spotifydown.com - Mockingbird

[00:02.37] Yeah

[00:04.50] I know sometimes

[00:06.09] Things may not always make sense to you right now

[00:09.29] But hey

[00:10.89] What Daddy always tell you?

[00:13.28] Straighten up, little soldier

[00:15.67] Stiffen up that upper lip

[00:18.32] What you cryin' about?

[00:20.45] You got me

[00:22.04] Hailie, I know you miss your Mom, and I know you miss your Dad

[00:24.97] When I'm gone, but I'm tryin' to give you the life that I never had

[00:27.62] I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh

[00:31.08] I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you wanna cry

[00:33.73] 'Cause you're scared, I ain't there, Daddy's wit' you in your prayers

[00:36.39] No more cryin', wipe them tears, Daddy's here, no more nightmares

[00:39.31] We gon' pull together through it, we gon' do it

[00:41.70] Lainie, Uncle's crazy, ain't he? Yeah, but he loves you, girl, and you better know it

[00:45.15] We're all we got in this world when it spins, when it swirls

[00:47.81] When it whirls, when it twirls, two little beautiful girls

[00:50.73] Lookin' puzzled, in a daze, I know it's confusin' you

[00:53.65] Daddy's always on the move, Mama's always on the news

[00:56.31] I try to keep you sheltered from it, but somehow it seems

[00:58.70] The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me

[01:02.15] All the things growin' up as Daddy that he had to see

[01:04.81] Daddy don't want you to see, but you see just as much as he did

[01:07.73] We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me

[01:10.39] But things have got so bad between us, I don't see us ever bein'

[01:13.58] Together ever again, like we used to be when we was teenagers

[01:16.50] But then, of course, everything always happens for a reason

[01:19.42] I guess it was never meant to be

[01:21.54] But it's just somethin' we have no control over, and that's what destiny is

[01:25.26] But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep

[01:27.39] Maybe one day we'll wake up and this'll all just be a dream

[01:30.05] Now hush, little baby, don't you cry

[01:33.01] Everything's gonna be alright

[01:35.14] Stiffen that upper lip up, little lady, I told ya

[01:38.06] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[01:40.98] I know Mommy's not here right now and we don't know why

[01:44.43] We feel how we feel inside

[01:46.56] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[01:49.21] But I promise Mama's gon' be alright

[01:52.40] Heh, it's funny

[01:54.00] I remember back one year when Daddy had no money

[01:55.59] Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up and stuck 'em under the tree

[01:58.78] And said some of 'em were from me 'cause Daddy couldn't buy 'em

[02:01.43] I'll never forget that Christmas, I sat up the whole night crying

[02:04.36] 'Cause Daddy felt like a bum—see, Daddy had a job

[02:07.01] But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and Mom

[02:09.93] And at the time, every house that we lived in

[02:12.32] Either kept gettin' broken into and robbed or shot up on the block

[02:15.51] And your Mom was savin' money for you in a jar

[02:18.17] Tryin' to start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college

[02:21.36] Almost had a thousand dollars 'til someone broke in and stole it

[02:24.54] And I know it hurt so bad it broke your Mama's heart

[02:27.20] And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall apart

[02:30.12] Mom and Dad was arguin' a lot

[02:31.98] So Mama moved back on to Chalmers in the flat, one-bedroom apartment

[02:35.70] And Dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara

[02:38.36] And that's when Daddy went to California with his CD

[02:41.01] And met Dr. Dre, and flew you and Mama out to see me

[02:43.94] But Daddy had to work, you and Mama had to leave me

[02:46.86] Then you started seein' Daddy on the TV

[02:48.98] And Mama didn't like it

[02:50.57] And you and Lainie were too young to understand it

[02:52.70] Papa was a rolling stone, Mama developed a habit

[02:55.62] And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it

[02:58.54] I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it firsthand

[03:01.20] 'Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud

[03:03.85] Now I'm sittin' in this empty house just reminiscin'

[03:07.04] Lookin' at your baby pictures, it just trips me out

[03:09.43] To see how much you both have grown, it's almost like you're sisters now

[03:12.62] Wow, guess you pretty much are, and Daddy's still here

[03:15.81] Lainie, I'm talkin' to you too, Daddy's still here

[03:18.46] I like the sound of that, yeah, it's got a ring to it, don't it?

[03:21.92] Shh! Mama's only gone for the moment

[03:23.78] Now hush, little baby, don't you cry

[03:27.23] Everything's gonna be alright

[03:28.82] Stiffen that upper lip up, little lady, I told ya

[03:31.75] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[03:34.41] I know Mommy's not here right now and we don't know why

[03:37.86] We feel how we feel inside

[03:39.98] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[03:42.91] But I promise Mama's gon' be alright

[03:45.83] And if you ask me to, Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird

[03:49.54] I'ma give you the world

[03:51.40] I'ma buy a diamond ring for you, I'ma sing for you

[03:54.32] I'll do anything for you to see you smile

[03:57.25] And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine

[04:00.44] I'ma break that birdie's neck

[04:02.83] I'll go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya

[04:05.48] And make him eat every carat, don't fuck with Dad! (Haha)