The Things We've Handed Down-MARC COHN

[ti:Things We've Handed Down] [ar:MARC COHN] [al:The Very Best Of Marc Cohn (Digital Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Things We've Handed Down (流传之事) - MARC COHN [00:39.57]Don't know much about you [00:41.96] [00:42.89]Don't know who you are [00:44.73] [00:46.18]We've been doing fine without you [00:48.93] [00:49.48]But we could only go so far [00:52.82] [00:53.84]Don't know why you chose us [00:56.21] [00:57.26]Were you watching from above [00:59.58] [01:00.94]Is there someone there that knows us [01:03.73] [01:04.57]Said we'd give you all our love [01:12.47] [01:15.55]Will you laugh just like your mother [01:18.51] [01:19.26]Will you sigh like your old man [01:21.78] [01:22.93]Will some things skip a generation [01:26.14]Like heard they often can [01:29.15] [01:30.42]Are you a poet or a dancer [01:33.20] [01:34.55]A devil or a clown [01:36.74] [01:39.15]Or a strange new combination of [01:44.01]The things we've handed down [01:46.56] [01:53.53]I wonder who you'll look like [01:55.29] [01:56.54]Will your hair fall down and curl [01:59.26] [02:00.24]Will you be a mama's boy [02:03.67] [02:04.28]Or daddy's little girl [02:06.62] [02:07.84]Will you be a sad reminder [02:10.57] [02:11.25]Of what's been lost along the way [02:13.86] [02:14.76]Maybe you can help me find her [02:17.62]In the things you do and say [02:26.91] [02:29.80]And these things that we have given you [02:31.98] [02:33.20]They are not so easily found [02:36.45] [02:39.08]But you can thank us later [02:41.65]For the things we've handed down [02:45.79] [02:50.07]For the things we've handed down [02:53.28] [03:05.38]You may not always be so grateful [03:08.55] [03:09.22]For the way that you were made [03:11.90] [03:13.42]Maybe some feature of your father's [03:15.96]That you'd gladly sell or trade [03:19.59] [03:20.79]And one day you may look at us [03:22.86] [03:24.05]And say that you were cursed [03:26.62] [03:28.01]But over time that line has been [03:31.29]Extremely well rehearsed [03:34.37] [03:36.90]By our fathers and their fathers [03:39.73] [03:40.58]In some old and distant town [03:43.23] [03:45.71]From places no one here remembers [03:49.43]Come the things we've handed down [03:53.52] [03:57.89]The things we've handed down [04:00.30] [04:04.50]The things we've handed down