Mockingbird

[00:00.61] Mockingbird / Eminem

[00:09.37] Yeah

[00:11.77] I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now

[00:17.08] But hey, what daddy always tell you?

[00:21.08] Straighten up little soldier

[00:23.20] Stiffen up that upper lip

[00:25.87] What you crying about?

[00:27.99] You got me

[00:29.32] Hailie I know you miss your mom and I know you miss your dad

[00:31.98] When I'm gone but I'm trying to give you the life that I never had

[00:34.90] I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh

[00:38.10] I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you want to cry

[00:41.05] 'Cause you're scared, I ain't there?

[00:42.64] Daddy's with you in your prayers

[00:43.97] No more crying, wipe them tears

[00:45.29] Daddy's here, no more nightmares

[00:46.89] We gonna pull together through it, we gonna do it

[00:48.75] Laney uncles crazy, ain't he?

[00:50.87] Yeah but he loves you girl and you better know it

[00:52.20] We're all we got in this world

[00:53.81] When it spins, when it swirls

[00:55.14] When it whirls, when it twirls

[00:57.01] Two little beautiful girls

[00:58.34] Lookin' puzzled, in a daze

[00:59.44] I know it's confusing you

[01:00.66] Daddy's always on the move, mamma's always on the news

[01:03.85] I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it seems

[01:06.51] The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me

[01:09.43] All the things growing up his daddy that he had to see

[01:12.35] Daddy don't want you to see but you see just as much as he did

[01:15.28] We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me

[01:17.76] But things have gotten so bad between us

[01:19.17] I don't see us ever being together ever again

[01:22.37] Like we used to be when we was teenagers

[01:24.50] But then of course everything always happens for a reason

[01:26.88] I guess it was never meant to be

[01:28.74] But it's just something we have no control over and that's what destiny is

[01:32.46] But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep

[01:34.86] Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a dream

[01:37.34] Now hush little baby, don't you cry

[01:40.27] Everything's gonna be alright

[01:42.66] Stiffen that upper lip up little lady, I told ya

[01:45.92] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[01:48.31] I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why

[01:51.76] We fear how we feel inside

[01:53.96] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[01:56.88] But I promise momma's gonna be alright

[01:59.80] It's funny

[02:00.17] I remember back one year when daddy had no money

[02:03.11] Mommy wrapped the christmas presents up

[02:05.23] And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were from me

[02:07.63] 'Cause daddy couldn't buy 'em

[02:09.22] I'll never forget that christmas I sat up the whole night crying

[02:11.70] 'Cause daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job

[02:14.08] But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom

[02:17.53] And at the time every house that we lived in

[02:20.98] Either kept getting broke into and robbed

[02:21.86] Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving money for you in a jar

[02:25.08] Tryin' to start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college

[02:28.57] Almost had a thousand dollars till someone broke in and stole it

[02:31.75] And I know it hurt so bad it broke your momma's heart

[02:34.68] And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall apart

[02:37.33] Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma moved back

[02:40.26] On the chalmers in the flat one bedroom apartment

[02:42.91] And dad moved back to the other side of 8 mile on Novara

[02:45.84] And that's when daddy went to california with his CD and met Dr. Dre

[02:49.82] And flew you and momma out to see me

[02:51.67] But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me

[02:54.60] Then you started seeing daddy on the t.V. And momma didn't like it

[02:58.05] And you and Laney were to young to understand it

[03:00.44] Papa was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit

[03:02.83] And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it

[03:05.76] I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand

[03:08.67] 'Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud

[03:11.34] Now I'm sittin' in this empty house, just reminiscing

[03:14.25] Lookin' at your baby pictures, it just trips me out

[03:17.17] To see how much you both have grown, it's almost like you're sisters now

[03:20.10] Wow, guess you pretty much are and daddy's still here

[03:23.03] Laney I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here

[03:25.98] I like the sound of that, yeah

[03:27.58] It's got a ring to it don't it?

[03:28.91] Shh, momma's only gone for the moment

[03:31.05] Now hush little baby, don't you cry

[03:33.71] Everything's gonna be alright

[03:35.83] Stiffen that upper lip up little lady, I told ya

[03:39.02] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[03:41.67] I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why

[03:45.41] We fear how we feel inside

[03:47.52] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[03:50.18] But I promise momma's gonna be alright

[03:53.10] And if you ask me too

[03:54.69] Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird

[03:56.81] Ima give you the world

[03:58.67] Ima buy a diamond ring for you

[04:00.09] Ima sing for you

[04:01.51] I'll do anything for you to see you smile

[04:04.27] And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine

[04:08.23] Ima break that birdies neck

[04:10.09] I'd go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya

[04:12.75] And make him eat every carat don't f with dad (ha)