[00:00.21]Mockingbird - Eminem
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[00:03.99]Yeah
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[00:05.88]I know sometimes things may not
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[00:08.72]Always make sense to you right now
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[00:11.45]But hey
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[00:12.99]What daddy always tell you
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[00:15.25]Straighten up little soldier
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[00:17.67]Stiffen up that upper lip
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[00:20.47]What you crying about
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[00:22.32]You got me
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[00:23.62]Hailie I know you miss your mom and I know you miss your dad
[00:26.28]Well I m gone but I m trying to give you the life that I never had
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[00:29.42]I can see you re sad even when you smile even when you laugh
[00:32.61]I can see it in your eyes deep inside you want to cry
[00:35.31]Cause you re scared I ain t there
[00:36.71]Daddy s with you in your prayers
[00:38.16]No more crying wipe them tears
[00:39.47]Daddy s here no more nightmares
[00:40.99]We gon pull together through it we gon do it
[00:42.98]Laney uncles crazy ain t he
[00:44.49]Yeah but he loves you girl and you better know it
[00:46.63]We re all we got in this world
[00:48.04]When it spins when it swirls
[00:49.45]When it whirls when it twirls
[00:50.92]Two little beautiful girls
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[00:52.35]Lookin puzzled in a daze
[00:53.66]I know it s confusing you
[00:55.08]Daddy s always on the move mama s always on the news
[00:57.90]I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it seems
[01:00.42]The harder that I try to do that the more it backfires on me
[01:03.28]All the things growing up his daddy that he had to see
[01:06.06]Daddy don t want you to see but you see just as much as he did
[01:08.98]We did not plan it to be this way your mother and me
[01:11.71]But things have gotten so bad between us
[01:13.27]I don t see us ever being together ever again
[01:16.02]Like we used to be when we were teenagers
[01:17.90]But then of course everything always happens for a reason
[01:21.18]I guess it was never meant to be
[01:22.71]But it s just something we have no control over and that s what destiny is
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[01:26.83]But no more worries rest your head and go to sleep
[01:28.81]Maybe one day we ll wake up and this will all just be a dream
[01:31.65]Now hush little baby don t you cry
[01:34.49]Everything s gonna be alright
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[01:36.83]Stiffen that upper lip up little lady I told ya
[01:39.92]Daddy s here to hold ya through the night
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[01:42.43]I know mommy s not here right now and we don t know why
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[01:46.11]We fear how we feel inside
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[01:48.10]It may seem a little crazy pretty baby
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[01:50.97]But I promise momma s gon be alright
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[01:53.65]It s funny
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[01:54.86]I remember back one year when daddy had no money
[01:57.16]Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up
[01:58.76]And stuck em under the tree and said some of em were from me
[02:01.63]Cause daddy couldn t buy em
[02:02.93]I ll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying
[02:05.66]Cause daddy felt like a bum see daddy had a job
[02:08.64]But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom
[02:11.28]And at the time every house that we lived in
[02:13.78]Either kept getting broken into and robbed
[02:15.88]Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving money for you in a jar
[02:19.97]Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college
[02:22.96]Almost had a thousand dollars till someone broke in and stole it
[02:25.89]And I know it hurt so bad it broke your momma s heart
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[02:28.66]And it seemed like everything was just startin to fall apart
[02:31.35]Mom and dad was arguin a lot so momma moved back
[02:34.45]On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom apartment
[02:37.09]And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara
[02:39.91]And that s when daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre
[02:43.71]And flew you and momma out to see me
[02:45.53]But daddy had to work you and momma had to leave me
[02:48.19]Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V. and momma didn t like it
[02:51.89]And you and Laney were to young to understand it
[02:54.53]Papa was a rollin stone momma developed a habit
[02:57.14]And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it
[03:00.04]I m just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand
[03:02.66]Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud
[03:05.48]Now I m sitting in this empty house just reminiscing
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[03:08.64]Lookin at your baby pictures it just trips me out
[03:10.90]To see how much you both have grown it s almost like you re sisters now
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[03:14.47]Wow guess you pretty much are and daddy s still here
[03:17.17]Laney I m talkin to you too daddy s still here
[03:20.00]I like the sound of that yeah
[03:21.54]It s got a ring to it don t it
[03:23.05]Shh momma s only gone for the moment
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[03:25.32]Now hush little baby don t you cry
[03:28.14]Everything s gonna be alright
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[03:30.28]Stiffen that upper lip up little lady I told ya
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[03:33.42]Daddy s here to hold ya through the night
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[03:35.95]I know mommy s not here right now and we don t know why
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[03:39.54]We fear how we feel inside
[03:41.47]It may seem a little crazy pretty baby
[03:44.25]But I promise momma s gon be alright
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[03:47.13]And if you ask me too Daddy s gonna buy you a mockingbird
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[03:50.96]I mma give you the world
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[03:52.86]I mma buy a diamond ring for you
[03:54.46]I mma sing for you
[03:55.70]I ll do anything for you to see you smile
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[03:58.74]And if that mockingbird don t sing and that ring don t shine
[04:02.12]I mma break that birdies neck
[04:03.99]I ll go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya
[04:06.92]And make him eat every carat don t fuck with dad (ha ha)
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