Mockingbird

[00:02.74] Yeah

[00:04.65] I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now

[00:08.44] But hey, what daddy always tell you?

[00:12.20] Straighten up little soldier

[00:14.86] Stiffen up that upper lip

[00:17.39] What you crying about?

[00:20.31] You got me

[00:21.67] Hailie I know you miss your mom and I know you miss your dad

[00:24.65] When I'm gone but I'm trying to give you the life that I never had

[00:27.59] 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

[00:33.71] 'Cause you're scared, I ain't there?

[00:34.99] Daddy's with you in your prayers

[00:36.65] No more crying, wipe them tears

[00:38.23] Daddy's here, no more nightmares

[00:39.31] We gonna pull together through it, we gonna do it

[00:41.49] Laney uncles crazy, ain't he?

[00:42.86] Yeah but he loves you girl and you better know it

[00:44.98] We're all we got in this world

[00:46.63] When it spins, when it swirls

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

[00:49.39] Two little beautiful girls

[00:50.72] Lookin' puzzled, in a daze

[00:52.09] I know it's confusing you

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

[00:56.18] I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it seems

[00:58.94] The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me

[01:01.64] All the things growing up his daddy that he had to see

[01:04.59] Daddy don't want you to see but you see just as much as he did

[01:07.30] We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me

[01:10.27] But things have gotten so bad between us

[01:10.81] I don't see us ever being together ever again

[01:13.86] Like we used to be when we was teenagers

[01:16.57] But then of course everything always happens for a reason

[01:19.29] I guess it was never meant to be

[01:21.30] But it's just something we have no control over and that's what destiny is

[01:24.55] But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep

[01:27.54] Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a dream

[01:29.97] Now hush little baby, don't you cry

[01:32.89] Everything's gonna be alright

[01:34.77] Stiffen that upper lip up little lady, I told ya

[01:37.98] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[01:40.45] I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why

[01:44.22] We fear how we feel inside

[01:46.12] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[01:49.11] But I promise momma's gonna be alright

[01:52.37] It's funny

[01:53.45] I remember back one year when daddy had no money

[01:55.91] Mommy wrapped the christmas presents up

[01:57.60] And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were from me

[01:59.77] 'Cause daddy couldn't buy 'em

[02:01.40] I'll never forget that christmas I sat up the whole night crying

[02:04.16] 'Cause daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job

[02:06.91] But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom

[02:09.65] And at the time every house that we lived in

[02:12.32] Either kept getting broke into and robbed

[02:14.25] Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving money for you in a jar

[02:18.38] Tryin' to start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college

[02:21.32] Almost had a thousand dollars till someone broke in and stole it

[02:24.55] And I know it hurt so bad it broke your momma's heart

[02:27.01] And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall apart

[02:29.67] Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma moved back

[02:33.08] On the chalmers in the flat one bedroom apartment

[02:35.48] And dad moved back to the other side of 8 mile on Novara

[02:38.15] And that's when daddy went to california with his CD and met Dr. Dre

[02:41.91] And flew you and momma out to see me

[02:44.07] But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me

[02:46.49] Then you started seeing daddy on the t.V. And momma didn't like it

[02:50.22] And you and Laney were to young to understand it

[02:52.63] Papa was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit

[02:55.61] And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it

[02:58.27] 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

[03:03.88] Now I'm sittin' in this empty house, just reminiscing

[03:07.06] Lookin' at your baby pictures, it just trips me out

[03:09.49] To see how much you both have grown, it's almost like you're sisters now

[03:12.22] Wow, guess you pretty much are and daddy's still here

[03:15.68] Laney I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here

[03:18.66] I like the sound of that, yeah

[03:19.97] It's got a ring to it don't it?

[03:21.31] Shh, momma's only gone for the moment

[03:23.46] Now hush little baby, don't you cry

[03:26.13] Everything's gonna be alright

[03:28.05] Stiffen that upper lip up little lady, I told ya

[03:31.52] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[03:33.93] I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why

[03:37.67] We fear how we feel inside

[03:39.54] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[03:42.21] But I promise momma's gonna be alright

[03:45.13] And if you ask me too

[03:46.76] Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird

[03:49.15] Ima give you the world

[03:52.89] Ima buy a diamond ring for you

[03:53.19] Ima sing for you

[03:54.25] I'll do anything for you to see you smile

[03:55.85] And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine

[04:00.39] Ima break that birdies neck

[04:02.24] I'd go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya

[04:05.20] And make him eat every carat don't f with dad (ha)