I like the sound of that, yeah, It's got a ring to it, don't it?

[03:21.73] Shh, momma's only gone for the moment

[03:23.93] Now hush little baby, don't you cry

[03:26.95] Everything's gonna be alright

[03:28.62] Stiffen that upper-lip up, little lady, I told ya

[03:31.87] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[03:34.41] I know mommy's not here right now, and we don't know why

[03:37.76] We fear how we feel inside

[03:40.00] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[03:42.75] But I promise, momma's gon' be alright

[03:46.04] And if you ask me too

[03:46.87] Daddy's gonna buy you a Mockingbird

[03:49.41] I'ma give you the world

[03:51.56] I'ma buy a diamond ring for you, I'ma sing for you

[03:54.26] 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

[04:00.89] I'ma break that birdies neck

[04:02.82] I'd go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya

[04:05.89] And make him eat every karat, don't fuck with dad (haha)