I know sometimes things may not always make to you right now But hey, what daddy always tell up little soldier Stiffen up upper lip What you crying You got me
Hailie I know you miss your mom and I 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, them tears Daddy's here, no more We gon' pull together through it, we do it Laney crazy, ain't he? Yeah but he loves you girl and you know it all we got in this world When it spins, when it it whirls, when it twirls Two little beautiful puzzled, in a daze I it's confusing you Daddy's always on the move, mamma's on the news I try to keep you sheltered it but somehow it seems 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 want you to see but you see just as much as he did We did not plan it to be this way, your and me But things gotten so bad between us I don't see us ever being ever again Like we to be when we were 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 control and that's what destiny is But no more worries, rest head and go to sleep Maybe one day we'll wake up and will all just be a dream
Now little baby, don't you cry gonna be alright Stiffen that upper lip up lady, I told ya Daddy's here to hold ya the night I know mommy's not here right now and we don't why We fear how we feel It may seem a crazy, pretty baby But I promise gon' be alright
It's I remember back one year when had no money Mommy wrapped the 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 night 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 house that we lived in Either getting broken into and robbed Or shot up on the block and 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 your momma's heart And it seemed 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 when daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre And flew you and out to see me But had to work, you and momma had to leave me Then you started daddy on the T.V. and momma didn't like it And you and Laney to young to understand it Papa was a rollin' stone, 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 in this empty house, just 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, you pretty much are and daddy's still here Laney I'm talkin' to you too, still here I the sound 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 anything for you to see you And if that mockingbird don't sing and that don't shine I'mma break birdies neck I'll go back to the who sold it to ya And make him eat every carat don't fuck dad (haha)