Mockingbird

[00:00.14] Yeah

[00:05.30] I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now

[00:10.82] But hey, what daddy always tell you?

[00:14.49] Straighten up little soldier

[00:16.99] Stiffen up that upper lip

[00:20.25] What you crying about?

[00:21.40] You got me.

[00:22.90] Hailie, I know you miss your mom, and I know you miss your dad

[00:26.06] When I'm gone but I'm trying to give you the life that I never had

[00:28.82] I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh

[00:32.09] I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you want to cry

[00:35.09] 'Cause you're scared, I ain't there?

[00:36.25] Daddy's with you in your prayers

[00:37.51] No more crying, wipe them tears

[00:38.91] Daddy's here, no more nightmares

[00:40.67] We gon' pull together through it, we gon' do it

[00:42.83] Lainie Uncle's crazy, ain't he?

[00:44.17] Yeah, but he loves you girl and you better know it

[00:46.43] We're all we got in this world

[00:47.58] When it spins, when it swirls

[00:48.98] When it whirls, when it twirls

[00:50.50] Two little beautiful girls

[00:51.90] Lookin' puzzled, in a daze

[00:53.16] I know it's confusing you

[00:54.92] Daddy's always on the move, mamma's always on the news

[00:57.34] I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it seems

[01:00.09] The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me

[01:03.00] All the things growing up as daddy, that he had to see

[01:05.92] Daddy don't want you to see but you see just as much as he did

[01:09.09] We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me

[01:11.23] But things have got so bad between us

[01:12.73] I don't see us ever being together ever again

[01:15.89] Like we used to be when we was teenagers

[01:17.90] But then of course everything always happens for a reason

[01:20.30] I guess it was never meant to be

[01:22.31] But it's just something we have no control over and that's what destiny is

[01:25.73] But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep

[01:28.39] Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a dream

[01:31.16] Now hush little baby, don't you cry

[01:34.31] Everything's gonna be alright

[01:36.32] Stiffen that upper lip up, little lady, I told ya

[01:38.83] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[01:42.09] I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why

[01:45.60] We fear how we feel inside

[01:47.86] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[01:50.62] But I promise mama's gon' be alright

[01:53.04] (Ha)

[01:53.69] It's funny

[01:54.20] I remember back one year when daddy had no money

[01:56.78] Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up

[01:58.67] And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were from me

[02:01.07] 'Cause daddy couldn't buy 'em

[02:02.57] I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying

[02:05.32] 'Cause daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job

[02:07.96] But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom

[02:10.74] And at the time every house that we lived in

[02:13.65] Either kept getting broken into and robbed

[02:15.30] Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving money for you in a jar

[02:19.31] Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college

[02:22.21] Almost had a thousand dollars 'til someone broke in and stole it

[02:25.22] And I know it hurts so bad it broke your mamma's heart

[02:28.14] And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall apart

[02:30.89] Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma moved back

[02:34.06] On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom apartment

[02:36.56] And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara

[02:39.32] And that's when daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre

[02:43.58] And flew you and momma out to see me

[02:45.23] But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me

[02:47.74] Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V. and momma didn't like it

[02:51.38] And you and Lainnie were too young to understand it

[02:53.77] Papa was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit

[02:56.52] And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it

[02:59.28] I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand

[03:02.55] 'Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud

[03:04.94] Now I'm sitting in this empty house, just reminiscing

[03:07.94] Lookin' at your baby pictures, it just trips me out

[03:10.34] To see how much you both have grown, it's almost like you're sisters now

[03:13.36] Wow, I guess you pretty much are and daddy's still here

[03:16.99] Lainnie I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here

[03:19.89] I like the sound of that, yeah

[03:21.14] It's got a ring to it don't it?

[03:22.78] Shh, mama's only gone for the moment

[03:24.80] Now hush little baby, don't you cry

[03:27.56] Everything's gonna be alright

[03:29.57] Stiffen that upper lip up, little lady, I told ya

[03:32.48] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[03:35.23] I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why

[03:38.49] We fear how we feel inside

[03:40.99] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[03:43.51] But I promise mama's gon' be alright

[03:46.77] And if you ask me to

[03:47.92] Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird

[03:50.43] I'mma give you the world

[03:52.43] I'mma buy a diamond ring for you

[03:54.69] I'mma sing for you

[03:55.33] I'll do anything for you to see you smile

[03:58.08] And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine

[04:01.84] I'mma break that birdie's neck

[04:03.98] I'll go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya

[04:06.61] And make him eat every carat don't fuck with dad (ha ha)