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