Mockingbird

[00:10.56] Yeah

[00:12.69] I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now

[00:16.14] But hey, what daddy always tell you?

[00:19.86] Straighten up little soldier

[00:22.25] Stiffen up that upper lip

[00:25.17] What you crying about?

[00:27.03] You got me.

[00:29.42] Hailie, I know you miss your mom, and I know you miss your dad

[00:32.34] When I'm gone but I'm trying to give you the life that I never had

[00:35.00] I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh

[00:38.19] I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you want to cry

[00:40.87] 'Cause you're scared, I ain't there?

[00:42.73] Daddy's with you in your prayers

[00:43.80] No more crying, wipe them tears

[00:45.40] Daddy's here, no more nightmares

[00:46.73] We gon' pull together through it, we gon' do it

[00:49.39] Lainie Uncle's crazy, ain't he?

[00:50.72] Yeah, but he loves you girl and you better know it

[00:52.58] We're all we got in this world

[00:53.64] When it spins, when it swirls

[00:55.23] When it whirls, when it twirls

[00:56.56] Two little beautiful girls

[00:58.15] Lookin' puzzled, in a daze

[00:59.48] I know it's confusing you

[01:01.08] Daddy's always on the move, mamma's always on the news

[01:03.73] I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it seems

[01:06.39] The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me

[01:08.25] All the things growing up as daddy, that he had to see

[01:11.70] Daddy don't want you to see but you see just as much as he did

[01:14.62] We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me

[01:17.55] But things have got so bad between us

[01:19.94] I don't see us ever being together ever again

[01:20.73] Like we used to be when we was teenagers

[01:24.19] But then of course everything always happens for a reason

[01:26.84] I guess it was never meant to be

[01:28.97] But it's just something we have no control over and that's what destiny is

[01:32.15] But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep

[01:34.81] Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a dream

[01:37.73] Now hush little baby, don't you cry

[01:40.39] Everything's gonna be alright

[01:42.52] Stiffen that upper lip up, little lady, I told ya

[01:45.44] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[01:48.36] I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why

[01:51.54] We fear how we feel inside

[01:59.78] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[02:00.31] But I promise mama's gon' be alright

[02:01.37] (Ha)

[02:01.65] It's funny

[02:03.52] I remember back one year when daddy had no money

[02:04.05] Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up

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

[02:07.50] 'Cause daddy couldn't buy 'em

[02:08.83] I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying

[02:11.48] 'Cause daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job

[02:14.41] But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom

[02:17.06] And at the time every house that we lived in

[02:19.45] Either kept getting broken into and robbed

[02:21.84] Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving money for you in a jar

[02:25.83] Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college

[02:28.48] Almost had a thousand dollars 'til someone broke in and stole it

[02:31.67] And I know it hurts so bad it broke your mamma's heart

[02:34.06] And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall apart

[02:36.98] Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma moved back

[02:40.17] On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom apartment

[02:42.83] And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara

[02:45.75] And that's when daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre

[02:49.47] And flew you and momma out to see me

[02:51.33] But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me

[02:53.98] Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V. and momma didn't like it

[02:56.64] And you and Lainnie were too young to understand it

[03:00.36] Papa was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit

[03:03.01] And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it

[03:05.41] I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand

[03:08.06] 'Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud

[03:11.25] Now I'm sitting in this empty house, just reminiscing

[03:14.44] Lookin' at your baby pictures, it just trips me out

[03:17.09] To see how much you both have grown, it's almost like you're sisters now

[03:19.48] Wow, I guess you pretty much are and daddy's still here

[03:23.20] Lainnie I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here

[03:31.19] I like the sound of that, yeah

[03:33.04] It's got a ring to it don't it?

[03:33.84] Shh, mama's only gone for the moment

[03:34.37] Now hush little baby, don't you cry

[03:35.17] Everything's gonna be alright

[03:36.23] Stiffen that upper lip up, little lady, I told ya

[03:38.89] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[03:41.81] I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why

[03:45.00] We fear how we feel inside

[03:47.39] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[03:50.04] But I promise mama's gon' be alright

[03:53.23] And if you ask me to

[03:54.03] Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird

[03:56.69] I'mma give you the world

[03:58.81] I'mma buy a diamond ring for you

[04:00.41] I'mma sing for you

[04:01.47] I'll do anything for you to see you smile

[04:04.39] And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine

[04:07.84] I'mma break that birdie's neck

[04:09.97] I'll go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya

[04:12.90] And make him eat every carat don't fuck with dad (ha ha)