The Things We've Handed Down

Song The Things We've Handed Down
Artist Art Garfunkel
Album Songs from a Parent to a Child

Lyrics

[00:19.06] Don't know much about you
[00:22.74] Don't know who you are
[00:26.11] We've been doin' fine without you
[00:30.15] We could only go so far
[00:34.73] Don't know why you chose us
[00:38.07] Were you watching from above
[00:41.99] Is there someone there that knows us
[00:45.92] Said we'd give you all our love
[00:57.96] Will you laugh just like your mother
[01:01.97] Will you sigh like your old man
[01:05.79] Will some things skip a generation
[01:09.23] Like I've heard they often can
[01:13.82] Are you a poet or a dancer
[01:17.88] A devil or a clown
[01:22.57] Or a strange new combination of
[01:27.70] The things we've handed down
[01:38.02] Wonder who you'll look like
[01:41.53] Will your hair fall down and curl
[01:45.40] Will you be a Mama's boy
[01:49.83] Or Daddy's little girl
[01:53.69] Will you be a sad reminder
[01:57.47] Of what's been lost along the way
[02:01.51] Maybe you can help me find her
[02:05.09] In the things you do and say
[02:17.81] And these things that we have given you
[02:21.78] They are not so easily found
[02:26.91] Oh but you can thank us later for
[02:32.27] The things we've handed down
[02:40.33] The things we've handed down
[02:42.98] Down down down down down
[02:56.87] You may not always be so grateful
[03:00.89] For the way that you were made
[03:04.86] Maybe some feature of your father's
[03:07.87] That you'd gladly sell or trade
[03:13.34] One day you may look at us
[03:17.65] Say that you were cursed
[03:21.65] But over time that line has been
[03:25.07] Extremely well rehearsed
[03:31.12] By our fathers and their fathers
[03:35.14] In some old and distant town
[03:40.42] From places no one here remebers
[03:44.34] Come
[03:45.45] The things we've handed down
[03:53.63] The things we've handed down down
[04:01.75] The things we've handed down