I know things may not Always sense to you right now But hey, What daddy tell you? Straighten up soldier up that upper lip What you about? You got me
I know you miss your mom and I know you miss your dad Well I'm but I'm trying to give you the life that I never had I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even you laugh I can see it in your eyes, inside you want to cry you're scared, I ain't there? Daddy's with you in prayers No crying, wipe them tears Daddy's here, no more We pull together through it, we gon' do it Laney uncles crazy, he? Yeah but he you girl and you better know it We're all we got in this it spins, when 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 sheltered it but somehow it seems The harder I try to do that, the more it backfires on me All the things up his daddy 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 have so bad between us I see us ever being together ever again Like we to be when we were teenagers But then of course everything 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 worries, rest your head and go to sleep Maybe one day wake up and this will all just be a dream
Now hush baby, don't you cry Everything's be alright Stiffen that upper lip up little lady, I ya Daddy's here to ya through the night I know not here right now and we don't know why We how we feel inside It may a little crazy, pretty baby But I promise momma's gon' be
funny I remember back one year when daddy had no Mommy wrapped the presents up And stuck 'em under the tree and some of 'em were from me Cause daddy buy 'em never forget that Christmas 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 time every house that we in Either kept getting broken and robbed Or up on the block 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 till broke in and stole it And I know it hurt so bad it broke momma's heart And it like everything was just startin' to fall apart Mom and dad was a lot so momma moved back On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom And dad moved back to the other side of 8 on Novara And that's when daddy went to California his CD and met Dr. Dre And you and momma out to see me But daddy had to work, you and had to leave me Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V. and didn't like it And you and Laney were to to understand it Papa was a rollin' stone, developed a habit And it all happened too for either one of us to grab it I'm just sorry you there and had to witness it first hand Cause all I ever to do was just make you proud Now I'm sitting in this empty house, just at your 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 Laney I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still I the sound of that, yeah It's got a to it don't it? Shh, momma's only for the moment
And if you ask me too gonna buy you a mockingbird I'mma give you the I'mma buy a ring for you I'mma for you I'll do for you to see you smile And if that mockingbird sing and that ring don't shine I'mma break that neck I'll go back to the jeweler who it to ya And make him eat every carat fuck with dad (ha ha)