[ti:Mockingbird] [00:03.14]Yeah [00:04.26]I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now [00:09.12]But hey, what daddy always tell you? [00:12.89]Straighten up little soldier [00:15.56]Stiffen up that upper lip [00:18.24]What you crying about? [00:20.73]You got me [00:22.53]Hailie I know you miss your mom and I know you miss your dad [00:24.77]When Im gone but Im trying to give you the life that I never had [00:27.85]I can see youre sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh [00:30.22]I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you want to cry [00:33.76]Cuz youre scared, I aint there? [00:35.26]Daddys with you in your prayers [00:36.75]No more crying, wipe them tears [00:38.24]Daddys here, no more nightmares [00:39.49]We gon pull together through it, we gon do it [00:41.54]Laney uncles crazy, aint he? [00:43.16]Yeah but he loves you girl and you better know it [00:44.98]Were all we got in this world [00:46.66]When it spins, when it swirls [00:48.09]When it whirls, when it twirls [00:49.52]Two little beautiful girls [00:50.83]Lookin puzzled, in a daze [00:52.26]I know its confusing you [00:53.56]Daddys always on the move, mammas always on the news [00:56.43]I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it seems [00:58.73]The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me [01:00.91]All the things growing up his daddy that he had to see [01:03.97]Daddy dont want you to see but you see just as much as he did [01:07.47]We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me [01:10.21]But things have gotten so bad between us [01:12.20]I dont see us ever being together ever again [01:14.13]Like we used to be when we was teenagers [01:16.30]But then of course everything always happens for a reason [01:18.98]I guess it was never meant to be [01:21.22]But its just something we have no control over and thats what destiny is [01:24.33]But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep [01:26.90]Maybe one day well wake up and this will all just be a dream [01:29.57][Chorus] [01:30.13]Now hush little baby, dont you cry [01:32.99]Everythings gonna be alright [01:34.86]Stiffen that upperlip up little lady, i told ya [01:38.03]Daddys here to hold ya through the night [01:40.52]I know mommys not here right now and we dont know why [01:43.94]We fear how we feel inside [01:46.25]It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby [01:49.17]But i promise mommas gon be alright [01:52.17]Its funny [01:53.04]I remember back one year when daddy had no money [01:55.35]Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up [01:57.46]And stuck em under the tree and said some of em were from me [01:59.64]Cuz daddy couldnt buy em [02:01.51]Ill never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying [02:03.81]Cuz daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job [02:06.73]But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom [02:09.16]And at the time every house that we lived in [02:12.14]Either kept getting broke into and robbed [02:13.51]Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving money for you in a jar [02:17.95]Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college [02:21.00]Almost had a thousand dollars till someone broke in and stole it [02:24.11]And I know it hurt so bad it broke your mommas heart [02:26.47]And it seemed like everything was just startin to fall apart [02:29.27]Mom and dad was arguin a lot so momma moved back [02:32.44]On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom apartment [02:35.24]And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara [02:37.79]And thats when daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre [02:41.42]And flew you and momma out to see me [02:43.78]But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me [02:46.40]