[ Intro ]mockingbird
lyrics
Yeah
I know sometimes things might not always make sense
to you right now
But hey, what daddy always tell you?
Straighten up little soldier
Stiffen up that upper lip
What'chu
crying about?
You got me..
[ Verse 1 ]
Hailie, I know you miss your mom
And I know you miss your
dad when I’m gone
But I’m trying to give you the life that I never had
I can see you’re 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 crying
Wipe them tears
Daddy’s here
No
more nightmares
We gonna pull together through it
We gon’ do it
Laini, uncle’s crazy ain’t he?
Yeah
but he loves you girl and you better know it
We’re all we got in this world
When it spins
When it swirls
When
it whirls
When it twirls
Two little beautiful girls
Looking puzzled, in a daze
I know it’s confusing you
Daddy’s
always on the move
Mama’s always on 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 me (to see?)
That we did not plan it to be this way
You’re
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 was teenagers
But then of coarse
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
But no more worries
Rest
your head and go to sleep
Maybe one day we’ll wake up
And this will all just be a dream
[ Chorus ]
Now hush little baby don’t you cry
Everythings gonna
be alright
Stiffen that upper lip up little lady
I told ya, daddy’s here to 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, Mama’s gonna be alright
[ Verse 2 ]
It’s funny
I remember back one year when daddy had
no money
Mommy wrapped the Christamas presents up
and stuck them under the tree
and said some of them were from me
Cos
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 dadday 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 trying to start a piggy bank for you
So you can 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 mama’s heart
And it seemed
like everything was just starting to fall apart
Mom and dads was arguing a lot
So mama moved back on the Chalmers and
the flat
One bedroom apartment
And dad moved back to the other side of 8 mile on Novarra
And that’s when daddy
went to California with his CD
And met Dr. Dre and flew you and Mama out to see me
But daddy had to work
You and
mama had to leave me
Then you started seeing daddy on the TV
And mama didn’t like it
And you and Laini were
too young to understand it
Papa was a rolling stone
mama developed a habit
and it all happened too 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 just make you proud
Now I’m sittin’ in this empty house, just reminiscin’
Looking 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, I
guess you pretty much are
And daddy’s still here
Laini I’m talking to you too
Daddy’s still here
I
like the sound of that, yeah
It’s got a ring to it, don’t it?
Shhh, mama’s only gone for the moment
[ Chorus ]
Now hush little baby don’t you cry
Everythings gonna
be alright
Stiffen that upper lip up little lady
I told ya daddy’s here to 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
Mama’s gonna be alright
[ Outro]
And if you ask me to,
Daddy’s
gonna buy you a mocking bird
I’ma give you the world
I’ma buy a diamond ring for you
I’ma sing
for you, I’ll do anything for you to see you smile
And if the mockingbird don’t sing and the ring don’t
shine
I’ma break that birdy’s neck
I’ll go back to the Jeweler who sold it to ya
And make him eat
every karat
Don’t fuck wit dad.
haha