I know sometimes may not Always make to you right now But hey, What daddy always you? Straighten up little Stiffen up upper lip you crying about? You got me
Hailie I know you miss your mom and I you miss your dad Well I'm gone but I'm trying to give you the life that I had I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even you laugh I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you to cry Cause you're scared, I ain't Daddy's with you in prayers No more crying, wipe tears Daddy's here, no more We gon' pull through it, we gon' do it Laney crazy, ain't he? Yeah but he loves you girl and you know it all we got in this world When it spins, it swirls When it whirls, it twirls Two little girls Lookin' puzzled, in a I know it's you Daddy's on the move, mama's always on the news I try to keep you from it but somehow it seems The harder that I try to do that, the more it on me All the things growing up his that he had to see Daddy don't want you to see but you see just as as he did We did not it to be this way, your mother and me But things have so bad between us I don't see us ever being together again Like we used to be when we were But then of course everything always for a reason I guess it was meant to be But it's just something we no control over and that's what destiny is But no worries, rest your head and go to sleep Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a
Now hush baby, don't you cry gonna be alright Stiffen that upper lip up lady, I told ya Daddy's here to hold ya through the I know not here right now and we don't know why We fear how we feel It may a little crazy, pretty baby But I momma's gon' be alright
funny I remember back one year when had no money Mommy the Christmas presents up And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were me daddy couldn't buy 'em I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole crying Cause daddy like a bum, see daddy had a job But his job was to the food on the table for you and mom And at the every house that we lived in Either kept getting broken and robbed Or shot up on the and your mom was saving money for you in a jar start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college Almost had a dollars till someone broke in and stole it And I know it hurt so bad it broke your heart And it seemed like everything was startin' to fall apart Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so moved back On the Chalmers in the flat one apartment And dad moved back to the other of 8 Mile on Novara And that's when daddy went to California his CD and met Dr. Dre And flew you and out to see me But daddy had to work, you and momma had to me Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V. and didn't like it And you and were to young to understand it Papa was a stone, momma developed a habit And it all happened too fast for one of us to grab it I'm just sorry you were and had to witness it first hand Cause all I wanted to do was just make you proud Now I'm sitting in this empty house, just 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 pretty are and daddy's still here Laney I'm talkin' to you too, still here I like the 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 you the world buy a diamond ring for you I'mma for you do anything for you to see you smile And if mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine I'mma break that neck I'll go to the jeweler who sold it to ya And make him eat carat don't fuck with dad (ha ha)