I know things may not Always make to you right now But hey, What always tell you? Straighten up soldier Stiffen up upper lip What you about? You got me
Hailie I know you miss 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 ain't Daddy's you in your prayers No more crying, wipe them Daddy's here, no more We gon' pull together through it, we do it Laney uncles crazy, he? Yeah but he you girl and you better know it all we got in this world When it spins, it swirls When it whirls, when it Two little beautiful Lookin' puzzled, in a I know confusing you Daddy's always on the move, always on the news I try to keep you from it but somehow it seems The harder that I try to do that, the it backfires on me All the things 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 plan it to be this way, your and me But things have so bad between us I don't see us ever together ever again Like we used to be when we teenagers But then of course everything happens for a reason I guess it was never to be But it's just something we have no over and that's what destiny is But no more worries, rest your and go to sleep Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all be a dream
Now hush baby, don't you cry gonna be alright Stiffen upper lip up little lady, I told ya Daddy's to hold ya through the night I know mommy's not here now and we don't know why We how we feel inside It may seem a crazy, pretty baby But I promise momma's be alright
funny I remember back one year daddy had no money wrapped the Christmas presents up And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em from me daddy couldn't buy 'em I'll never that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying Cause daddy felt a bum, see daddy had a job But his job was to the food on the table for you and mom And at the every house that we lived in Either getting broken into and robbed Or shot up on the block and your mom was money for you in a jar Tryna start a piggy for you so you could go to college Almost had a thousand till someone broke in and stole it And I know it so bad it broke your momma's heart And it seemed like was just startin' to fall apart Mom and dad was a lot so momma moved back On the in the flat one bedroom apartment And dad moved back to the other side of 8 on Novara And that's when daddy 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 seeing daddy on the T.V. and momma didn't like it And you and Laney were to to understand it was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit And it all too fast for either one of us to grab it I'm just you were there and had to witness it first hand Cause all I ever wanted to do was just you proud Now I'm sitting in this empty house, just Lookin' at baby pictures, it just trips me out To see how much you have grown, it's almost like you're sisters now Wow, guess you much are and daddy's still here I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here I the sound of that, yeah got a ring to it don't it? Shh, momma's gone for the moment
And if you ask me too gonna buy you a mockingbird give you the world I'mma buy a diamond 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 birdies I'll go to the jeweler who sold it to ya And make him eat every carat don't with dad (ha ha)