Pass It On

Video of Song The teacher never knew why they were best friends,

or why if there was a line they be both at the end,

or they lowered their voices when she came around.

It was just automatic, like a mouse going down in hole

Video of Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLV5yiPaz5Q

She never saw them push or shove argue much.

But still, they'd show up at school with these bruises and cuts.

And they'd shiver in their seats if they were called upon

to answer a question, or solve any problem at all.

Pass it on from the father.

Pass it on to the child.

Pass it on to the future.

Pass it on down the line.

Though their minds can't remember

well the rest of them does.

And it will always be there,

in the bones and the blood.

Pass it on.

Well, some of us get lucky

and we start out safe,

and some of us

don't know that word at all.

We'll cricize and sabotage

ourselves each day,

knowing that to stumble

is to fall.

Lisa never did allow emotion shown

'till I got up the guts to call her on the phone.

Then she studdered and she stammered

as her dad came home;

such a beautiful woman to live out life alone.

Pass it on

Elephants in livingrooms not talked about.

Daddy draws the blind so none can see.

Well, if I had the strength then I would cast them out,

knowing that the light might set them free.

They passed around a jar they'd hid behind the stove

and talked of the land they could have if they'd go.

So they go took to the ships and they took only clothes.

Took their own family history, and the symptoms of old.

Pass it on from the father.

Pass it on to the child.

Pass it on to the future.

Pass it on down the line.

pass it on...

pass it on...

pass it on...