Mockingbird

Maybe one day we'll wake up and this'll all just be a dream.

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 f*ck with dad.

Hailie 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.

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 a
And that's what destiny is.

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.

And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it.

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!

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're all we got in this world
When it spins, when it swirls
When it whirls, when it twirls.

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.

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.

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.