Enisa - Mockingbird

Hailey, 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, uncle's crazy, ain't he?

Yeah

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

That 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

Things have gotten so bad between us

I don't see us ever being together ever again

Like we used to be when we was teenagers

Then of course everything always happens for a reason

I guess it was never meant to be

That's just something we have no control over

And that's what destiny is

No more worries, rest your head and go to sleep

Maybe one day we'll wake up, these 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 you

Daddy's here to hold you

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

Job 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

Tryna 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 momma's heart

And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall apart

Mom and dad was arguin' a lot

So momma moved back on the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom apartment

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 and momma out to see me

But daddy had to work

You and momma had to leave me

Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V and momma didn't like it

And you and Laney were to young to understand it

Papa was a rollin' stone

Momma developed a habit

Happened all too fast for either one of us to grab it

I'm just sorry you were there

Had to witness it first hand

'Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud

Now I'm sitting 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's almost like you're sisters now

Guess you pretty much are and daddy's still here

Laney I'm talkin' to you too

Daddy's still here

I like the sound of that, yeah

Though it got a ring to it

Shh, momma's only gone for the moment

Now, hush little baby, don't you cry

Everything's gonna be alright

Stiffen that upper lip up, little lady

I told you

Daddy's here to hold you

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

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'll go back to the jeweller who sold it to ya

And make him eat every carat don't fuck with dad (ha-ha)