Eminem - Mockingbird lyrics

Album: Encore (2004)

Yea
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

Hailie I know you miss your mom & I know you miss your dad
Well I am gone but I am trying to give you the life that I never had
I can see you are sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh
I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you wanna cry
Cuz you are scared, I aint 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, ain´t he?
Yea but he loves you girl & you better know it
We are 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 is 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 & me
But things have gotten so bad between us
I do not 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 is just smth we´ve no control over & that is what destiny is
But no more worries, rest your head & go to sleep
Maybe one day we will wake up & this will all just be a dream

[Chorus]
Now hush little baby, don´t you cry
Everything is going to be alright
Stiffen that upperlip up little lady, i told ya
Daddy´s here to hold ya through the night
I know mommy´s not here right now & we do not 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 is funny
I remember back one yeahr when daddy had no money
Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up
And stuck em under the tree & said some of em were from me
Cuz daddy couldn´t buy em
I will 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 & mom
And at the time every house that we lived in
Either kept getting broke into & robbed
Or shot up on the block & 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 until someone broke in & 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 & 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 is when daddy went to California with his CD & met Dr. Dre
And flew you & momma out to see me
But daddy had to work, you & momma had to leave me
Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V. & momma didn´t like it
And you & 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 am just sorry you were there & had to witness it 1st hand
Cuz all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud
Now I am 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 is almost like you are sisters now
Wow, guess you pretty much are & daddy´s still here
Laney I am talkin´ to you too, daddy´s still here
I like the sound of that, yea
It is 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 going to buy you a mockingbird
I amma give you the world
I amma buy a diamond ring for you
I amma sing for you
I will do anything for you to see you smile
And if that mockingbird don´t sing & that ring don´t shine
I amma break that birdies neck
I would go back to the jewler who sold it to ya
And make him eat every carat don´t f*ck with dad (haha)

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