I know sometimes may not always make sense to you right now But hey, what daddy tell you? Straighten up soldier Stiffen up upper lip What you about? You got me
Hailie I know you 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 Cause you're scared, I ain't with you in your prayers No more crying, wipe them Daddy's here, no nightmares We gon' pull through it, we gon' do it uncles crazy, ain't he? Yeah but he you girl and you better know it We're all we got in this When it spins, when it When it whirls, when it Two little girls puzzled, in a daze I know confusing you always on the move, mamma's always on the news I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it The that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me All the things growing up his daddy 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, mother and me But have gotten so bad between us I see us ever being together ever again Like we used to be when we were But then of course everything always happens for a I guess it was never to be But it's just something we have no control over and what destiny is But no more worries, rest head and go to sleep Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a
Now hush little baby, you cry Everything's gonna be that upper lip up little lady, I told ya Daddy's here to ya through the night I know mommy's not here now and we don't know why We fear how we inside It may seem a little crazy, pretty But I promise gon' be alright
It's I back one year when daddy had no money Mommy the Christmas presents up And stuck 'em the tree 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 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 that we in kept getting broken into and robbed Or up on the block and your mom was saving money for you in a jar Tryna start a piggy for you so you could go to college Almost had a thousand dollars til broke in and stole it And I know it hurt so bad it broke your heart And it seemed like everything was just startin' to apart Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma moved On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom And dad moved 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 daddy had to work, you and had to leave me Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V. and momma like it And you and Laney were to young to it Papa was a rollin' stone, momma a habit And it all too fast for either one of us to grab it I'm sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand Cause all I wanted to do was just make you proud Now I'm sitting in this house, just reminiscing Lookin' at your baby pictures, it just me out To see how much you both have grown, it's almost you're sisters now Wow, guess you pretty are and daddy's still here I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here I like the of that, yeah It's got a to it don't it? Shh, only gone for the moment
And if you ask me too Daddy's gonna buy you a I'mma give you the I'mma buy a ring for you sing for you I'll do for you to see you smile And if mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine break that birdies neck I'll go to the jeweler who sold it to ya And make him eat every don't fuck with dad (haha)