MockingBird

Mockingbird - Eminem

Written by：Marshall Mathers/Luis Resto

Yeah

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 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

Cause 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 gon' pull together through it we gon' do it

Laney uncles 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 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 and me

But things have gotten so bad between us

I don't see us ever being together ever again

Like we used to be when we were teenagers

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 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 alright

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 fear how we feel inside

It may seem a little crazy pretty baby

But I promise momma'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 buy '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