I know things may not always make sense to you right now But hey, what daddy tell you? Straighten up little Stiffen up upper lip What you crying 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 life 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 you're scared, I there? Daddy's with you in prayers No more crying, wipe tears Daddy's here, no nightmares We gon' pull through it, we gon' do it Laney uncles crazy, he? but he loves you girl and you better know it We're all we got in this When it spins, when it When it whirls, it twirls Two little beautiful puzzled, in a daze I it's confusing you Daddy's always on the move, mamma's on the news I try to you sheltered from it but somehow it seems The harder that I try to do that, the more it on me All the things up his daddy that he had to see don't want you to see but you see just as much as he did We did not plan it to be this way, mother and me But things have so bad between us I don't see us being together ever again we used to be when we were teenagers But then of everything always happens for a reason I guess it was never to be But just something we have no control over and that's what destiny is But no more worries, rest your head and go to Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a
Now hush little baby, you cry gonna be alright Stiffen that upper lip up lady, I told ya Daddy's here to hold ya the night I know mommy's not here now and we don't know why We fear how we inside It may seem a crazy, pretty 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 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were from me daddy couldn't buy 'em I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the night crying Cause daddy felt a bum, see daddy had a job But his job was to keep the on the table for you and mom And at the time every house that we in Either kept broken into and robbed Or shot up on the block and mom was saving money for you in a jar Tryna start a bank for you so you could go to college Almost had a dollars til someone broke in and stole it And I know it so bad it broke your momma's heart And it seemed everything was just startin' to fall apart Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so moved back On the Chalmers in the one bedroom apartment And dad back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara And that's when went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre And you and momma out to see me But daddy had to work, you and momma had to me Then you seeing daddy on the T.V. and momma didn't like it And you and Laney were to young to it Papa was a rollin' stone, momma 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 wanted to do was just you proud Now I'm in this empty house, just reminiscing Lookin' at baby pictures, it just trips me out To see how much you both have grown, it's almost like you're now Wow, guess you much are and daddy's still here I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here I the sound of that, yeah It's got a ring to it it? Shh, momma's only gone for the
And if you ask me too Daddy's gonna buy you a I'mma you the world buy a diamond ring for you I'mma for you do anything for you to see you smile And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring shine I'mma break birdies neck I'll go to the jeweler who sold it to ya And him eat every carat don't fuck with dad (haha)