Mockingbird

[00:00.26] "Mockingbird"

[00:02.26] Yeah

[00:04.37] I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now

[00:09.95] But hey, what daddy always tell you?

[00:13.75] Straighten up little soldier

[00:16.09] Stiffen up that upper lip

[00:18.93] What you crying about?

[00:20.78] You got me.

[00:21.98] Hailie, I know you miss your mom, and I know you miss your dad

[00:24.89] When I'm gone but I'm trying to give you the life that I never had

[00:27.76] I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh

[00:31.03] I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you want to cry

[00:33.80] 'Cause you're scared, I ain't there?

[00:35.26] Daddy's with you in your prayers

[00:36.66] No more crying, wipe them tears

[00:38.16] Daddy's here, no more nightmares

[00:39.42] We gon' pull together through it, we gon' do it

[00:41.67] Lainie Uncle's crazy, ain't he?

[00:43.00] Yeah, but he loves you girl and you better know it

[00:45.16] We're all we got in this world

[00:46.64] When it spins, when it swirls

[00:48.02] When it whirls, when it twirls

[00:49.32] Two little beautiful girls

[00:50.82] Lookin' puzzled, in a daze

[00:52.30] I know it's confusing you

[00:53.70] Daddy's always on the move, mamma's always on the news

[00:56.54] I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it seems

[00:59.02] The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me

[01:02.05] All the things growing up as daddy, that he had to see

[01:04.85] Daddy don't want you to see but you see just as much as he did

[01:07.64] We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me

[01:10.25] But things have got so bad between us

[01:11.73] I don't see us ever being together ever again

[01:14.57] Like we used to be when we was teenagers

[01:16.57] But then of course everything always happens for a reason

[01:19.58] I guess it was never meant to be

[01:21.19] But it's just something we have no control over and that's what destiny is

[01:25.08] But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep

[01:27.40] Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a dream

[01:30.30] Now hush little baby, don't you cry

[01:33.18] Everything's gonna be alright

[01:35.17] Stiffen that upper lip up, little lady, I told ya

[01:38.42] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[01:40.93] I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why

[01:44.68] We feel how we feel inside

[01:46.72] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[01:49.43] But I promise mama's gon' be alright.

[01:51.94] (Ha)

[01:52.37] It's funny

[01:53.33] I remember back one year when daddy had no money

[01:55.81] Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up

[01:57.34] And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were from me

[02:00.30] 'Cause daddy couldn't buy 'em

[02:01.42] I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying

[02:04.31] 'Cause daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job

[02:07.00] But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom

[02:09.99] And at the time every house that we lived in

[02:12.37] Either kept getting broken into and robbed

[02:14.30] Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving money for you in a jar

[02:18.63] Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college

[02:21.38] Almost had a thousand dollars 'til someone broke in and stole it

[02:24.76] And I know it hurt so bad it broke your mamma's heart

[02:27.13] And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall apart

[02:30.06] Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma moved back

[02:32.96] On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom apartment

[02:35.67] And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara

[02:38.53] And that's when daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre

[02:42.29] And flew you and momma out to see me

[02:44.05] But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me

[02:46.90] Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V. and momma didn't like it

[02:50.63] And you and Lainnie were too young to understand it

[02:52.69] Papa was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit

[02:55.67] And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it

[02:58.45] I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand

[03:01.38] 'Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud

[03:04.23] Now I'm sitting in this empty house, just reminiscing

[03:07.03] Lookin' at your baby pictures, it just trips me out

[03:09.46] To see how much you both have grown, it's almost like you're sisters now

[03:12.84] Wow, I guess you pretty much are and daddy's still here

[03:15.74] Lainnie I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here

[03:18.73] I like the sound of that, yeah

[03:20.30] It's got a ring to it don't it?

[03:21.56] Shh, mama's only gone for the moment.

[03:23.69] Now hush little baby, don't you cry

[03:26.71] Everything's gonna be alright

[03:28.73] Stiffen that upper lip up, little lady, I told ya

[03:31.73] Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

[03:34.42] I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why

[03:38.20] We feel how we feel inside

[03:40.19] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby

[03:42.93] But I promise mama's gon' be alright.

[03:45.69] And if you ask me to

[03:46.65] Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird

[03:49.55] I'mma give you the world

[03:51.34] I'mma buy a diamond ring for you

[03:53.05] I'mma sing for you

[03:54.20] 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

[04:00.47] I'mma break that birdie's neck

[04:02.66] I'll go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya

[04:05.47] And make him eat every carat don't fuck with dad (ha ha).