I know sometimes things may not always make to you right now But hey, what daddy tell you? up little 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 to give you the life that I never had I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even when you I can see it in your eyes, deep you want to cry Cause you're scared, I ain't with you in your prayers No more crying, wipe them Daddy's here, no more We gon' pull through it, we gon' 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, when it When it whirls, it twirls Two little girls puzzled, in a daze I it's confusing you Daddy's on the move, mamma's always on the news I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it The that I try to do that, the more 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 just as as he did We did not plan it to be way, your mother and me But things have gotten so bad 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 meant to be But it's something we have no control 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 little baby, don't you cry Everything's be alright Stiffen that upper lip up lady, I told ya Daddy's here to hold ya through the I mommy's not here right now and we don't know why We how we feel inside It may a little crazy, pretty baby But I momma's gon' be alright
It's I remember one year when daddy had no money wrapped the Christmas presents up And 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were from me daddy couldn't 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 broken into and robbed Or shot up on the block and your mom was money for you in a jar Tryna start a bank for you so you could go to college Almost had a dollars til someone broke in and stole it And I know it hurt so bad it broke your momma's And it seemed like was just startin' to fall apart Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma back On the Chalmers in the one bedroom apartment And dad moved back to the other side of 8 on Novara And that's when went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre And you and momma out to see me But had to work, you and momma had to leave me you started 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 happened too for either one of us to grab it I'm just sorry you there and had to witness it first hand Cause all I ever to do was just make you proud Now I'm sitting in this empty house, reminiscing at your baby pictures, it just 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 daddy's still 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, 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 ring don't I'mma break that birdies go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya And make him eat every carat don't with dad (haha)