I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you now But hey, daddy always tell you? Straighten up soldier Stiffen up upper lip What you about? You got me
Hailie I know you miss your mom and I know you your dad Well I'm gone but I'm trying to give you the that I never had I can see you're sad, even when you smile, when you laugh I can see it in your eyes, inside you want to cry Cause scared, I ain't there? Daddy's with you in prayers No more crying, them tears Daddy's here, no more We gon' together through it, we gon' do it Laney crazy, ain't he? but he loves you girl and you better know it We're all we got in world When it spins, when it it whirls, when it twirls Two beautiful girls Lookin' puzzled, in a I know confusing you Daddy's on the move, mamma's always on the news I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it The that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me All the things growing up his that he had to see Daddy don't you to see but you see just as much as he did We did not it to be this way, your mother and me But things gotten so bad between us I don't see us ever being together ever Like we used to be we were teenagers But then of everything always happens for a reason I guess it was never to be But it's just something we have no control over and that's destiny is But no more worries, rest your head and go to Maybe one day we'll wake up and this all just be a dream
Now little baby, don't you cry Everything's gonna be Stiffen that upper lip up lady, I told ya Daddy's to hold ya through the night I know mommy's not here right now and we don't why We how we feel inside It may seem a little crazy, baby But I momma's gon' be alright
It's I remember back one year when daddy had no wrapped the Christmas presents up And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were me Cause couldn't buy 'em I'll never forget that I sat up the whole night crying Cause daddy felt like a bum, see had a job But his job was to keep the on the table for you and mom And at the every house that we lived in kept getting broken into and robbed Or shot up on the block and mom was saving money for you in a jar start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college Almost had a thousand dollars til someone broke in and it And I know it hurt so bad it broke your heart And it like everything was just startin' to fall apart Mom and dad was a lot so momma moved back On the in the flat one bedroom apartment And dad moved back to the other 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 seeing daddy on the T.V. and momma didn't like it And you and Laney were to to understand it was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit And it all happened too fast for either one of us to it I'm just you were there and had to witness it first hand Cause all I ever to do was just make you proud Now I'm in this empty house, just reminiscing Lookin' at your pictures, it just trips me out To see how much you both have grown, almost like you're sisters now Wow, guess you much are and daddy's still here Laney I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still I the sound of that, yeah got a ring to it don't it? Shh, momma's only for the moment
And if you ask me too Daddy's gonna buy you a I'mma give you the I'mma buy a ring for you sing for you I'll do anything for you to see you And if that mockingbird don't sing and that don't shine I'mma break that neck I'll go back to the who sold it to ya And him eat every carat don't fuck with dad (haha)