I know sometimes may not Always make sense to you now But hey, What always tell you? up little soldier Stiffen up upper lip you crying about? You got me
Hailie I you miss your mom and I know you miss 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 you smile, even when you laugh I can see it in eyes, deep inside you want to cry you're scared, I ain't there? Daddy's you in your prayers No more crying, wipe them Daddy's here, no more We gon' pull together through it, we do it uncles crazy, ain't he? Yeah but he you girl and you better know it We're all we got in world When it spins, it swirls it whirls, when it twirls Two beautiful girls puzzled, in a daze I know it's you Daddy's on the move, mama's always on the news I try to keep you sheltered it but somehow it seems The harder I try to do that, the more it backfires on me All the things growing up his daddy he had to see Daddy don't want you to see but you see as much as he did We did not plan it to be way, your mother and me But have gotten so bad between us I don't see us ever being together again Like we to be when we were teenagers But then of everything always happens for a reason I it was never meant 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 baby, don't you cry gonna be alright Stiffen upper lip up little lady, I told ya Daddy's to hold ya through the night I mommy's not here right now and we don't know why We how we feel inside It may seem a little crazy, pretty But I promise gon' be alright
funny I remember back one year when had no money 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 felt 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 time every that we lived in Either kept getting broken into and Or shot up on the and your mom was saving money for you in a jar Tryna a piggy bank for you so you could go to college Almost had a thousand dollars someone broke in and stole it And I know it hurt so bad it your momma's heart And it seemed like everything was just startin' to apart Mom and dad was a lot so momma moved back On the Chalmers in the one bedroom apartment And dad moved back to the other side of 8 on Novara And that's when daddy went to with his CD and met Dr. Dre And flew you and out to see me But had to work, you and momma had to leave me Then you seeing daddy on the T.V. and momma didn't like it And you and were to young to understand 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 sorry you were there and had to it first hand Cause all I wanted to do was just make you proud Now I'm in this empty house, just reminiscing Lookin' at your baby pictures, it trips me out To see how much you have grown, it's almost like you're sisters now Wow, guess you pretty much are and 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 buy you a mockingbird give you the world I'mma buy a ring for you I'mma for you do anything for you to see you smile And if that don't sing and that ring don't shine I'mma break birdies neck I'll go back to the jeweler who it to ya And make him eat every carat fuck with dad (ha ha)