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Hand Me Down World Lyrics
Anybody here see the noise, see the fear
And commotion,
I think we missed it
Anybody here see the love, see the hate
Being motioned...
Don’t give me no hand me down shoes
Don’t give me no hand me down love
Don’t give me no hand me down world
Got one already.
Anybody here see the long distance cheer
For the notion,
I think we missed it
Anybody here see the sky weeping tears
for the ocean...
Anybody here see the fuzzy-wuzzy loving cup explosion
I think we missed it
Anybody here see changing of the year-end emotion...
Don’t give me no hand me down world
I don’t really need it and I’m not gonna take it...
And commotion,
I think we missed it
Anybody here see the love, see the hate
Being motioned...
Don’t give me no hand me down love
Don’t give me no hand me down world
Got one already.
For the notion,
I think we missed it
for the ocean...
I think we missed it
Anybody here see changing of the year-end emotion...
I don’t really need it and I’m not gonna take it...
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why do we want the world our fathers have prepared for their children and future generations? We have our own world... we have to work with what we've got... but the previous generations want to give us a hand me down world....
And yet... it talks about having missed the best part... why would you want something that has already seen it's best parts... left overs... hand me downs... no thank you....
this song is encouraging us to make our own moments and memories to life for our today... not live to perform our expected duties for the previous ones before us...
this song is awesome....
another awesome song...show some love people.
yeah, you got it dwfp99, this is an awesome song, i think on of their best
Dave Matthews would sum it up this way...
"I don't want to wake up lost in the dreams of our fathers."
I love this song, we are lost in a world that may be screwed thanks to our actions and whims.
Kurt, RIP, could really write some great stuff.
Could the song possible be, even in part, about the environment? It was a common theme back then. I think The Guess Who had other songs with that theme, i.e. New Mother Nature. Consider these lyrics: "Anybody here see the sky weeping tears for the ocean." Hand-me-downs are often used up.
Could there be an environmental message here? It would not be the first time the Guess Who had such a message. Consider: "Anybody here see the sky weeping tears for the ocean" I don't want anything that somebody else has used up - be that clothes, shoes, love, or the earth.