I know sometimes may not Always sense to you right now But hey, What daddy always you? Straighten up little Stiffen up upper lip What you about? You got me
I know you miss your mom and I know 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 scared, I ain't there? Daddy's with you in your No more crying, wipe tears Daddy's here, no more We gon' pull together 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 it spins, when it swirls When it whirls, when it Two little girls puzzled, in a daze I know it's you always on the move, mama's always on the news I try to keep you sheltered it but somehow it seems The harder that I try to do that, the it backfires on me All the things growing up his daddy he had to see don't want you to see but you see just 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 being ever again we used to be when we were teenagers But then of course everything always happens for a I guess it was meant to be But just 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 will all just be a dream
Now little baby, don't you cry gonna be alright Stiffen upper lip up little lady, I told ya Daddy's to hold ya through the night I mommy's not here right now and we don't know why We fear how we inside It may seem a little crazy, baby But I promise gon' be alright
funny I remember back one year when daddy had no wrapped the Christmas presents up And stuck 'em under the tree and said of 'em were from me Cause couldn't buy 'em I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night Cause daddy felt like a bum, see had a job But his job was to the food on the table for you and mom And at the time every house we lived in Either kept getting into and robbed Or shot up on the block and mom was saving money for you in a jar start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college Almost had a thousand dollars someone broke in and stole it And I know it so bad it broke your momma's heart And it seemed like everything was just startin' to apart Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so moved back On the in the flat one bedroom apartment And dad moved back to the 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 daddy had to work, you and had to leave me Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V. and momma didn't it And you and Laney to young to understand it Papa was a rollin' stone, momma a habit And it all happened too fast for one of us to grab it I'm just sorry you there and had to witness it first hand Cause all I ever wanted to do was just you proud Now I'm sitting in this empty house, just Lookin' at your 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 are and daddy's still here Laney I'm to you too, daddy's still here 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 buy you a mockingbird I'mma you the world I'mma buy a diamond for you sing for you I'll do for you to see you smile And if that mockingbird sing and that ring don't shine I'mma break birdies neck I'll go back to the who sold it to ya And make him eat carat don't fuck with dad (ha ha)