I sometimes things may not Always make sense to you now But hey, What always tell you? up little soldier Stiffen up that lip What you about? You got me
Hailie I know you miss 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 you laugh I can see it in your eyes, inside you want to cry Cause scared, I ain't there? with you in your prayers No more crying, wipe tears Daddy's here, no nightmares We gon' pull together it, we gon' do it Laney uncles crazy, he? Yeah but he loves you and you better know it We're all we got in world When it spins, it swirls it whirls, when it twirls Two beautiful girls Lookin' puzzled, in a I know 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 this way, your and me But things have so bad between us I don't see us ever together ever again we used to be when we were teenagers But then of course everything happens for a reason I guess it was meant to be But it's just something we have no control over and that's what is But no worries, rest 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 Everything's gonna be that upper lip up little lady, I told ya Daddy's to hold ya through the night I know not here right now and we don't know why We fear how we feel It may seem a little crazy, pretty But I promise momma's be alright
It's I back one year when daddy had no money Mommy wrapped the Christmas up And stuck 'em under the tree and some of 'em were from me daddy couldn't buy 'em I'll forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying Cause felt like a bum, see daddy had a job But his job was to keep the food on the for you and mom And at the every house that we lived in kept 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 could go to 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 everything 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 of 8 Mile on Novara And when 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 momma had to me Then you started seeing on the T.V. and momma didn't like it And you and Laney were to young to it Papa was a rollin' stone, momma 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 hand Cause all I ever wanted to do was just you proud Now I'm sitting in this empty house, just at your baby pictures, it just trips me out To see how much you both have grown, almost like you're sisters now Wow, guess you pretty are and daddy's still here Laney I'm talkin' to you too, still here I like the of that, yeah It's got a ring to it it? Shh, only gone for the moment
And if you ask me too gonna buy you a mockingbird give you the world I'mma buy a ring for you sing for you I'll do anything for you to see you And if that mockingbird don't and that ring don't shine break that birdies neck I'll go back to the who sold it to ya And him eat every carat don't fuck with dad (ha ha)