Evidently this isn't the song that Jenny S originally requested, but it's the one Maeve suggested back on 19-Sep-2012:


HAND-ME-DOWN SONGS
As recorded by The Gentleman Callers on "Hand-Me-Down Songs" (2006)

Time after the show when I found you in the wings
And I told you how I thought you were ev'rything.
I meant it at the time; I thought you were the king,
And I spent the next two years learnin' how to sing.

I wrote some country songs, played 'em ev'ry night
In these empty bar rooms underneath the neon lights.
When I get too sad, and when I'm wound too tight,
I try to tell myself you set me all right.

CHORUS: But you burned out your bill(?) for us; you left me in the cold,
Wearin' all o' your hand-me-down clothes,
And I wish you hadn't made me ever'thing I am today,
Just to turn around and walk away.

Last time that we spoke, I didn't recognize your tone,
But I knew that you were gone and you left me all alone.
I could eat the fruit from the trees that you've grown,
But then nothin' I make will ever be my own. CHORUS

Since you went away, I stand upon my feet,
And I'm spittin' out these tired songs … teeth(?),
Wearin' down the pain of your sad deceit.
Now I'm walkin' through my lonesomeness down these city streets. CHORUS