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Yeah |
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I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now |
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But hey, what daddy always tell you? |
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Straighten up little soldier |
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Stiffen up that upper lip |
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What you crying about? |
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You got me |
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Hailie I know you miss your mom and I know you miss your dad |
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Well I' m gone but I' m trying to give you the life that I never had |
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I can see you' re sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh |
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I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you want to cry |
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Cuz you' re scared, I ain' t there? |
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Daddy' s with you in your prayers |
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No more crying, wipe them tears |
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Daddy' s here, no more nightmares |
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We gon' pull together through it, we gon' do it |
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Laney uncles crazy, aint he? |
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Yeah but he loves you girl and you better know it |
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We' re all we got in this world |
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When it spins, when it swirls |
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When it whirls, when it twirls |
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Two little beautiful girls |
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Lookin' puzzled, in a daze |
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I know it' s confusing you |
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Daddy' s always on the move, mamma' s always on the news |
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I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it seems |
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The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me |
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All the things growing up his daddy that he had to see |
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Daddy don' t want you to see but you see just as much as he did |
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We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me |
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But things have gotten so bad between us |
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I don' t see us ever being together ever again |
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Like we used to be when we was teenagers |
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But then of course everything always happens for a reason |
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I guess it was never meant to be |
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But it' s just something we have no control |
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over and that' s what destiny is |
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But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep |
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Maybe one day we' ll wake up and this will all just be a dream |
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Now hush little baby, don' t you cry |
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Everything' s gonna be alright |
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Stiffen that upperlip up little lady, i told ya |
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Daddy' s here to hold ya through the night |
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I know mommy' s not here right now and we don' t know why |
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We feel how we feel inside |
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It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby |
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But i promise momma' s gon' be alright |
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It' s funny |
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I remember back one year when daddy had no money |
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Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up |
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And stuck ' em under the tree and said some of ' em were from me |
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Cuz daddy couldn' t buy ' em |
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I' ll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying |
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Cuz daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job |
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But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom |
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And at the time every house that we lived in |
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Either kept getting broke into and robbed |
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Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving money for you in a jar |
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Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college |
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Almost had a thousand dollars till someone broke in and stole it |
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And I know it hurt so bad it broke your momma' s heart |
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And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall apart |
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Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma moved back |
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On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom apartment |
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And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara |
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And that' s when daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre |
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And flew you and momma out to see me |
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But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me |
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Then you started seeing daddy on the T. V. and momma didn' t like it |
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And you and Laney were to young to understand it |
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Papa was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit |
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And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it |
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I' m just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand |
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Cuz all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud |
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Now I' m sittin in this empty house, just reminiscing |
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Lookin' at your baby pictures, it just trips me out |
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To see how much you both have grown, |
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it' s almost like you' re sisters now |
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Wow, guess you pretty much are and daddy' s still here |
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Laney I' m talkin' to you too, daddy' s still here |
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I like the sound of that, yeah |
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It' s got a ring to it don' t it? |
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Shh, momma' s only gone for the moment |
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Now hush little baby, don' t you cry |
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Everything' s gonna be alright |
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Stiffen that upperlip up little lady, i told ya |
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Daddy' s here to hold ya through the night |
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I know mommy' s not here right now and we don' t know why |
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We feel how we feel inside |
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It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby |
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But i promise momma' s gon' be alright |
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And if you ask me too |
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Daddy' s gonna buy you a mockingbird |
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I' mma give you the world |
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I' mma buy a diamond ring for you |
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I' mma sing for you |
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I' ll do anything for you to see you smile |
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And if that mockingbird don' t sing and that ring don' t shine |
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I' mma break that birdies neck |
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I' d go back to the jewler who sold it to ya |
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And make him eat every carat don' t with dad haha |
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