[00:02.62] Yeah [00:04.66] I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now [00:09.50] But hey, what daddy always tell you? [00:13.17] Straighten up little soldier [00:15.73] Stiffen up that upper lip [00:18.46] What you crying about? [00:20.86] You got me [00:22.11] Hailie, I know you miss your mom [00:23.89] And I know you miss your dad when I'm gone [00:25.63] But I'm trying to give you the life that I never had [00:27.82] I can see you're sad [00:29.17] Even when you smile [00:30.22] Even when you laugh [00:31.23] I can see it in your eyes [00:32.54] Deep inside, you wanna cry [00:33.93] 'Cause you're scared [00:34.89] I ain't there? [00:35.70] Daddy's with you in your prayers [00:36.89] No more crying [00:37.66] Wipe them tears [00:38.47] Daddy's here [00:39.03] No more nightmares [00:39.84] We gonna pull together through it [00:40.94] We gon' do it [00:41.92] Laney, uncle's crazy ain't he? [00:43.37] Yeah but he loves you girl and you better know it [00:45.38] We're all we got in this world [00:46.80] When it spins [00:47.54] When it swirls [00:48.30] When it whirls [00:49.07] When it twirls [00:49.76] Two little beautiful girls [00:51.07] Looking puzzled, in a daze [00:52.47] I know it's confusing you [00:53.93] Daddy's always on the move [00:55.30] Mama's always on the news [00:56.63] I try to keep you sheltered from it [00:58.20] But somehow it seems, the harder that I try to do that [01:00.52] The more it backfires on me [01:02.23] All the things, growing up [01:03.54] As daddy that he had to see [01:04.84] Daddy don't want you to see [01:06.31] But you see just as much as he did [01:07.86] We did not plan it to be this way [01:09.48] Your mother and me [01:10.66] But things have got so bad between us [01:12.09] I don't see us ever being together ever again [01:14.57] Like we used to be when was teenagers [01:16.65] But then of course [01:17.88] Everything always happens for a reason [01:19.64] I guess it was never meant to be [01:21.42] But it's just something [01:22.52] We have no control over [01:23.68] And that's what destiny is [01:25.07] But no more worries [01:26.34] Rest your head and go to sleep [01:27.56] Maybe one day we'll wake up [01:28.95] And this will all just be a dream [01:30.54] Now hush little baby don't you cry [01:33.10] Everything's gonna be alright [01:35.36] Stiffen that upper lip up little lady [01:37.61] I told ya, daddy's here to hold ya [01:39.87] Through the night [01:41.13] I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why [01:44.58] We feel how we feel inside [01:46.71] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby [01:49.44] But I promise, Mama's gon' be alright [01:52.42] It's funny [01:53.51] I remember back one year when daddy had no money [01:55.96] Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up [01:57.76] And stuck them under the tree [01:59.05] And said some of them were from me [02:00.41] 'Cause daddy couldn't buy 'em [02:01.87] I'll never forget that Christmas [02:03.12] I sat up the whole night cryin' [02:04.59] 'Cause daddy felt like a bum [02:05.93] See daddy had a job [02:07.32] But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom [02:09.97] And at the time, every house that we lived in [02:12.69] Either kept getting broken into and robbed or shot up on the block [02:15.70] And your mom, was saving money [02:17.71] For you in a jar trying to start a piggy bank for you [02:20.33] So you can go to college [02:21.62] Almost had a thousand dollars [02:23.00] 'Till someone broke in and stole it [02:24.89] And I know it hurt so bad, it broke your mama's heart [02:27.17] And it seemed like everything was just starting to fall apart [02:30.06] Mom and dad was arguing a lot [02:32.14] So mama moved back on the Chalmers in the flat [02:34.51] One bedroom apartment [02:36.07] And dad moved back to the other side of 8 mile on Novarra [02:38.61] And that's when daddy went to California with his CD [02:41.32] And met Dr. Dre and flew you and Mama out to see me [02:44.14] But daddy had to work [02:45.74] You and mama had to leave me [02:47.11] Then you started seeing daddy on the TV [02:49.25] And mama didn't like it [02:50.78] And you and Laney were too young to understand it [02:53.13] Papa was a rolling stone [02:54.56] Mama developed a habit [02:55.95] And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it [02:58.79] I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand [03:01.52] 'Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud [03:04.16] Now I'm sittin' in this empty house, just reminiscin' [03:07.17] Looking at your baby pictures it just trips me out [03:09.75] To see how much you both have grown [03:11.56] It's almost like your sisters now [03:12.90] Wow, I guess you pretty much are [03:15.17] And daddy's still here [03:16.23] Laney I'm talking to you too [03:17.60] Daddy's still here [03:18.97] I like the sound of that yeah [03:20.45] It's got a ring to it, don't it? [03:21.92] Shhh, mama's only gone for the moment [03:23.90] Now hush little baby don't you cry [03:26.75] Everything's gonna be alright [03:28.81] Stiffen that upper lip up little lady [03:31.17] I told ya daddy's here to hold ya [03:33.41] Through the night [03:34.66] I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why [03:38.08] We feel how we feel inside [03:40.19] It may seem a little crazy pretty baby [03:42.97] But I promise [03:44.10] Mama's gonna be alright [03:45.93] And if you ask me to [03:47.11] Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird [03:49.41] I'mma give you the world [03:51.58] I'mma buy a diamond ring for you [03:53.40] I'mma sing for you, I'll do anything for you to see you smile [03:57.05] And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine [04:00.75] I'mma break that birdy's neck [04:02.95] I'll go back to the jeweller who sold it to ya [04:05.65] And make him eat every karat [04:07.58] Don't fuck with dad, haha [04:09.22]