Mockingbird

[00:03.10] Yeah

[00:04.95] I know sometimes

[00:06.82] Things might not always make sense to you right now

[00:10.79] But hey, what daddy always tell you

[00:14.51] Straighten up little soldier

[00:17.17] Stiffen up that upper lip

[00:19.30] What’chu crying about?

[00:21.42] You got me...

[00:23.29] Hailie, I know you miss your mom

[00:24.61] And I know you miss your dad

[00:25.94] When I’m gone, but I’m trying to give you the life that I never had

[00:28.86] I can see you’re sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh

[00:32.06] I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you wanna cry

[00:34.71] Cause you’re scared, I ain’t there, Daddy’s with you in your prayers

[00:37.62] No more cryin wipe them tears, Daddy’s here no more nightmares

[00:40.56] We gonna pull together through it, we gonna do it

[00:42.72] Lainie, uncle’s crazy ain’t he, yeah but he loves you girl and you better know it

[00:46.15] We’re all we got in this world

[00:47.50] When it spins, when it swirls

[00:49.09] When it whirls, when it twirls

[00:50.43] Two little beautiful girls

[00:51.77] Lookin puzzled, in a daze, I know it’s confusing you

[00:54.69] Daddy’s always on the move, Mama’s always on the news

[00:57.35] I try to keep you sheltered from it, but somehow it seems

[01:00.00] The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me

[01:02.92] All the things, growin up as daddy that he had to see

[01:05.58] Daddy don’t want you to see, but you see just as much as he did

[01:08.52] We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me

[01:11.19] But things have got so bad between us

[01:12.79] I don’t see us ever being together ever again

[01:15.71] Like we used to be, when was teenagers

[01:17.55] But then of course everything always happen for a reason

[01:20.48] I guess it was never meant to be, but it’s just something we have no control over and that’s what destiny is

[01:26.30] But no more worries rest your head and go to sleep

[01:28.46] Maybe one day we’ll wake up and this will all just be a dream

[01:31.11] Now hush little baby don’t you cry, everythings gonna be alright

[01:36.16] Stiffen that upper lip up little lady, I told ya

[01:39.34] Daddy’s here to hold ya, through the night

[01:41.74] I know mommy’s not here right now and we don’t know why

[01:45.46] We fear how we feel inside

[01:47.32] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby, but I promise, Mama’s gon be alright

[01:53.42] It’s funny, I remember back one year when daddy had no money

[01:56.62] Mommy wrapped the Christamas presents up and stuck em under the tree

[01:59.82] And said some of em were from me, cause daddy couldn’t buy em

[02:02.47] I’ll never forget that Christmas, I sat up the whole night cryin

[02:05.15] Cause daddy felt like a bum, see Daddy had a job

[02:08.07] But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom

[02:10.73] And at the time, every house that we lived in

[02:13.13] Either kept getting broken into and robbed or shot up on the block

[02:16.58] And your mom was saving money for you in a jar

[02:19.49] Try'na to start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college

[02:22.43] We almost had a thousand dollars, 'till someone broke in and stole it

[02:25.61] And I know it hurt so bad, it broke your mamma’s heart

[02:28.00] And it seemed like everything was just starting to fall apart

[02:30.92] Mom and dad was arguing a lot

[02:33.05] So mama moved back on the chalmers in a flat, one bedroom apartment

[02:36.76] And dad moved back to the other side of 8 mile on Novara

[02:39.42] And that’s when Daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre

[02:43.15] And flew you and Mama out to see me

[02:45.28] But daddy had to work, you and mama had to leave me

[02:47.70] Then you started seeing daddy on the TV

[02:50.08] And mama didn’t like it

[02:51.40] And you and Lainie were too young to understand it

[02:53.79] That Papa was a rolling stone

[02:55.12] Mama developed a habit

[02:56.72] And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it

[02:59.37] I’m just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand

[03:02.29] Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud

[03:04.95] Now I’m sittin in this empty house

[03:07.09] Just reminiscing

[03:08.06] Looking at your baby pictures, it just trips me out to see how much you both have grown

[03:11.86] It’s almost like your sisters now

[03:13.45] Wow, I guess you pretty much are, and daddy’s still here

[03:16.90] Lainie I’m talking to you too, Daddy’s still here

[03:19.57] I like the sound of that, yeah it’s got a ring to it, don’t it?

[03:22.52] Shhh, mama’s only gone for the moment

[03:24.65] Now hush little baby don’t you cry, everythings gonna be alright

[03:29.69] Stiffen that upper lip up little lady, I told ya

[03:32.88] Daddy’s here to hold ya, through the night

[03:35.26] I know mommy’s not here right now and we don’t know why

[03:38.97] We fear how we feel inside

[03:41.11] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby, but I promise, Mama’s gon be alright

[03:46.69] And if you ask me to, Daddy’s gonna buy you a mocking bird

[03:50.40] I’ma give you the world

[03:52.27] I’ma buy a diamond ring for you, I’ma sing for you

[03:55.20] I’ll do anything for you to see you smile

[03:58.12] And if that mockingbird don’t sing and the ring don’t shine

[04:01.57] I’ma break that birdies neck

[04:03.69] I’ll go back to the jeweler, who sold it to ya

[04:06.36] And make him eat every karat, don’t fuck with dad