I sometimes things may not make sense to you right now But hey, What daddy always tell Straighten up little Stiffen up upper lip What you crying You got me
I know you miss your mom and I know you miss your dad Well I'm gone but I'm trying to give you the life I never had I can see you're sad, even you smile, even when you laugh I can see it in your eyes, inside you want to cry you're scared, I ain't there? Daddy's you in your prayers No more crying, them tears Daddy's here, no nightmares We pull together through it, we gon' do it Laney crazy, ain't he? Yeah but he loves you girl and you better it all we got in this world When it spins, when it When it whirls, when it Two little girls puzzled, in a daze I it's confusing you Daddy's always on the move, mama's on the news I try to keep you sheltered from it but it seems The harder that I try to do that, the more it on me All the things growing up his daddy he had to see Daddy don't you to see but you see just as much as he did We did not plan it to be way, your mother and me But things have so bad between us I don't see us ever together ever again Like we used to be we were teenagers But then of course everything happens for a reason I it was never meant to be But it's just something we have no over and that's what destiny is But no more worries, your head and go to sleep Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all be a dream
Now hush little baby, you cry gonna be alright Stiffen upper lip up little lady, I told ya Daddy's here to hold ya the night I know mommy's not here right now and we know why We how we feel inside It may seem a crazy, pretty baby But I promise momma's gon' be
It's I remember back one year daddy had no money Mommy wrapped the presents up And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em from me Cause daddy buy 'em I'll never forget that I sat up the whole night crying Cause daddy felt a bum, see daddy had a job But his job was to keep the on the table for you and mom And at the time house that we lived in Either getting broken into and robbed Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving for you in a jar Tryna start a piggy for you so you could go to college Almost had a thousand dollars till someone in and stole it And I know it hurt so bad it broke your heart And it seemed everything was just startin' to fall apart Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so moved back On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom And dad moved back to the other of 8 Mile on Novara And that's daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre And flew you and out to see me But daddy had to work, you and momma had to me Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V. and didn't like it And you and were to young to understand it Papa was a rollin' stone, developed a habit And it all happened too fast for one of us to grab it I'm just you were there and had to witness it first hand Cause all I wanted to do was just make you proud Now I'm sitting in empty house, just reminiscing Lookin' at your pictures, it just trips me out To see how much you both have grown, it's almost like sisters now Wow, guess you pretty much are and still here Laney I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still I the sound of that, yeah It's got a ring to it it? Shh, momma's only for the moment
And if you ask me too Daddy's buy you a mockingbird give you the world I'mma buy a diamond for you I'mma for you do anything for you to see you smile And if that mockingbird don't sing and that don't shine I'mma break that birdies go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya And make him eat every don't fuck with dad (ha ha)