Mockingbird

[00:02.22] Yeah

[00:04.47] I know sometimes things might not always make sense to you right now

[00:10.21] But hey, what daddy always tell you’ Straighten up little soldier

[00:16.49] Stiffen up that upper lip What’chu crying about?

[00:21.26] You got me..

[00:22.29] Hailie, I know you miss your mom and I know you miss your dad

[00:25.30] When I’m gone but I’m trying to give you the life that I never had

[00:28.32] I can see you’re sad, even when you smile even when you laugh

[00:31.32] I can see it in your eyes deep inside, you wanna cry

[00:34.32] Cause you’re scared I ain’t there, Daddy’s with you in your prayers

[00:37.34] No more cryin wipe them tears, Daddy’s here no more nightmares

[00:39.85] We gonna pull together through it we gonna do it

[00:42.37] Lainie, uncle’s crazy ain’t he, yeah but he loves you girl and you better know it

[00:45.40] We’re all we got in this world when it spins, when it swirls

[00:48.16] When it whirls, when it twirls, two little beautiful girls

[00:51.17] Lookin puzzled, in a daze I know it’s confusing you

[00:54.16] Daddy’s always on the move, Mama’s always on the news

[00:56.93] I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it seems

[00:58.95] The harder that I try to do that the more it backfires on me

[01:02.19] All the things, growin up as daddy that he had to see

[01:04.69] Daddy don’t want you to see but you see just as much as he did

[01:07.44] We did not plan it to be this way your mother and me

[01:10.19] But things have got so bad between us I don’t see us ever being together ever again

[01:14.70] Like we used to be like when was teenagers but then of course everything always happen for a reason

[01:19.44] I guess it was never meant to be but it’s just something we have no control over

[01:23.94] And that’s what destiny is, but no more worries rest your head and go to sleep

[01:27.93] Maybe one day we’ll wake up and this will all just be a dream

[01:30.70] Now hush little baby don’t you cry everythings gonna be alright

[01:35.73] Stiffen that upper lip up little lady I told ya

[01:38.75] Daddy’s here to hold ya through the night

[01:41.27] I know mommy’s not here right now and we don’t know why

[01:44.79] We fear how we feel inside

[01:47.05] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[01:49.83] But I promise Mama’s gon be alright

[01:52.84] It’s funny, I remember back one year when daddy had no money

[01:56.10] Mommy wrapped the Christamas presents up and stuck em under the tree

[01:59.10] and said some of em were from me cause daddy couldn’t buy em

[02:01.86] I’ll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night cryin

[02:04.87] Cause daddy felt like a bum, see Daddy had a job

[02:07.37] But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom

[02:10.42] And at the time every house that we lived in

[02:12.66] Either kept getting broken into and robbed or shot up on the block

[02:15.93] And your mom, was saving money for you in a jar trying to start a piggy bank for you

[02:20.20] So you could go to college, almost had a thousand dollars

[02:23.71] Till someone broke in and stole it and I know it hurt so bad it broke your mamma’s heart

[02:27.48] And it seemed like everything was just starting to fall apart

[02:30.23] Mom and dad was arguing a lot so mama moved back on the chalmers in a flat

[02:34.73] One bedroom apartment and dad moved back to the other side of 8 mile on Novara

[02:38.49] And that’s when Daddy went to California with his CD

[02:41.23] And met Dr. Dre and flew you and Mama out to see me

[02:44.24] But daddy had to work, you and mama had to leave me

[02:46.98] Then you started seeing daddy on the TV, and mama didn’t like it

[02:50.49] And you and Lainie were too young to understand it

[02:52.73] That Papa was a rolling stone, Mama developed a habit

[02:55.98] And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it

[02:58.73] I’m just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand

[03:01.47] Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud

[03:03.97] Now I’m sittin in this empty house, just reminiscing

[03:07.23] Looking at your baby pictures it just trips me out

[03:09.72] To see how much you both have grown, it’s almost like your sisters now

[03:12.74] Wow, I guess you pretty much are and daddy’s still here

[03:15.98] Lainie I’m talking to you too, Daddy’s still here

[03:18.49] I like the sound of that, yeah it’s got a ring to it, don’t it?

[03:22.00] Shhh, mama’s only gone for the moment

[03:24.03] Now hush little baby don’t you cry everythings gonna be alright

[03:28.53] Stiffen that upper lip up little lady I told ya

[03:32.03] Daddy’s here to hold ya through the night

[03:34.53] I know mommy’s not here right now and we don’t know why

[03:38.29] We fear how we feel inside

[03:40.03] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[03:42.80] But I promise Mama’s gon be alright

[03:45.53] And if you ask me to, Daddy’s gonna buy you a mocking bird

[03:49.53] I’ma give you the world, I’ma buy a diamond ring for you

[03:52.79] I’ma sing for you, I’ll do anything for you to see you smile

[03:57.04] And if that mockingbird don’t sing and the ring don’t shine

[04:00.53] I’ma break that birdies neck

[04:02.79] I’ll go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya

[04:05.78] And make him eat every karat, don’t fuck with dad