Hand Me Downs

by the Indigo Girls

I've taken so many down,
I've helped them all to dismount.
I've followed so many down,
I take their hand me downs.

All with hope
All with hope that
emptiness brings fullness and
loss of love brings wholeness to us all.

Everything that I believe
crawls from underneath the streets.
Everything I truely love
comes from somewhere high above.
Everything that I believe
is wrong with you is wrong with me.
Everything I truely love
I love in you and I love in me.

So give me hope,
give me hope that
emptiness brings fullness and
loss of love brings wholeness to us all.

Swear you can't swim the river,
I saw you running to jump in.
I swore I would never be your sinner,
until I held your sin.

Now you ask me why I'm here.
The same as you, I'm scared, It's fear.
I've become the begger now,
you've become the saint somehow.
Twist the words and place the balme,
tell me now, aren't we the same?
Tripping in our yellow feet,
checking underneath our sheets,
For some hope,
give me hope that
emptiness brings fullness and
loss of love brings wholeness to us all.

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