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Mockingbird

  1. Yeah
  2. I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now
  3. But hey, what daddy always tell you?
  4. Straighten up little soldier
  5. Stiffen up that upper lip
  6. What you crying about?
  7. You got me.
  8.  
  9. Hailie, I know you miss your mom, and I know you miss your dad
  10. When I'm gone but I'm trying to give you the life that I never had
  11. I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh
  12. I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you want to cry
  13. 'Cause you're scared, I ain't there?
  14. Daddy's with you in your prayers
  15. No more crying, wipe them tears
  16. Daddy's here, no more nightmares
  17. We gon' pull together through it, we gon' do it
  18. Lainie Uncle's crazy, ain't he?
  19. Yeah, but he loves you girl and you better know it
  20. We're all we got in this world
  21. When it spins, when it swirls
  22. When it whirls, when it twirls
  23. Two little beautiful girls
  24. Lookin' puzzled, in a daze
  25. I know it's confusing you
  26. Daddy's always on the move, mamma's always on the news
  27. I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it seems
  28. The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me
  29. All the things growing up as daddy, that he had to see
  30. Daddy don't want you to see but you see just as much as he did
  31. We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me
  32. But things have got so bad between us
  33. I don't see us ever being together ever again
  34. Like we used to be when we was teenagers
  35. But then of course everything always happens for a reason
  36. I guess it was never meant to be
  37. But it's just something we have no control over and that's what destiny is
  38. But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep
  39. Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a dream
  40.  
  41. Now hush little baby, don't you cry
  42. Everything's gonna be alright
  43. Stiffen that upper lip up, little lady, I told ya
  44. Daddy's here to hold ya through the night
  45. I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why
  46. We fear how we feel inside
  47. It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby
  48. But I promise mama's gon' be alright
  49.  
  50. (Ha)
  51. It's funny
  52. I remember back one year when daddy had no money
  53. Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up
  54. And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were from me
  55. 'Cause daddy couldn't buy 'em
  56. I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying
  57. 'Cause daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job
  58. But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom
  59. And at the time every house that we lived in
  60. Either kept getting broken into and robbed
  61. Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving money for you in a jar
  62. Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college
  63. Almost had a thousand dollars 'til someone broke in and stole it
  64. And I know it hurts so bad it broke your momma's heart
  65. And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall apart
  66. Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma moved back
  67. On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom apartment
  68. And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara
  69. And that's when daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre
  70. And flew you and momma out to see me
  71. But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me
  72. Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V. and momma didn't like it
  73. And you and Lainie were too young to understand it
  74. Papa was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit
  75. And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it
  76. I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand
  77. 'Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud
  78. Now I'm sitting in this empty house, just reminiscing
  79. Lookin' at your baby pictures, it just trips me out
  80. To see how much you both have grown, it's almost like you're sisters now
  81. Wow, I guess you pretty much are and daddy's still here
  82. Lainie I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here
  83. I like the sound of that, yeah
  84. It's got a ring to it don't it?
  85. Shh, mama's only gone for the moment
  86.  
  87. Now hush little baby, don't you cry
  88. Everything's gonna be alright
  89. Stiffen that upper lip up, little lady, I told ya
  90. Daddy's here to hold ya through the night
  91. I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why
  92. We fear how we feel inside
  93. It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby
  94. But I promise mama's gon' be alright
  95.  
  96. And if you ask me to
  97. Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird
  98. I'mma give you the world
  99. I'mma buy a diamond ring for you
  100. I'mma sing for you
  101. I'll do anything for you to see you smile
  102. And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine
  103. I'mma break that birdie's neck
  104. I'll go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya
  105. And make him eat every carat don't fuck with dad (ha ha)

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