[00:02.77] Yeah [00:04.76] I know sometimes things may not [00:07.37] Always make sense to you right now [00:09.96] But hey, what daddy always tell you? [00:13.92] Straighten up little soldier [00:16.41] Stiffen up that upper lip [00:19.15] What you crying about? [00:20.94] You got me [00:22.28] Hailie, I know you miss your mom [00:23.85] And I know you miss your dad when I'm gone [00:25.69] But I'm trying to give you the life that I never had [00:28.12] I can see you're sad [00:29.48] Even when you smile [00:30.23] Even when you laugh [00:31.48] I can see it in your eyes [00:32.65] Deep inside, you wanna cry [00:34.23] 'Cause you're scared [00:34.98] I ain't there? [00:35.77] Daddy's with you in your prayers [00:36.95] No more crying [00:37.76] Wipe them tears [00:38.46] Daddy's here [00:39.05] No more nightmares [00:39.97] We gonna pull together through it [00:41.02] We gon' do it [00:41.99] Lainie, uncle's crazy ain't he? [00:43.53] Yeah, but he loves you girl and you better know it [00:45.65] We're all we got in this world [00:46.84] When it spins [00:47.68] When it swirls [00:48.33] When it whirls [00:49.12] When it twirls [00:49.84] Two little beautiful girls [00:51.30] Looking puzzled, in a daze [00:52.68] I know it's confusing you [00:53.97] Daddy's always on the move [00:55.52] Mama's always on the news [00:56.93] I try to keep you sheltered from it [00:58.22] But somehow it seems, the harder that I try to do that [01:00.81] The more it backfires on me [01:02.19] All the things, growing up [01:03.51] As daddy that he had to see [01:04.93] Daddy don't want you to see [01:06.37] But you see just as much as he did [01:07.85] We did not plan it to be this way [01:09.42] Your mother and me [01:10.53] But things have got so bad between us [01:12.18] I don't see us ever being together ever again [01:15.10] Like we used to be when was teenagers [01:17.00] But then of course [01:17.63] Everything always happens for a reason [01:19.97] I guess it was never meant to be [01:21.56] But it's just something [01:22.69] We have no control over [01:23.62] And that's what destiny is [01:25.18] But no more worries [01:26.48] Rest your head and go to sleep [01:27.66] Maybe one day we'll wake up [01:29.03] And this will all just be a dream [01:30.53] Now hush little baby don't you cry [01:33.74] Everything's gonna be alright [01:35.37] Stiffen that upper lip up little lady [01:37.85] I told ya, daddy's here to hold ya [01:40.19] Through the night [01:41.28] I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why [01:44.73] We fear how we feel inside [01:46.76] It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby [01:49.50] But I promise, Momma's gon' be alright [01:52.37] It's funny [01:53.58] I remember back one year when daddy had no money [01:56.11] Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up [01:57.77] And stuck 'em under the tree [01:58.90] And said some of them were from me [02:00.55] 'Cause daddy couldn't buy 'em [02:01.84] I'll never forget that Christmas [02:03.25] I sat up the whole night cryin' [02:04.67] 'Cause daddy felt like a bum [02:06.27] See daddy had a job [02:07.34] But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom [02:10.27] And at the time, every house that we lived in [02:12.67] Either kept getting broken into and robbed or shot up on the block [02:15.98] And your mom, was saving money [02:17.73] For you in a jar trying to start a piggy bank for you [02:20.33] So you can go to college [02:21.68] Almost had a thousand dollars [02:23.06] 'Til someone broke in and stole it [02:24.83] And I know it hurt so bad, it broke your mama's heart [02:27.47] And it seemed like everything was just starting to fall apart [02:30.12] Mom and dad was arguing a lot [02:32.16] So mama moved back on the Chalmers in the flat [02:34.50] One bedroom apartment [02:35.97] And dad moved back to the other side of 8 mile on Novarra [02:38.93] And that's when daddy went to California with his CD [02:41.66] And met Dr. Dre and flew you and Mama out to see me [02:44.46] But daddy had to work [02:45.71] You and mama had to leave me [02:47.29] Then you started seeing daddy on the TV [02:49.33] And mama didn't like it [02:50.82] And you and Lainie were too young to understand it [02:53.37] Papa was a rolling stone [02:54.52] Mama developed a habit [02:56.13] And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it [02:58.94] I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand [03:01.53] 'Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud [03:04.19] Now I'm sittin' in this empty house, just reminiscin' [03:07.29] Looking at your baby pictures it just trips me out [03:09.79] To see how much you both have grown [03:11.46] It's almost like your sisters now [03:12.96] Wow, I guess you pretty much are [03:15.13] And daddy's still here [03:16.24] Lainie I'm talking to you too [03:17.94] Daddy's still here [03:19.02] I like the sound of that, yeah [03:20.47] It's got a ring to it, don't it? [03:21.98] Shhh, mama's only gone for the moment [03:23.90] Now hush little baby don't you cry [03:26.94] Everything's gonna be alright [03:29.10] Stiffen that upper lip up little lady [03:31.47] I told ya daddy's here to hold ya [03:33.56] Through the night [03:34.77] I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why [03:38.47] We fear how we feel inside [03:40.43] It may seem a little crazy pretty baby [03:42.90] But I promise [03:44.13] Mama's gonna be alright [03:45.80] And if you ask me to [03:47.12] Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird [03:49.73] I'ma give you the world [03:51.64] I'ma buy a diamond ring for you [03:53.54] I'ma sing for you, I'll do anything for you to see you smile [03:57.31] And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine [04:00.96] I'ma break that birdy's neck [04:02.98] I'll go back to the jeweller who sold it to ya [04:05.66] And make him eat every carat [04:07.39] Don't fuck with dad, haha [04:09.77]