Mockingbird

[00:00.63] Yeah

[00:03.89] I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now

[00:09.14] But hey, what daddy always tell you?

[00:13.14] Straighten up little soldier

[00:15.40] Stiffen up that upper lip

[00:17.65] What you crying about?

[00:20.16] You got me.

[00:21.66] Hailie, I know you miss your mom, and I know you miss your dad

[00:24.92] When I'm gone but I'm trying to give you the life that I never had

[00:27.67] I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh

[00:30.93] I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you want to cry

[00:33.68] 'Cause you're scared, I ain't there?

[00:35.18] Daddy's with you in your prayers

[00:36.69] No more crying, wipe them tears

[00:38.19] Daddy's here, no more nightmares

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

[00:41.44] Lainie Uncle's crazy, ain't he?

[00:42.94] Yeah, but he loves you girl and you better know it

[00:44.95] We're all we got in this world

[00:46.45] When it spins, when it swirls

[00:47.96] When it whirls, when it twirls

[00:49.20] Two little beautiful girls

[00:50.71] Lookin' puzzled, in a daze

[00:52.21] I know it's confusing you

[00:53.47] Daddy's always on the move, mamma's always on the news

[00:56.47] I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it seems

[00:58.73] The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me

[01:01.72] All the things growing up as daddy, that he had to see

[01:04.49] Daddy don't want you to see but you see just as much as he did

[01:07.48] We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me

[01:10.24] But things have got so bad between us

[01:11.75] I don't see us ever being together ever again

[01:14.50] Like we used to be when we was teenagers

[01:16.50] But then of course everything always happens for a reason

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

[01:21.26] But it's just something we have no control over and that's what destiny is

[01:24.77] But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep

[01:27.27] Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a dream

[01:30.03] Now hush little baby, don't you cry

[01:33.04] Everything's gonna be alright

[01:35.04] Stiffen that upper lip up, little lady, I told ya

[01:38.29] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[01:40.79] I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why

[01:44.30] We fear how we feel inside

[01:46.55] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

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

[01:52.06] (Ha)

[01:53.07] It's funny

[01:53.18] I remember back one year when daddy had no money

[01:55.68] Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up

[01:57.19] And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were from me

[01:59.94] 'Cause daddy couldn't buy 'em

[02:01.47] I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying

[02:04.22] 'Cause daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job

[02:06.97] But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom

[02:09.73] And at the time every house that we lived in

[02:12.23] Either kept getting broken into and robbed

[02:14.24] Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving money for you in a jar

[02:18.24] Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college

[02:21.25] Almost had a thousand dollars 'til someone broke in and stole it

[02:24.51] And I know it hurts so bad it broke your mamma's heart

[02:27.02] And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall apart

[02:29.77] Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma moved back

[02:32.78] On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom apartment

[02:35.53] And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara

[02:38.29] And that's when daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre

[02:42.04] And flew you and momma out to see me

[02:44.05] But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me

[02:46.81] Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V. and momma didn't like it

[02:50.56] And you and Lainnie were too young to understand it

[02:52.81] Papa was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit

[02:55.82] And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it

[02:58.57] I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand

[03:01.07] 'Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud

[03:04.08] Now I'm sitting in this empty house, just reminiscing

[03:06.83] Lookin' at your baby pictures, it just trips me out

[03:09.34] To see how much you both have grown, it's almost like you're sisters now

[03:12.60] Wow, I guess you pretty much are and daddy's still here

[03:15.61] Lainnie I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here

[03:18.62] I like the sound of that, yeah

[03:20.11] It's got a ring to it don't it?

[03:21.62] Shh, mama's only gone for the moment

[03:23.62] Now hush little baby, don't you cry

[03:26.38] Everything's gonna be alright

[03:28.38] Stiffen that upper lip up, little lady, I told ya

[03:31.64] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[03:34.14] I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why

[03:37.65] We fear how we feel inside

[03:39.90] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[03:42.65] But I promise mama's gon' be alright

[03:45.67] And if you ask me to

[03:46.92] Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird

[03:49.42] I'mma give you the world

[03:51.43] I'mma buy a diamond ring for you

[03:52.92] I'mma sing for you

[03:54.18] I'll do anything for you to see you smile

[03:56.93] And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine

[04:00.44] I'mma break that birdie's neck

[04:02.44] I'll go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya

[04:05.45] And make him eat every carat don't fuck with dad (ha ha)