MOCKINGBIRD

YEAH, I KNOW SOMETIMES THINGS MAY NOT ALWAYS MAKE SENSE TO YOU RIGHT NOW, BUT HEY, WHAT DADDY ALWAYS TELL YOU? STRAIGHTEN UP LITTLE SOLIDER, STIFFEN UP THAT UPPER LIP. WHAT YOU CRIN' ABOUT? YOU GOT ME. HAILIE I KNOW YOU MISS YOUR MOM, AND I KNOW YOU MISS YOUR DAD WHEN I'M GONE BUT I'M TRYIN' 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 WANNA CRY CAUSE YOU'RE SCARED. I AIN'T THERE, DADDY'S WITH YOU IN YOUR PRAYERS NO MORE CRYIN' WIPE THEM TEARS DADDY'S HERE NO MORE NIGHTMARES. WE GONNA PULL TOGETHER THROUGH IT WE GONNA DO IT LAINIE UNCLE'S CRAZY AIN'T 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, MAMA'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 GROWIN' UP AS 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 GOT SO BAD BETWEEN US I DON'T SEE US EVER BEING TOGETHER EVER AGAIN. LIKE WE USED TO BE LIKE WHEN WE WAS TEENAGERS BUT THEN OF COURSE EVERYTHING ALWAYS HAPPEN FOR REASON. I GUESS IT WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE BUT IT'S JUST SOMETHINGS 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. NOW HUSH LITTLE BABY DON'T YOU CRY EVERYTHING'S GONNA BE ALL RIGHT 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, MAMA'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, CAUSE DADDY COULDN'T BUT 'EM I'LL NEVER FORGET THAT CHRISTMAS I SAT UP THE WHOLE NIGHT CRYING. CAUSE 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 BROKEN INTO AND ROBBED OR SHOT UP ON THE BLOCK AND YOUR MOM, WAS SAVING MONEY FOR YOU IN A JAR TRYING TO START A PIGGY BANK FOR YOU SO YOU COULD GO TO COLLEGE. ALMOST HAD A THOUSAND DOLLARS TIL SOMEONE BROKE IN AND STOLE IT AND I KNOW IT HURT SO BAD IT BROKE YOUR MAMMA'S HEART. AND IT SEEMED LIKE EVERYTHING WAS JUST STARTING TO FALL APART MOM AND DAD WAS ARGUING A LOT SO MAMA MOVED BACK ON TO CHALMERS IN A 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 AMD MAMA OUT TO SEE ME BUT DADDY HAD TO WORK, YOU AND MAMA HAD TO LEAVE ME THEN YOU STARTED SEEING DADDY ON THE TV AND MAMA DIDN'T LIKE IT AND YOU AND LAINNIE WERE TOO YOUNG TO UNDERSTAND IT THAT PAPA WAS A ROLLING STONE, MAMA 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 CAUSE ALL I EVER WANTED TO DO WAS JUST MAKE YOU PROUD. NOW I'M SITTIN' IN THIS EMPTY HOUSE JUST REMINISCING LOOKING 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, I GUESS YOU PRETTY MUCH ARE AND DADDY'S STILL HERE LAINNIE I'M TALKING TO YOU TOO, DADDY'S STILL HERE I LIKE THE SOUND OF THAT, YEAH IT'S GOT A RING TO IT DON'T IT SSSSHHH, MAMA'S ONLY GONE FOR THE MOMENT. NOW HUSH LITTLE BABY DON'T YOU CRY EVERYTHING'S GONNA BE ALL RIGHT 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, MAMA'S GON' BE ALRIGHT. AND IF YOU ASK ME TO, DADDY'S GONNA BUY YOU MOCKING BIRD IMA' GIVE YOU THE WORLD, IMA' BUY A DIAMOND RING FOR YOU, IMA SING FOR YOU I'LL DO ANYTHING FOR YOU TO SEE YOU SMILE. AND IF THAT MOCKING BIRD DON'T SING AND THAT RING DON'T SHINE I'MA BREAK THAT BIRDIE'S NECK, I'LL GO BACK TO THE JEWELER WHO SOLD IT TO YA AND MAKE HIM EAT EVERY CARAT DON'T FUCK WITH DAD.