I know things may not Always make sense to you now But hey, What daddy tell you? Straighten up soldier Stiffen up upper lip What you about? You got me
Hailie I know you miss your mom and I know you 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 when you smile, when you laugh I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you to cry Cause you're scared, I there? with you in your prayers No more crying, them tears here, no more nightmares We gon' pull together through it, we do it uncles crazy, ain't he? Yeah but he loves you girl and you know it We're all we got in this When it spins, it swirls When it whirls, it twirls Two little girls Lookin' puzzled, in a I know it's you Daddy's on the move, mama's always on the news I try to keep you from it but somehow it seems The harder that I try to do that, the more it on me All the growing up his daddy that he had to see Daddy don't want you to see but you see as much as he did We did not it to be this way, your mother and me But things have so bad between us I see us ever being together ever again Like we used to be we were teenagers But then of course everything always happens for a I guess it was meant to be But just something we have no control over and that's what destiny is But no worries, rest your head and go to sleep one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a dream
Now hush little baby, you cry Everything's gonna be Stiffen that upper lip up little lady, I ya Daddy's here to hold ya the night I know not here right now and we don't know why We fear how we feel It may seem a crazy, pretty baby But I momma's gon' be alright
It's I remember back one year when had no money Mommy wrapped the Christmas up And stuck 'em under the tree and some of 'em were from me Cause daddy buy 'em never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying Cause daddy like a bum, see daddy had a job But his job was to keep the food on the for you and mom And at the time every that we lived in Either kept getting into and robbed Or shot up on the block and your mom was money for you in a jar Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to Almost had a thousand till someone broke in and stole it And I know it hurt so bad it broke your momma's And it seemed like was just startin' to fall apart Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma moved On the Chalmers in the flat one apartment And dad moved back to the side of 8 Mile on Novara And that's when daddy went to with his CD and met Dr. Dre And you and momma 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 momma like it And you and Laney were to to understand it was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit And it all happened too fast for either one of us to it I'm just sorry you were and had to witness it first hand Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you Now I'm sitting in this empty house, reminiscing Lookin' at your pictures, it just trips me out To see how much you both have grown, it's like you're sisters now Wow, guess you pretty much are and daddy's still Laney I'm to you too, daddy's still here I like the of that, yeah It's got a ring to it it? Shh, only gone for the moment
And if you ask me too Daddy's gonna buy you a I'mma give you the I'mma buy a diamond for you sing for you I'll do for you to see you smile And if that mockingbird don't sing and that don't shine I'mma break that neck go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya And make him eat every carat fuck with dad (ha ha)