I know things may not Always make to you right now But hey, What daddy always you? Straighten up soldier up that upper lip What you crying You got me
Hailie I know you miss your mom and I know you 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 you laugh I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you to cry Cause scared, I ain't there? Daddy's with you in prayers No more crying, wipe them Daddy's here, no nightmares We gon' pull together it, we gon' do it Laney uncles crazy, he? Yeah but he loves you girl and you better it all we got in this world When it spins, when it it whirls, when it twirls Two little girls puzzled, in a daze I it's confusing you Daddy's on the move, mama's always on the news I try to keep you sheltered from it but it seems The harder that I try to do that, the 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 this way, your and me But things gotten so bad between us I don't see us ever being together ever Like we to be when we were teenagers But then of course everything always for a reason I guess it was meant to be But it's just something we have no control and that's what destiny is But no more worries, 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 lady, I told ya here to hold ya through the night 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 promise momma's gon' be
It's I remember back one year when had no money wrapped the Christmas presents up And stuck 'em under the and said some of 'em were from me daddy couldn't buy 'em I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night 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 every house we lived in Either getting broken into and robbed Or shot up on the and your mom was saving money for you in a jar Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you go to college Almost had a thousand till someone broke in and stole it And I know it so bad it broke your momma's heart And it seemed everything was just startin' to fall apart Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma moved On the Chalmers in the one bedroom apartment And dad moved back to the side of 8 Mile on Novara And that's daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre And you and momma 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 to young to understand it Papa was a rollin' stone, momma developed a 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 make you proud Now I'm sitting in empty house, just reminiscing at your baby pictures, it just trips me out To see how you both have grown, it's almost like you're sisters now Wow, guess you pretty much are and daddy's here I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here I the sound of that, yeah It's got a ring to it it? Shh, only 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 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 fuck with dad (ha ha)