I know things may not Always make sense to you now But hey, What daddy always tell Straighten up soldier Stiffen up upper lip What you about? You got me
Hailie I know you your mom and I know 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, even when you smile, even when you I can see it in your eyes, 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 through it, we gon' do it Laney uncles crazy, he? but he loves you girl and you better know it We're all we got in this When it spins, when it When it whirls, when it Two little girls Lookin' puzzled, in a I it's confusing you Daddy's always on the move, mama's always on the I try to keep you from it but somehow it seems The harder I try to do that, the more it backfires on me All the things growing up his 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 again Like we used to be when we teenagers But then of course everything always for a reason I guess it was never to be But just something we have no control over and that's what destiny is But no more worries, rest your head and go to Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all be a dream
Now hush little baby, you cry Everything's be alright Stiffen upper lip up little lady, I told ya Daddy's to hold ya through the night I know mommy's not right now and we don't know why We how we feel inside It may a little crazy, pretty baby But I promise momma's be alright
funny I remember back one year when daddy had no Mommy wrapped the Christmas up And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em from me daddy couldn't buy 'em I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the night crying daddy 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 broken into and robbed Or shot up on the block and mom was saving money for you in a jar Tryna start a piggy for you so you could go to college had a thousand dollars till 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 moved On the Chalmers in the flat one apartment And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on And that's when daddy 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 fast for either one of us to it I'm just you were there and had to witness it first hand Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you Now I'm sitting in empty house, just reminiscing 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 pretty much are and still here Laney I'm talkin' to you too, still here 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 gonna buy you a mockingbird I'mma give you the I'mma buy a diamond for you I'mma for you do anything for you to see you smile And if that don't sing and that ring don't shine I'mma that birdies neck I'll go to the jeweler who sold it to ya And make him eat every carat don't with dad (ha ha)