I know things may not always make sense to you right now But hey, what daddy tell you? Straighten up soldier Stiffen up that lip you crying about? You got me
Hailie I you miss your mom and I know you miss your dad I'm gone but I'm trying to give you the life that I never had I can see you're sad, even when you smile, when you laugh I can see it in eyes, deep inside you want to cry Cause you're scared, I there? Daddy's with you in your No crying, wipe them tears Daddy's here, no nightmares We pull together through it, we gon' do it uncles crazy, ain't he? Yeah but he loves you and you better know it We're all we got in world When it spins, when it it whirls, when it twirls Two beautiful girls Lookin' puzzled, in a I know it's you Daddy's always on the move, mamma's on the news I try to keep you sheltered it but somehow it seems The harder I try to do that, the more it backfires on me All the things up his daddy that he had to see Daddy want you to see but you see just as much as he did We did not it to be this way, your mother and me But things have gotten so bad us I don't see us ever being ever again Like we used to be when we were But of course everything always happens for a reason I guess it was meant to be But it's just we have no control over and that's what destiny is But no more worries, rest your and go to sleep Maybe one day wake up and this will all just be a dream
Now hush little baby, you cry Everything's 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 little crazy, baby But I promise gon' be alright
It's I remember back one when daddy had no money Mommy wrapped the presents up And 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were from me daddy couldn't buy 'em I'll never forget that I sat up the whole night crying Cause daddy felt like a bum, see had a job But his job was to keep the food on the for you and mom And at the every house that we lived in kept 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 bank for you so you go to college Almost had a thousand dollars til someone in and stole it And I it hurt so bad it broke your momma's heart And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall Mom and dad was a lot so momma moved back On the Chalmers in the flat one apartment And dad moved back to the side of 8 Mile on Novara And when 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 had to leave me Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V. and momma didn't it And you and Laney were to young to it Papa was a rollin' stone, developed a habit And it all happened too for either one of us to grab it I'm sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand all I ever 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, almost like you're sisters now Wow, guess you much are and daddy's still here Laney I'm to you too, daddy's still here I like the of that, yeah got a ring to it don't it? Shh, only gone for the moment
And if you ask me too Daddy's buy you a mockingbird I'mma you the world buy a diamond ring for you I'mma 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 him eat every carat don't fuck with dad (haha)