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Hand Me Down Blues

from Cry Till You Laugh by Terri Hendrix

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Moods, just like weights, have a gravitational pull. It’s so easy to roll downhill with the force. Some days are an uphill climb. But when things happen in life that I can’t get over or climb, I try to tunnel through instead.
 
I took the lyric from this song, “Some things you don’t get over, you just get through,” and created a chapter called “Wail Theory” with essays about life’s proverbial “lemons” and “lemonade” and finding a way to learn from both.

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Where’d you get those
Hand me down blues
You gave’em to me
I gave‘em back to you

Now every time I see you
You’re layin’ around
Pullin’ you up
Is draggin’ me down
You’re draggin’ me down

How can things look up
If you’re starin’ at your shoes
Talkin’ ‘bout the future
Like it’s yesterday’s news

You close the blinds
To block the view
And pull another all-nighter
In your hand me down blues
Your hand me down blues

Some things you don’t get over
You just get through
Life happened to me
And it happened to you

Hear the church bells chime
Feel the pendulum swing
Get ready for whatever
The days gonna bring
Sometimes I shake
Sometimes I sing
With the hand me down
Hand me down blues

Where’d you get those
Hand me down blues
You gave‘em to me
I gave‘em back to you

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from Cry Till You Laugh, released June 22, 2010

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Terri Hendrix San Marcos

Terri Hendrix is an award-winning Texas songwriter who spins sorrow into joy and wrings wisdom from the blues with a poetic grace, warmth and uplifting melodic flair that has long been her trademark. A classically trained vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Hendrix dodges musical pigeonholes by weaving folk, pop, country, blues and jazz into an eclectic style all her own. ... more

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