[ti:Mockingbird]
[ar:Eminem]
[al:Encore]

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[00:00.00]Eminem - Mockingbird
 
[00:03.14]Yeah
[00:05.00]I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now
[00:10.60]But hey, what daddy always tell you?
[00:14.26]Straighten up little soldier
[00:16.67]Stiffen up that upper lip
[00:19.50]What you crying about?
[00:21.39]You got me
[00:22.01]
[00:22.63]Hailie I know you miss your mom and I know you miss your dad
[00:25.48]Well I'm gone but I'm trying to give you the life that I never had
[00:28.54]I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh
[00:31.57]I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you want to cry
[00:34.29]Cuz you're scared, I ain't there?
[00:35.71]Daddy's with you in your prayers
[00:37.10]No more crying, wipe them tears
[00:38.47]Daddy's here, no more nightmares
[00:39.92]We gon' pull together through it, we gon' do it
[00:42.05]Laney uncles crazy, aint he?
[00:43.77]Yeah but he loves you girl and you better know it
[00:45.69]We're all we got in this world
[00:47.04]When it spins, when it swirls
[00:48.37]When it whirls, when it twirls
[00:49.81]Two little beautiful girls
[00:51.27]Lookin' puzzled, in a daze
[00:52.59]I know it's confusing you
[00:54.01]Daddy's always on the move, mamma's always on the news
[00:56.82]I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it seems
[00:59.32]The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me
[01:02.12]All the things growing up his daddy that he had to see
[01:05.03]Daddy don't want you to see but you see just as much as he did
[01:07.98]We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me
[01:10.49]But things have gotten so bad between us
[01:12.09]I don't see us ever being together ever again
[01:15.00]Like we used to be when we was teenagers
[01:16.72]But then of course everything always happens for a reason
[01:19.63]I guess it was never meant to be
[01:21.45]But it's just something we have no control
[01:23.26]over and that's what destiny is
[01:25.11]But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep
[01:27.62]Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a dream
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[Chorus]
[01:30.65]Now hush little baby, don't you cry
[01:33.36]Everything's gonna be alright
[01:35.35]Stiffen that upperlip up little lady, i told ya
[01:38.57]Daddy's here to hold ya through the night
[01:41.04]I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why
[01:44.78]We feel how we feel inside
[01:46.74]It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby
[01:49.45]But i promise momma's gon' be alright
[01:52.14]
[01:52.59]It's funny
[01:53.05]I remember back one year when daddy had no money
[01:55.86]Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up
[01:57.61]And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were from me
[02:00.22]Cuz daddy couldn't buy 'em
[02:01.62]I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying
[02:04.42]Cuz daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job
[02:07.08]But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom
[02:09.92]And at the time every house that we lived in
[02:12.30]Either kept getting broke into and robbed
[02:14.39]Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving money for you in a jar
[02:18.45]Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college
[02:21.21]Almost had a thousand dollars till someone broke in and stole it
[02:24.46]And I know it hurt so bad it broke your momma's heart
[02:27.03]And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall apart
[02:29.93]Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma moved back
[02:32.91]On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom apartment
[02:35.73]And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara
[02:38.26]And that's when daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre
[02:42.30]And flew you and momma out to see me
[02:44.02]But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me
[02:46.78]Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V. and momma didn't like it
[02:50.17]And you and Laney were to young to understand it
[02:52.77]Papa was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit
[02:55.61]And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it
[02:58.39]I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand
[03:01.09]Cuz all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud
[03:03.83]Now I'm sittin in this empty house, just reminiscing
[03:06.93]Lookin' at your baby pictures, it just trips me out
[03:09.20]To see how much you both have grown,
[03:10.59]it's almost like you're sisters now
[03:12.41]Wow, guess you pretty much are and daddy's still here
[03:15.62]Laney I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here
[03:18.44]I like the sound of that, yeah
[03:19.89]It's got a ring to it don't it?
[03:21.32]Shh, momma's only gone for the moment
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[Chorus]
[03:23.63]Now hush little baby, don't you cry
[03:26.32]Everything's gonna be alright
[03:28.30]Stiffen that upperlip up little lady, i told ya
[03:31.43]Daddy's here to hold ya through the night
[03:33.97]I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why
[03:37.66]We feel how we feel inside
[03:39.62]It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby
[03:42.35]But i promise momma's gon' be alright
[03:45.08]
[03:45.38]And if you ask me too
[03:46.35]Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird
[03:49.04]I'mma give you the world
[03:50.92]I'mma buy a diamond ring for you
[03:52.76]I'mma sing for you
[03:53.74]I'll do anything for you to see you smile
[03:56.82]And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine
[04:00.11]I'mma break that birdies neck
[04:02.15]I'd go back to the jewler who sold it to ya
[04:04.97]And make him eat every carat don't fuck with dad (haha)