I know sometimes may not Always make sense to you now But hey, What always tell you? up little soldier Stiffen up that lip you crying about? You got me
Hailie I know you miss mom and I know you miss your dad Well I'm but I'm trying to give you the life that I never had I can see you're sad, when you smile, even when you laugh I can see it in eyes, deep inside you want to cry Cause you're scared, I there? with you in your prayers No more crying, wipe tears Daddy's here, no more We gon' pull together through it, we do it uncles crazy, ain't he? Yeah but he loves you girl and you know it We're all we got in world it spins, when it swirls When it whirls, when it Two little girls puzzled, in a daze I it's confusing you Daddy's always on the move, mama's on the news I try to keep you from 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 Daddy don't want you to see but you see as much as he did We did not plan it to be way, your mother and me But things have gotten so bad us I don't see us ever being together again Like we used to be when we teenagers But of course everything always happens for a reason I it was never meant to be But it's just something we have no control over and that's what is But no more worries, rest head and go to sleep one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a dream
Now hush baby, don't you cry Everything's gonna be that upper lip up little lady, I told ya Daddy's here to hold ya 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, baby But I promise gon' be alright
funny I remember one year when daddy had no money Mommy wrapped the presents up And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were me Cause daddy buy 'em never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying Cause daddy felt 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 Either kept getting into and robbed Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving for you in a jar Tryna start a bank for you so you could go to college Almost had a thousand dollars till broke in and stole it And I know it so bad it broke your momma's heart And it seemed like everything was startin' to fall apart Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so moved back On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom And dad back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara And that's 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, developed a habit And it all too fast for either one of us to grab 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 in this empty house, just reminiscing Lookin' at your baby pictures, it just me out To see how you both have grown, it's 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 the sound of that, yeah got a ring 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 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 break that birdies neck I'll go back to the jeweler who it to ya And make him eat every carat don't fuck dad (ha ha)