Mockingbird-Enisa

[00:22.364]Hailie I know you miss your mom and I know you miss your dad [00:25.277]Well I'm gone but I'm trying to give you the life that I never had [00:28.251]I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh [00:31.248]I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you want to cry [00:34.015]Cuz you're scared, I ain't there? [00:35.824]Daddy's with you in your prayers [00:37.041]No more crying, wipe them tears [00:39.104]Daddy's here, no more nightmares [00:39.898]We gon' pull together through it, we gon' do it [00:42.189]Laney uncles crazy, aint he? Yeah [00:45.240]We're all we got in this world [00:47.309]When it spins, when it swirls [00:48.095]When it whirls, when it twirls [00:49.980]Two little beautiful girls [00:51.177]Lookin' puzzled, in a daze [00:52.581]I know it's confusing you [00:54.186]Daddy's always on the move, mamma's always on the news [00:57.100]I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it seems [00:59.587]The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me [01:02.062]All the things growing up his daddy that he had to see [01:05.058]Daddy don't want you to see but you see just as much as he did [01:07.906]We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me [01:10.750]But things have gotten so bad between us [01:12.346]I don't see us ever being together ever again [01:14.964]Like we used to be when we was teenagers [01:16.785]But then of course everything always happens for a reason [01:20.065]I guess it was never meant to be [01:21.787]But it's just something we have no control [01:23.570]over and that's what destiny is [01:25.289]But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep [01:27.863]Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a dream [01:30.941]Now hush little baby, don't you cry [01:33.333]Everything's gonna be alright [01:35.581]Stiffen that upperlip up little lady, I told ya [01:38.662]Daddy's here to hold ya through the night [01:41.299]I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why [01:45.017]We feel how we feel inside [01:47.814]It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby [01:49.625]But i promise momma's gon' be alright [01:52.878]It's funny [01:53.631]I remember back one year when daddy had no money [01:56.214]Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up and stuck 'em under the tree [01:59.328]and said some of 'em were from me [02:00.716]Cuz daddy couldn't buy 'em [02:02.185]I'll never forget that Chris**as I sat up the whole night crying [02:05.021]Cuz daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job [02:07.485]But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom [02:10.603]And at the time every house that we lived in [02:12.391]Either kept getting broke into and robbed [02:14.041]Or shot up on the block [02:16.397]And your mom was saving money for you in a jar [02:19.334]Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college [02:22.011]Almost had a thousand dollars till someone broke in and stole it [02:24.797]And I know it hurt so bad it broke your momma's heart [02:27.535]And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall apart [02:30.456]Mom and dad was arguin' a lot [02:32.639]So momma moved back on the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom apar**ent [02:36.039]And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara [02:38.943]And that's when daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre [02:42.629]And flew you and momma out to see me [02:44.439]But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me [02:47.265]Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V. and momma didn't like it [02:50.789]And you and Laney were too young to understand it [02:53.243]Papa was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit [02:56.122]And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it [02:58.498]I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand [03:01.675]Cuz all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud [03:04.322]Now I'm sittin in this empty house, just reminiscing [03:07.304]Lookin' at your baby pictures, it just trips me out [03:10.175]To see how much you both have grown, [03:11.549]it's almost like you're sisters now [03:12.937]Wow, guess you pretty much are and daddy's still here [03:16.511]Laney I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here [03:18.574]I like the sound of that, yeah [03:20.331]It's got a ring to it don't it? [03:22.447]Shh, momma's only gone for the moment [03:24.073]Now hush little baby, don't you cry [03:27.363]Everything's gonna be alright [03:29.098]Stiffen that upperlip up little lady, I told ya [03:32.314]Daddy's here to hold ya through the night [03:34.868]I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why [03:38.522]We feel how we feel inside [03:40.425]It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby [03:43.049]But i promise momma's gon' be alright [03:46.136]And if you ask me too [03:47.549]Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird [03:49.963]I'mma give you the world [03:51.854]I'mma buy a diamond ring for you [03:53.672]I'mma sing for you [03:54.745]I'll do anything for you to see you smile [03:57.790]And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine [04:01.039]I'mma break that birdies neck [04:03.841]I'd go back to the jewler who sold it to ya [04:05.911]And make him eat every carat don't with dad (haha)