I sometimes things may not Always sense to you right now But hey, daddy always tell you? Straighten up soldier up that upper lip What you crying You got me
Hailie I know you miss your mom and I you miss your dad Well I'm gone but I'm trying to give you the 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 with you in your prayers No more crying, wipe tears Daddy's here, no more We gon' pull together it, we gon' do it Laney crazy, ain't he? but he loves you girl and you better know it We're all we got in world When it spins, it swirls When it whirls, it twirls Two beautiful girls puzzled, in a daze I it's confusing you Daddy's always on the move, always on the news I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it 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 plan it to be way, your mother and me But things have gotten so bad us I see us ever being together ever again we used to be when we were teenagers But then of everything always happens for a reason I it was never meant to be But it's just we have no control over and that's what destiny is But no worries, rest your head and go to sleep Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a
Now hush little baby, you cry Everything's gonna be Stiffen that upper lip up lady, I told ya here to hold ya through the night I mommy's not here right now and we don't know why We how we feel inside It may seem a little crazy, pretty But I promise momma's be alright
funny I remember back one year daddy had no money Mommy the Christmas presents up And stuck 'em the tree and said some of 'em were from me Cause daddy buy 'em I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole crying Cause daddy like 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 every that we lived in kept getting broken into and robbed Or up on the block and your 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 till broke 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 in the flat one bedroom apartment And dad moved to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara And when daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre And you and momma 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 didn't like it And you and were to young 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 there and had to witness it first Cause all I ever wanted to do was just you proud Now I'm sitting in empty house, just reminiscing Lookin' at your baby pictures, it just me out To see how much you both have grown, almost like you're sisters now Wow, guess you pretty much are and daddy's here Laney I'm to you too, daddy's still here I the sound of that, yeah It's got a ring to it it? Shh, momma's only gone for the
And if you ask me too Daddy's buy you a mockingbird give you the world I'mma buy a ring for you I'mma for you I'll do anything for you to see you And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't I'mma that birdies neck I'll go back to the jeweler who it to ya And him eat every carat don't fuck with dad (ha ha)