Mockingbird

[00:02.89] Yeah

[00:04.65] I know sometimes things may not

[00:07.65] Always make sense to you right now

[00:09.89] But hey

[00:11.89] What daddy always tell you?

[00:13.39] Straighten up little soldier

[00:15.89] Stiffen up that upper lip

[00:18.89] What you crying about?

[00:20.89] You got me

[00:22.14] Hailie I know you miss your mom and I know you miss your dad

[00:25.14] Well I'm gone but I'm trying to give you the life that I never had

[00:27.89] I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh

[00:31.16] I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you want to cry

[00:34.14] Cause you're scared, I ain't there?

[00:35.64] Daddy's with you in your prayers

[00:37.15] No more crying, wipe them tears

[00:38.40] Daddy's here, no more nightmares

[00:39.65] We gon' pull together through it, we gon' do it

[00:41.89] Laney uncle's crazy, ain't he?

[00:43.14] Yeah but he loves you girl and you better know it

[00:45.40] We're all we got in this world

[00:46.64] When it spins, when it swirls

[00:48.39] When it whirls, when it twirls

[00:49.89] Two little beautiful girls

[00:51.14] Lookin' puzzled, in a daze

[00:52.64] I know it's confusing you

[00:53.89] Daddy's always on the move, mama's always on the news

[00:56.65] I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it seems

[00:59.15] The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me

[01:02.14] All the things growing up his daddy that he had to see

[01:04.89] Daddy don't want you to see but you see just as much as he did

[01:07.43] We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me

[01:10.40] But things have gotten so bad between us

[01:11.89] I don't see us ever being together ever again

[01:14.65] Like we used to be when we were teenagers

[01:16.15] But then of course everything always happens for a reason

[01:19.66] I guess it was never meant to be

[01:21.65] But it's just something we have no control over and that's what destiny is

[01:24.89] But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep

[01:27.40] Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a dream

[01:30.39] Now hush little baby, don't you cry

[01:33.89] Everything's gonna be alright

[01:35.15] Stiffen that upper lip up little lady, I told ya

[01:38.39] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[01:41.15] I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why

[01:44.63] We fear how we feel inside

[01:46.89] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[01:49.41] But I promise momma's gon' be alright

[01:52.67] It's funny

[01:53.64] I remember back one year when daddy had no money

[01:55.88] Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up

[01:58.14] And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were from me

[01:59.39] Cause daddy couldn't buy 'em

[02:01.64] I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying

[02:04.40] Cause daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job

[02:07.16] But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom

[02:09.89] And at the time every house that we lived in

[02:12.40] Either kept getting broken into and robbed

[02:14.39] Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving money for you in a jar

[02:18.41] Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college

[02:21.39] Almost had a thousand dollars till someone broke in and stole it

[02:24.13] And I know it hurt so bad it broke your momma's heart

[02:27.39] And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall apart

[02:30.15] Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma moved back

[02:32.91] On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom apartment

[02:35.66] And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara

[02:38.64] And that's when daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre

[02:41.89] And flew you and momma out to see me

[02:44.89] But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me

[02:46.89] Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V. and momma didn't like it

[02:49.38] And you and Laney were to young to understand it

[02:53.14] Papa was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit

[02:55.67] And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it

[02:58.40] I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand

[03:01.14] Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud

[03:04.15] Now I'm sitting in this empty house, just reminiscing

[03:06.66] Lookin' at your baby pictures, it just trips me out

[03:09.64] To see how much you both have grown, it's almost like you're sisters now

[03:12.64] Wow, guess you pretty much are and daddy's still here

[03:16.14] Laney I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here

[03:18.64] I like the sound of that, yeah

[03:19.40] It's got a ring to it don't it?

[03:20.40] Shh, momma's only gone for the moment

[03:24.14] Now hush little baby, don't you cry

[03:26.14] Everything's gonna be alright

[03:28.88] Stiffen that upper lip up little lady, I told ya

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

[03:34.65] I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why

[03:38.15] We fear how we feel inside

[03:40.39] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[03:43.39] But I promise momma's gon' be alright

[03:46.14] And if you ask me too Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird

[03:49.39] I'mma give you the world

[03:51.64] I'mma buy a diamond ring for you

[03:52.91] I'mma sing for you

[03:54.64] I'll do anything for you to see you smile

[03:57.41] And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine

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

[04:02.64] I'll go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya

[04:05.64] And make him eat every carat don't fuck with dad (ha ha)