Mockingbird

[00:02.29] Yeah

[00:04.41] I know sometimes

[00:06.27] Things may not always make sense to you right now

[00:08.39] But hey

[00:08.92] What Daddy always tell you?

[00:09.72] Straighten up, little soldier

[00:10.78] Stiffen up that upper lip

[00:12.11] What you cryin' about?

[00:13.17] You got me

[00:14.77] Hailie, I know you miss your Mom, and I know you miss your Dad

[00:15.84] When I'm gone, but I'm tryin' to give you the life that I never had

[00:16.63] I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh

[00:17.43] I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you wanna cry

[00:19.02] 'Cause you're scared, I ain't there, Daddy's wit' you in your prayers

[00:19.55] No more cryin', wipe them tears, Daddy's here, no more nightmares

[00:20.61] We gon' pull together through it, we gon' do it

[00:21.41] Lainie, Uncle's crazy, ain't he? Yeah, but he loves you, girl, and you better know it

[00:23.80] We're all we got in this world when it spins, when it swirls

[00:24.86] When it whirls, when it twirls, two little beautiful girls

[00:25.65] Lookin' puzzled, in a daze, I know it's confusin' you

[00:27.26] Daddy's always on the move, Mama's always on the news

[00:28.05] I try to keep you sheltered from it, but somehow it seems

[00:28.58] The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me

[00:29.91] All the things growin' up as Daddy that he had to see

[00:31.77] Daddy don't want you to see, but you see just as much as he did

[00:32.03] We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me

[00:32.56] But things have got so bad between us, I don't see us ever bein'

[00:33.09] Together ever again, like we used to be when we was teenagers

[00:33.63] Then, of course, everything always happens for a reason

[00:34.16] I guess it was never meant to be

[00:34.69] It's just somethin' we have no control over, and that's what destiny is

[00:34.95] But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep

[00:36.02] Maybe one day we'll wake up and this'll all just be a dream

[00:38.15] Now hush, little baby, don't you cry

[00:40.01] Everything's gonna be alright

[00:41.60] Stiffen that upper lip up, little lady, I told ya

[00:42.13] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[00:42.66] I know Mommy's not here right now and we don't know why

[00:43.19] We feel how we feel inside

[00:43.72] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[00:45.05] But I promise Mama's gon' be alright

[00:56.20] It's funny

[00:57.00] I remember back one year when Daddy had no money

[00:57.53] Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up and stuck 'em under the tree

[00:58.06] And said some of 'em were from me 'cause Daddy couldn't buy 'em

[00:58.59] I'll never forget that Christmas, I sat up the whole night crying

[00:59.39] 'Cause Daddy felt like a bum — see, Daddy had a job

[00:59.93] But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and Mom

[01:01.26] And at the time, every house that we lived in

[01:02.05] Either kept gettin' broken into and robbed or shot up on the block

[01:03.12] And your Mom was savin' money for you in a jar

[01:04.44] Tryin' to start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college

[01:04.71] Almost had a thousand dollars 'til someone broke in and stole it

[01:05.24] And I know it hurt so bad it broke your Mama's heart

[01:06.30] And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall apart

[01:07.36] Mom and Dad was arguin' a lot

[01:07.63] So Mama moved back on to Chalmers in the flat, one-bedroom apartment

[01:08.16] And Dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara

[01:09.22] That's when Daddy went to California with his CD

[01:10.56] And met Dr. Dre, and flew you and Mama out to see me

[01:12.15] But Daddy had to work, you and Mama had to leave me

[01:12.94] Then you started seein' Daddy on the TV

[01:13.48] Mama didn't like it

[01:14.27] And you and Lainie were too young to understand it

[01:15.33] Papa was a rolling stone, Mama developed a habit

[01:16.40] And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it

[01:16.93] I'm just sorry you were there, had to witness it firsthand

[01:18.25] 'Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud

[01:19.58] Now I'm sittin' in this empty house just reminiscin'

[01:19.84] Lookin' at your baby pictures, it just trips me out

[01:20.64] To see how much you both have grown, it's almost like you're sisters now

[01:21.70] Wow, guess you pretty much are, Daddy's still here

[01:23.04] Lainie, I'm talkin' to you too, Daddy's still here

[01:24.10] I like the sound of that shit, it's got a ring to it, don't it?

[01:24.63] Shh! Mama's only gone for the moment

[01:26.22] Now hush, little baby, don't you cry

[01:26.75] Everything's gonna be alright

[01:27.55] Stiffen that upper lip up, little lady, I told ya

[01:27.82] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[01:28.08] I know Mommy's not here right now and we don't know why

[01:28.61] We feel how we feel inside

[01:29.14] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[01:29.67] But I promise Mama's gon' be alright

[01:31.00] And if you ask me to, Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird

[01:31.53] I'ma give you the world

[01:33.39] I'ma buy a diamond ring for you, I'ma sing for you

[01:34.99] I'll do anything for you to see you smile

[01:36.58] And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine

[01:37.11] I'ma break that birdie's neck

[01:37.65] I'll go back to the jeweller who sold it to ya

[01:38.18] And make him eat every carat, don't mess with dad, haha