Mockingbird

[00:03.02] Yeah, I know sometimes

[00:06.22] Things may not always make sense to you right now

[00:09.41] But, hey, what daddy always tell you?

[00:13.94] Straighten up, little soldier

[00:16.07] Stiffen up that upper lip

[00:18.72] What you crying about?

[00:21.11] You got me

[00:22.43] Hailie, I know you miss your mom and I know you miss your dad

[00:25.12] Well, I'm gone, but I'm trying to give you the life that I never had

[00:28.06] I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh

[00:31.01] I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you want to cry

[00:34.19] 'Cause you're scared, I ain't there?

[00:35.55] Daddy's with you in your prayers

[00:36.86] No more crying, wipe them tears

[00:38.20] Daddy's here, no more nightmares

[00:39.79] We gon' pull together through it, we gon' do it

[00:42.18] Lainie, uncle's crazy, ain't he?

[00:43.53] Yeah, but he loves you, girl, and you better know it

[00:45.46] We're all we got in this world

[00:47.04] When it spins, when it swirls

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

[00:49.70] Two little beautiful girls

[00:51.02] Lookin' puzzled, in a daze

[00:52.35] I know it's confusing you

[00:53.96] Daddy's always on the move, mamma's always on the news

[00:56.62] I try to keep you sheltered from it, but somehow it seems

[00:59.27] The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me

[01:01.68] All the things growing up his daddy that he had to see

[01:04.86] Daddy don't want you to see, but you see just as much as he did

[01:08.03] We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me

[01:10.44] But things have gotten so bad between us

[01:12.31] I don't see us ever being together ever again

[01:14.44] Like we used to be when we was teenagers

[01:16.83] But then of course everything always happens for a reason

[01:19.76] I guess it was never meant to be

[01:21.61] But it's just something we have no control over and that's what destiny is

[01:25.33] But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep

[01:27.45] Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a dream

[01:30.66] Now hush, little baby, don't you cry

[01:33.59] Everything's gonna be alright

[01:35.45] Stiffen that upperlip up, little lady, I told ya

[01:38.64] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[01:41.03] I know mommy's not here right now, and we don't know why

[01:44.51] We fear how we feel inside

[01:46.65] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[01:49.57] But I promise: Momma's gon' be alright

[01:52.76] It's funny

[01:53.83] I remember back one year, when daddy had no money

[01:55.69] Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up

[01:57.54] And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were from me

[02:00.24] 'Cause daddy couldn't buy 'em

[02:01.82] I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying

[02:04.81] 'Cause daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job

[02:07.46] But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom

[02:10.39] And at the time every house that we lived in

[02:12.52] Either kept getting broke into and robbed or shot up on the block

[02:15.76] And your mom was saving money for you in a jar

[02:18.69] Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college

[02:21.63] Almost had a thousand dollars till someone broke in and stole it

[02:24.83] And I know it hurt so bad it broke your momma's heart

[02:27.49] 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

[02:33.34] On the Chalmers in the flat, one bedroom apartment

[02:36.25] And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara

[02:39.17] And that's when daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre

[02:42.39] And flew you and momma out to see me

[02:42.64] But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me

[02:47.44] Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V. and momma didn't like it

[02:50.65] And you and Lainie were to young to understand it

[02:53.38] Papa was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit

[02:56.05] And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it

[02:59.24] I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand

[03:01.89] 'Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud

[03:04.02] Now I'm sittin in this empty house, just reminiscing

[03:07.19] Lookin' at your baby pictures, it just trips me out

[03:09.85] To see how much you both have grown, it's almost like you're sisters now

[03:13.06] Wow, guess you pretty much are and daddy's still here

[03:16.02] Lainie, I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here

[03:18.68] I like the sound of that, yeah

[03:20.81] It's got a ring to it, don't it?

[03:22.11] Shh, momma's only gone for the moment

[03:24.24] Now hush, little baby, don't you cry

[03:27.18] Everything's gonna be alright

[03:28.78] Stiffen that upper lip up, little lady, I told ya

[03:31.99] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[03:34.64] I know mommy's not here right now, and we don't know why

[03:37.83] We fear how we feel inside

[03:40.22] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[03:42.35] But I promise: Momma's gon' be alright

[03:46.06] And if you ask me to

[03:46.87] Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird

[03:49.53] I'ma give you the world

[03:51.38] I'ma buy a diamond ring for you

[03:53.50] I'ma sing for you

[03:54.57] I'll do anything for you, to see you smile

[03:57.26] And if that mocking bird don't sing and that ring don't shine

[04:00.70] I'ma break that birdie's neck

[04:02.59] I'd go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya

[04:05.49] And make him eat every carat don't fuck with dad (haha)