I know sometimes may not always make sense to you right now But hey, what always tell you? Straighten up soldier Stiffen up that lip you crying about? 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 life that I had I can see you're sad, when you smile, even when you laugh I can see it in eyes, deep inside you want to cry you're scared, I ain't there? Daddy's with you in your No crying, wipe them tears Daddy's here, no more We gon' pull together through it, we do it Laney uncles crazy, 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 little girls puzzled, in a daze I it's confusing you always on the move, mamma'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 things growing up his daddy 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 have gotten 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 always happens for a I it was never meant to be But it's just something we have no control over and what destiny is But no worries, rest your head and go to sleep Maybe one day we'll wake up and this all just be a dream
Now little baby, don't you cry gonna be alright Stiffen that upper lip up little lady, I ya Daddy's here to hold ya through the I know mommy's not right now and we don't know why We fear how we feel It may a little crazy, pretty baby But I promise momma's be alright
funny I remember back one when daddy had no money Mommy the Christmas presents up And stuck 'em under the tree and said of 'em were from me Cause daddy buy 'em I'll forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying Cause felt 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 house we lived in Either kept getting broken into and Or shot up on the and your mom was saving money for you in a jar Tryna a piggy bank for you so you could go to college Almost had a thousand dollars til someone in and stole it And I know it hurt so bad it broke momma's heart And it like everything was just startin' to fall apart Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so moved back On the Chalmers in the one bedroom apartment And dad back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara And that's when daddy went to 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 Papa was a rollin' stone, momma a habit And it all happened too for either one of us to grab it I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first Cause all I 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, almost like you're sisters now Wow, you pretty much are and daddy's still here Laney I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still I like the of that, yeah got a ring to it don't it? Shh, momma's gone for the moment
And if you ask me too Daddy's gonna buy you a I'mma you the world I'mma buy a diamond for you sing for you I'll do anything for you to see you And if that mockingbird don't sing and ring don't shine I'mma that birdies neck go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya And him eat every carat don't fuck with dad (haha)