Things We've Handed Down (LP版)-MARC COHN

[ti:The Things We've Handed Down] [ar:MARC COHN] [al:Music From The Television Series Providence] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Things We've Handed Down (LP版) - MARC COHN [00:20.68]Written by：Marc Cohn [00:41.36]I don't know much about you [00:43.67] [00:44.70]I don't know who you are [00:46.45] [00:47.96]And we've been doing fine without you [00:50.96] [00:51.57]But we could only go so far [00:54.64] [00:55.77]I don't know why you chose us [00:57.76] [00:59.05]Were you watching from above [01:01.32] [01:02.75]Is there someone there that knows us [01:05.54] [01:06.35]Said we'd give you all our love [01:14.58] [01:17.56]Will you laugh just like your mother [01:20.21] [01:21.10]Will you sigh like your old man [01:23.71] [01:24.83]Will some things skip a generation [01:28.11]Like I've heard they often can [01:31.05] [01:32.23]Are you a poet or a dancer [01:35.00] [01:36.33]A devil or a clown [01:38.49] [01:40.89]Or a strange new combination of [01:45.94]The things we've handed down [01:48.12] [01:55.24]I wonder who you'll look like [01:57.26] [01:58.38]Will your hair fall down and curl [02:01.06] [02:02.11]Will you be a mama's boy [02:05.56] [02:06.16]Or daddy's little girl [02:08.28] [02:09.63]Will you be a sad reminder [02:12.25] [02:12.97]Of what's been lost along the way [02:15.61] [02:16.49]And maybe you can help me find her [02:19.91]In the things you do and say [02:28.65] [02:31.73]And these things that we have given you [02:33.80] [02:35.03]They are not so easily found [02:37.78] [02:39.86]But you can thank us later [02:43.51]For the things we've handed down [02:47.46] [02:52.14]The things we've handed down down [02:55.05]Down down down down [02:58.86] [03:07.15]You may not always be so grateful [03:10.34] [03:11.28]For the way that you were made [03:13.78] [03:15.25]Maybe some feature of your father's [03:17.85]That you'd gladly sell or trade [03:21.33] [03:22.56]And one day you may look at us [03:24.56] [03:26.11]And say that you were cursed [03:28.34] [03:29.87]But over time that line has been [03:33.10]Extremely well rehearsed [03:36.18] [03:38.91]By our fathers and their fathers [03:41.54] [03:42.39]In some old and distant town [03:45.03] [03:47.49]From places no one here remembers [03:51.20]Come the things we've handed down [03:55.27] [03:59.61]The things we've handed down [04:02.16] [04:06.50]The things we've handed down