Rockabye

[00:00.96] Call it love and devotion

[00:03.35] Call it a mom's adoration, foundation

[00:05.75] A special bond of creation, ha

[00:08.93] For all the single moms out there

[00:12.39] Goin' through frustration

[00:13.98] Clean Bandit, Chanderpaul

[00:15.84] Anne-Marie, sing, make them hear

[00:17.43] She works the nights by the water

[00:22.21] She's gone astray, so far away

[00:24.61] From her father's daughter

[00:27.00] She just wants a life for her baby

[00:31.78] All on her own, no one will come

[00:34.17] She's got to save him (Daily struggle)

[00:36.82] She tells him, "Ooh, love

[00:38.42] No one's ever gonna hurt you, love

[00:40.81] I'm gonna give you all of my love

[00:42.93] Nobody matters like you" (Stay up there, stay up there)

[00:46.39] She tells him, "Your life

[00:47.71] Ain't gon' be nothin' like my life (Straight)

[00:50.37] You're gonna grow and have a good life

[00:52.49] I'm gonna do what I've got to do" (Stay up there, stay up there)

[00:55.68] So rockabye, baby, rockabye

[00:59.67] I'm gonna rock you

[01:01.00] Rockabye, baby, don't you cry

[01:04.45] Somebody's got you

[01:05.51] Rockabye, baby, rockabye

[01:08.96] I'm gonna rock you

[01:10.29] Rockabye, baby, don't you cry

[01:14.28] Rockabye

[01:17.73] (No, oh)

[01:18.53] Rockabye, rocka-rocka-rockabye

[01:20.39] (Rockabye, yeah, yeah)

[01:21.98] Rockabye, rocka-rocka-rockabye

[01:24.90] Single mom, how you doin' out there?

[01:27.03] Facing the hard life without no fear (Yeah)

[01:29.15] Just so you know that you really care (Uh)

[01:31.54] 'Cause any obstacle come, you're well prepared (Oh no)

[01:33.93] And no, mama, you never shed tear

[01:36.06] 'Cause you haffi shed things year after year (Na-na-na-na)

[01:38.71] And you give the yout love beyond compare (Yeah)

[01:40.84] You find his school fee and the bus fare (Yeah)

[01:43.49] Mm, already pops disappear

[01:45.88] Inna rum bar, can't find him nowhere

[01:48.01] Steadily your workflow heavily, you know

[01:50.40] So you nah stop, no time, no time for ya dear

[01:54.39] Now she got a six-year-old

[01:55.18] Tryin' to keep him warm

[01:56.51] Tryin' to keep out the cold

[01:58.10] When he looks in her eyes

[01:59.96] He don't know he is safe when she says

[02:02.09] "Ooh, love

[02:02.88] No one's ever gonna hurt you, love

[02:05.28] I'm gonna give you all of my love

[02:07.67] Nobody matters like you"

[02:11.12] So rockabye, baby, rockabye

[02:14.84] I'm gonna rock you

[02:16.17] Rockabye, baby, don't you cry

[02:19.62] Somebody's got you

[02:20.95] Rockabye, baby, rockabye

[02:24.14] I'm gonna rock you

[02:25.46] Rockabye, baby, don't you cry (Bada-bang-bang-bang, alright then)

[02:29.71] Rockabye

[02:32.37] (No, oh)

[02:33.70] Rockabye, rocka-rocka-rocka-bye

[02:35.03] (Rockabye, yeah, yeah)

[02:37.68] Rockabye, rocka-rocka-rocka-bye

[02:39.81] Rockabye, don't bother cry

[02:42.20] Lift up your head, lift it up to the sky, yo

[02:44.32] Rockabye, don't bother cry

[02:46.71] Angels surround you, just dry your eye

[02:49.10] Now she got a six-year-old

[02:51.23] Tryin' to keep him warm

[02:53.35] Tryin' to keep out the cold

[02:54.95] When he looks in her eyes

[02:56.54] He don't know he is safe when she says

[03:00.53] She tells him, "Ooh, love

[03:02.38] No one's ever gonna hurt you, love

[03:04.51] I'm gonna give you all of my love

[03:06.90] Nobody matters like you" (Stay up there, stay up there)

[03:10.09] She tells him, "Your life

[03:11.68] Ain't gon' be nothin' like my life (Straight)

[03:14.07] You're gonna grow and have a good life

[03:16.20] I'm gonna do what I got to do" (Yeah)

[03:19.92] So, rockabye, baby, rockabye (Rockabye, rocka-rocka-rockabye)

[03:23.63] I'm gonna rock you

[03:24.96] Rockabye, baby, don't you cry (Rockabye, rocka-rocka-rockabye)

[03:28.42] Somebody's got you

[03:29.48] Rockabye, baby, rockabye (Rockabye, rocka-rocka-rockabye)

[03:32.93] I'm gonna rock you

[03:34.26] Rockabye, baby, don't you cry (Bada-bang-bang-bang, alright then)

[03:37.98] Rockabye

[03:40.37] Rockabye, don't bother cry

[03:41.43] Lift up your head, lift it up to the sky (Rockabye)

[03:43.56] Rockabye, don't bother cry (Yeah, yeah)

[03:46.21] Angels surround you, just dry your eye (Rockabye)

[03:48.60] Rockabye, don't bother cry (No, oh)

[03:50.99] Lift up your head, lift it up to the sky (Rockabye)

[03:53.39] Rockabye, don't bother cry

[03:55.51] Angels surround you, just dry your eye