I sometimes things may not Always make to you right now But hey, What always tell you? Straighten up soldier Stiffen up upper lip What you about? You got me
Hailie I you miss your mom and I know you miss your dad Well I'm gone but I'm trying to give you the life I never had I can see sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh I can see it in your eyes, deep you want to cry you're scared, I ain't there? Daddy's with you in your No crying, wipe them tears here, no more nightmares We gon' pull together through it, we do it Laney crazy, ain't 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 beautiful girls puzzled, in a daze I know confusing you Daddy's always on the move, always 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 growing 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 it to be this way, your mother and me But things have gotten so bad us I don't see us ever together ever again Like we used to be we were teenagers But of course everything always happens for a reason I guess it was never to be But it's just we have no control over 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 will all be a dream
Now little baby, don't you cry Everything's be alright Stiffen that upper lip up little lady, I ya Daddy's here to hold ya through the I mommy's not here right now and we don't know why We how we feel inside It may seem a crazy, pretty baby But I promise gon' be alright
It's I remember back one year when had no money wrapped the Christmas presents up And stuck 'em under the tree and some of 'em were from me Cause daddy buy 'em never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying Cause daddy 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 time every that we lived in Either kept getting broken 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 dollars till someone broke in and stole it And I know it hurt so bad it your momma's heart And it seemed like everything was just to fall apart Mom and dad was a lot so momma moved back On the in the flat one bedroom 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 daddy had to work, you and had to leave me Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V. and didn't like it And you and Laney were to to understand it Papa was a stone, momma developed a habit And it all happened too fast for one of us to grab it I'm just you were there and had to witness it first hand Cause all I wanted to do was just make you proud Now I'm in this empty house, just reminiscing Lookin' at your pictures, it just trips me out To see how much you both have grown, it's almost you're sisters now Wow, you pretty much are and daddy's still here I'm talkin' 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 gonna buy you a give you the world I'mma buy a diamond for you sing for you I'll do anything for you to see you And if mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine I'mma break 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)