Looking good in Hand-me-downs

[Ross]

It's been nice spending time with you since your sister went off to school
I used to think were just a squirrely little girl, but it turns out you're pretty cool
We had another great night and I think I just told you that I've never loved another this way
When you slip yourself out of that fancy dress and I recognize that lacey black neglige

CHORUS:
you're looking good in hand-me-downs (don't ask me how I know that)
Looking good in hand me downs (and you prob'ly look pretty good out of it)
Looking good in hand-me-downs (don't ask me how I know that)
Looking good in hand-me downs

Big sister's back from school, you know it's nice to be together again
But she can tell I get just a little uneasy when she asks how little sister's been
She has a special kind of power when she looks at me that way
So I go ahead and tell her something about her little sister that she probably never expected to hear me say

CHORUS

Well little sister, she came to see me, she says, "This has all got to end."
Big sister never realy meant to hand me down, I was just supposed to be her friend
Little sister tells me this is one of the hardest things she's had to say
And then I think I recognize the back of those overalls while I watch little sister walk away

CHORUS

[boltoph]

Walk along the sidewalk, perfectly in disarray
You may look like you spent every day of your life, struggling for every penny you made
but I know...

You're just looking good in hand-me-downs, the ones you paid a couple hundred bucks for
in a store where they only let certain people through the door
there's nowhere you might be going that i would want to tag along
but it wouldn't take me very long to decide to run you through
but could anyone look better, better than you do
could anyone else wear them like you do?

No one, nowhere, so I'll stay far away from there
...move along
where you go alive, I might not care to revel in yours
who would know? your pockets have holes that fill and fill

Just looking good in hand-me-downs, the ones you paid a couple hundred bucks for
in a corner store where they only let certain people through the door
well there's nowhere you might be going that i would want to tag along
can anyone look better? can anyone wear them like you do? can anyone look better?
'cause you're lookin' so good
Looking so good in hand-me-downs and nobody looks quite like you do
looking so good in this town
you city toy
would even anyone look better, couldn't anyone wear them like you do? does anyone look better?
is anyone coming through to me like you do?

No one can touch you now
touch you now

[j$]

Looking Good in Hand-Me-Downs by X-Tokyo River God

I'm the seventh, seventh son -
No-one cares
I don't know, girl or a boy -
Clothes that we can wear

Looking good in hand-me-downs

Hand-me downs have been worn before -
One by one
Ridicule it just provided the fuel -
Rule your son

Looking good in hand-me-downs
(A million pounds)

Many years, clothes
For a little on the side
When you are alive, and
Now is couture time.

Looking good in hand-me-downs


(this is a cut-up of a lyric that Andy Balham wrote and didn't use. My version is a little parental revenge fantasy.)

[Geoff WreckdoM]

Looking good in Hand-Me-Downs
by Wreckdom


Looking good in hand me downs
My mothers donkey wears a hat
I grew up in this farm of dirt
I live inside a tinfoil hut
I’ve got a payment plan
I settled out of court
I bought the deluxe edition
Will someone give me my props?

Are you gonna finish that?
Are you gonna finish that?
Are you gonna finish that?
Are you gonna finish that?

Looking good in hand me downs
I spit upon my dirty hands
I put together my own belt
Everybody knows I think I can
My next cars gonna be a big car
Gonna be a teepee
Gonna be authenticated
Gonna have a racing stripe
Gonna have a bucket seat
Gonna show my relatives
What I got beneath my hood

Are you gonna finish that?
Are you gonna finish that?
Are you gonna finish that?
Are you gonna finish that?

Samples from Sledgehammer