Hand Me Down
(R. Thomas)
Matchbox Twenty - More Than You Think You Are, 2002

Someday they'll find your small-town world
on a big-town avenue
gonna make you like the way they talk
when they're talking to you
gonna make you break out of your shell
cause they tell you to
gonna make you like the way they lie
better than the truth

The'll tell you everything
you wanted someone else to say
they're gonna break your heart

(chorus)
yeah, from what I've seen
you're just one more hand me down
cause no one's tried
to give you what you need
so lay all your troubles down
I am with you now

Somebody ought to take you in
try to make you love again
try to make you like the way they feel
when they're under your skin
never once do you think that they will lie
when they're holding you
then you wonder why they haven't called
when they said they'd call you

You start to wonder if you're ever gonna make it by
you start to think you were born blind

(chorus)

I'm here for the hard times
the straight-to-your-heart times
when living ain't easy
you can stand up against me
and maybe rely on me
and cry on me

Someday they'll open up your world
shake it down to the drawing-board
do their best to change you;
they still can't erase you

(chorus)

Lay them down on me
you're just one more hand me down
and all those nights don't give you what you need
so lay all your troubles down
on me