Mockingbird

[00:10.39] Yeah

[00:12.15] I know sometimes things may not

[00:15.15] Always make sense to you right now

[00:17.39] But hey

[00:19.39] What daddy always tell you?

[00:20.89] Straighten up little soldier

[00:23.39] Stiffen up that upper lip

[00:26.39] What you crying about?

[00:28.39] You got me

[00:29.64] Hailie I know you miss your mom and I know you miss your dad

[00:32.64] Well I'm gone but I'm trying to give you the life that I never had

[00:35.39] I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh

[00:38.66] I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you want to cry

[00:41.64] Cause you're scared, I ain't there?

[00:43.14] Daddy's with you in your prayers

[00:44.65] No more crying, wipe them tears

[00:45.90] Daddy's here, no more nightmares

[00:47.15] We gon' pull together through it, we gon' do it

[00:49.39] Laney uncle's crazy, ain't he?

[00:50.64] Yeah but he loves you girl and you better know it

[00:52.90] We're all we got in this world

[00:54.14] When it spins, when it swirls

[00:55.89] When it whirls, when it twirls

[00:57.39] Two little beautiful girls

[00:58.64] Lookin' puzzled, in a daze

[01:00.14] I know it's confusing you

[01:01.39] Daddy's always on the move, mama's always on the news

[01:04.15] I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it seems

[01:06.65] The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me

[01:09.64] All the things growing up his daddy that he had to see

[01:12.39] Daddy don't want you to see but you see just as much as he did

[01:14.93] We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me

[01:17.90] But things have gotten so bad between us

[01:19.39] I don't see us ever being together ever again

[01:22.15] Like we used to be when we were teenagers

[01:23.65] But then of course everything always happens for a reason

[01:27.16] I guess it was never meant to be

[01:29.15] But it's just something we have no control over and that's what destiny is

[01:32.39] But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep

[01:34.90] Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a dream

[01:37.89] Now hush little baby, don't you cry

[01:41.39] Everything's gonna be alright

[01:42.65] Stiffen that upper lip up little lady, I told ya

[01:45.89] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[01:48.65] I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why

[01:52.13] We fear how we feel inside

[01:54.39] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[01:56.91] But I promise momma's gon' be alright

[02:00.17] It's funny

[02:01.14] I remember back one year when daddy had no money

[02:03.38] Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up

[02:05.64] And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were from me

[02:06.89] Cause daddy couldn't buy 'em

[02:09.14] I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying

[02:11.90] Cause daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job

[02:14.66] But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom

[02:17.39] And at the time every house that we lived in

[02:19.90] Either kept getting broken into and robbed

[02:21.89] Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving money for you in a jar

[02:25.91] Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college

[02:28.89] Almost had a thousand dollars till someone broke in and stole it

[02:31.63] And I know it hurt so bad it broke your momma's heart

[02:34.89] And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall apart

[02:37.65] Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma moved back

[02:40.41] On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom apartment

[02:43.16] And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara

[02:46.14] And that's when daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre

[02:49.39] And flew you and momma out to see me

[02:52.39] But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me

[02:54.39] Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V. and momma didn't like it

[02:56.88] And you and Laney were to young to understand it

[03:00.64] Papa was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit

[03:03.17] And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it

[03:05.90] I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand

[03:08.64] Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud

[03:11.65] Now I'm sitting in this empty house, just reminiscing

[03:14.16] Lookin' at your baby pictures, it just trips me out

[03:17.14] To see how much you both have grown, it's almost like you're sisters now

[03:20.14] Wow, guess you pretty much are and daddy's still here

[03:23.64] Laney I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here

[03:26.14] I like the sound of that, yeah

[03:26.90] It's got a ring to it don't it?

[03:27.90] Shh, momma's only gone for the moment

[03:31.64] Now hush little baby, don't you cry

[03:33.64] Everything's gonna be alright

[03:36.38] Stiffen that upper lip up little lady, I told ya

[03:39.14] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[03:42.15] I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why

[03:45.65] We fear how we feel inside

[03:47.89] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[03:50.89] But I promise momma's gon' be alright

[03:53.64] And if you ask me too Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird

[03:56.89] I'mma give you the world

[03:59.14] I'mma buy a diamond ring for you

[04:00.41] I'mma sing for you

[04:02.14] I'll do anything for you to see you smile

[04:04.91] And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine

[04:08.39] I'mma break that birdies neck

[04:10.14] I'll go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya

[04:13.14] And make him eat every carat don't fuck with dad (ha ha)