Providence movie - The Things We've Handed Down lyrics

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Song by Marc Cohn<br /><br>

Don't know much about you <br>

Don't know who you are <br>

We've been doing fine without you <br>

But we could only go so far <br>

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Don't know why you chose us <br>

Were you watching from above <br>

s there someone there that knows us <br>

Said we'd give you all our love <br>

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Will you laugh just like your mother <br>

Will you sigh like your old man <br>

Will some things skip a generation <br>

Like I've heard they often can <br>

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Are you a poet or a dancer <br>

A devil or a clown <br>

Or a strange new combination of <br>

The things we've handed down <br>

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I wonder who you'll look like <br>

Will your hair fall down and curl <br>

Will you be a mama's boy <br>

Or daddy's little girl <br>

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Will you be a sad reminder <br>

Of what's been lost along the way <br>

Maybe you can help me find her <br>

In the things you do and say <br>

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And these things that we have given you <br>

They are not so easily found <br>

But you can thank us later <br>

For the things we've handed down <br>

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You may not always be so grateful <br>

For the way that you were made <br>

Some feature of your father's <br>

That you'd gladly sell or trade <br>

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And one day you may look at us <br>

And say that you were cursed <br>

But over time that line has been <br>

Extremely well rehearsed <br>

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By our fathers, and their fathers <br>

In some old and distant town <br>

From places no one here remembers <br>

Come the things we've handed down<br>

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