Mockingbird

(film reel spinning)

(slow rap music)

- [Eminem] Yeah.

I know sometimes

things may not always make sense to you right now.

But hey

Straighten up, little soldier.

Stiffen up that upper lip.

What you cryin' about?

You got me.

♪ I can see you sad even when you smile ♪

♪ Deep inside you wanna cry ♪

♪ 'cause you're scared I ain't there ♪

♪ No more cryin' wipe them tears ♪

♪ Daddy's here no more nightmares ♪

♪ We gonna pull together through it ♪

♪ We're all we got in this world ♪

♪ When it whirls when it twirls ♪

♪ Two little beautiful girls ♪

♪ Lookin' puzzled in a daze ♪

♪ I know it's confusing you ♪

♪ I try to keep you sheltered from it ♪

♪ But somehow it seems ♪

♪ The harder that I try to do that ♪

♪ All the things growin' up ♪

♪ Daddy don't want you to see ♪

♪ We did not plan it to be this way ♪

♪ But things have got so bad between us ♪

♪ I don't see us ever being ♪

♪ Together ever again ♪

♪ Like we used to be ♪

♪ When we was 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 this'll all just be a dream ♪

♪ Now hush little baby don't you cry ♪

♪ Everything's gonna be all right ♪

♪ Stiffen that upper lip up little lady ♪

♪ I told ya Daddy's here to hold ya ♪

♪ Through the night ♪

♪ We feel how we feel inside ♪

♪ 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 cryin' ♪

♪ '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 gettin' broken into and robbed ♪

♪ Or shot up on the block ♪

♪ And your Mom was savin' money for you in a jar ♪

♪ Tryin' to start a piggy bank for you ♪

♪ So you could go to college ♪

♪ Almost had a thousand dollars ♪

♪ And I know it hurt so bad it broke your Mama's heart ♪

♪ And it seemed like everything ♪

♪ Was just startin' to fall apart ♪

♪ Mom and Dad was arguing a lot ♪

♪ So Mama moved back on to Chalmers in a flat ♪

♪ One bedroom apartment ♪

♪ And Dad moved back to the other side ♪

♪ Of Eight Mile on Novarra ♪

♪ And that's when Daddy went to California with his CD ♪

♪ And met Dr. Dre ♪

♪ And flew you and Mama out to see me ♪

♪ But Daddy had to work ♪

♪ You and Mama had to leave me ♪

♪ Then you started seein' Daddy on the TV ♪

♪ And Mama didn't like it ♪

♪ And you and Laney were too young to understand ♪

♪ That Papa was a rollin' stone ♪

♪ Mama developed a habit ♪

♪ And it all happened too fast ♪

♪ For either one of us to grab it ♪

♪ I'm just sorry you were there ♪

♪ And had to witness it firsthand ♪

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

♪ Now I'm sittin' in this empty house ♪

♪ Just reminiscing looking 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 ♪

♪ Wow 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 ♪

♪ It's got a ring to it don't it ♪

♪ Shh Mama's only gone for the moment ♪

♪ Now hush little baby don't you cry ♪

♪ Everything's gonna be all right ♪

♪ Stiffen that upper lip up little lady ♪

♪ I told ya Daddy'd here to hold ya ♪

♪ Through the night ♪

♪ 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 Mama's gonna be all right ♪

♪ And if you ask me to ♪

♪ Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird ♪

♪ I'ma give you the world ♪

♪ I'ma buy a diamond ring for you ♪

♪ I'ma 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'ma break that birdie's neck ♪

♪ I'll go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya ♪

♪ And make him eat every carat ♪

♪ Don't f-- with Dad ♪

Ha ha.