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Yeah i know sometimes
things may not... always make sense to you right now
but hey, what'd daddy always tell you? straiten up little soldier
stiffen up that upper lip what you cryin' about?
you got me Hailie i know you miss your mom
and i know you miss your dad when i'm gone
but i'm tryin' to give you the life that i never had
i can see you sad even when you smile
even when you laugh i can see it in your eyes
deep inside, you wanna cry cuz you're scared
i ain't there? daddy's with you in your prayers no more cryin', wipe them tears
daddy's here, no more nightmares we gon' pull together through it
we gon' do it laynee, uncle's crazy ain't he
yeah but he loves you girl and you better know it
world we got in this world when it spins, when it swirls
when it whirls, when it twirls two little beautiful girls
lookin' puzzled, in a daze i know it's confusin' you
daddy's always on the move, mommy's always in the news
i try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it seems
the harder that i try to do that the more it backfires on me
all the things growing up as daddy that he had to see
daddy don't want you to see but you see just as much as he did
we did not plan it to be this way your mother and me
but things have got so bad between us i don't see us ever being together
ever again like we used to be when we was teenagers
but then of course everything always happens for a reason
i guess it was never meant to be but it's just something we have no control
over and that's what destiny is
well no more worries rest your head and go to sleep
maybe one day we'll wake up and this'll all just be a dream
chorus: now hush little baby don't you cry
everything's gonna be alright stiffen that upper lip up
little lady, i told ya daddy's gonna hold ya
through the night i know mommy's not here right now and we don't
know why we feel how we feel inside
it may seem a little crazy pretty baby
but i promise: momma's gonna be alright
it's funny i remember back one year when daddy had no
money mommy wrapped the christmas
presents up and stuck em' under the tree and said some of em' were from me
cuz daddy couldn't buy em' i'll never forget that christmas
i sat up the whole night cryin' cuz daddy felt like a bum
see daddy had a job but his job was to keep the food on the table
for you and mom and at the time
every house that we lived in either kept getting broken into and robbed
or shot up on the block and your mom was saving money for you in a
jar tryin' to start a piggy bank for you so
that you could go to college almost had a thousand dollars
till someone broke in and stole it and i know it hurt so bad it broke your momma's
heart and it seemed like everything was starting
to fall apart mom and dad was arguin' alot so momma
moved back on the traumas on a falt one bedroom appartment
and dad moved back to the other side of 8 mile on navara
and that's when daddy went to california with his cd
and met dr dre, and flew you and momma out to see me
but daddy had to work you and momma had to leave me
then you started to see me on the tv and momma didn't like it
and you an' laynee were too young to understand it
pappa was a rolling stone, momma developed a habit
and it all happened to fast for either one of us to grab it
i'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand
cuz all i ever wanted to do was make you proud now i'm sittin' in this empty house
just reminising lookin' at your baby pictures it just trips me out
to see how much you both have grown it's almost like your sisters now
wow, guess you pretty mucn are and daddy's still here
laynee i'm talking to you too daddy's still here
i like the sound of that cheer it's got a ring to it don' it
shh... momma's only gone for the moment Chorus
And if you ask me too daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird
i'm gon' give you the world i'm gon' buy a diamond ring for you
imma sing for you i'll do anything for you to see you smile
and if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine
imma break that birdy's neck i go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya
and make em eat every carat, don't *** with that