I know sometimes things may not always make to you right now But hey, what always tell you? up little soldier Stiffen up that lip you crying 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 that I had I can see you're sad, when you smile, even when you laugh I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you to cry Cause scared, I ain't there? with you in your prayers No crying, wipe them tears Daddy's here, no nightmares We gon' pull together through it, we do it Laney 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 When it whirls, it twirls Two little beautiful puzzled, in a daze I it's confusing 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 that I try to do that, the it backfires on me All the growing up his daddy that he had to see Daddy don't 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 have gotten so bad between us I don't see us ever being together ever Like we used to be we were teenagers But then of course always happens for a reason I guess it was never to be But it's just something we have no control over and that's destiny is But no worries, rest your head and go to sleep Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all be a dream
Now little baby, don't you cry gonna be alright Stiffen that lip up little lady, I told ya here to hold ya through the night I know mommy's not right now and we don't know why We fear how we feel It may seem a crazy, pretty baby But I promise momma's gon' be
funny I back one year when daddy had no money Mommy wrapped the Christmas up And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em from me Cause daddy buy 'em I'll never that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job But his job was to the food on the table for you and mom And at the time house that we lived in Either kept getting broken and robbed Or shot up on the block and mom was saving money for you in a jar Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to 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 arguin' a lot so moved back On the in the flat one bedroom apartment And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on 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 had to leave 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 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 baby pictures, it trips me out To see how much you both have grown, it's almost like you're now Wow, guess you pretty much are and 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, momma's only 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 do anything for you to see you smile And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring shine I'mma break birdies neck I'll go to the jeweler who sold it to ya And make him eat every carat don't fuck dad (haha)