19th Century Ballerinas & Used Superstitions

Hand Me Down Luck - I Call Fives
Keep asking questions and you might get some answers
I assure you it's not easy
This was just a disaster
But that's just what you'll get
When you put your faith in me
I'm sure you all would agree
That almost everything I've ever said
Was just to bring the conversation in a better direction
That's all I've got
And I've been hanging by a thread

I don't want to remember
I don't want to remember
Every chance I get, I fail
I don't want to remember

So here's the thing
I wouldn't wish my luck on anybody else
And I've been trying to change for three years
But every time I attempt, things go to hell
Now in the past three years
I've made some mistakes that I regret today
Now it's time to change
Cause everything I want is only a step away

I don't want to remember
I don't want to remember
Every chance I get, I fail
I don't want to remember

Two, three, four
I don't want to remember
I don't want to remember
Every chance I get, I fail
I don't want to remember

Typical ballads usually fall into one of four categories.  Among those categories is the feeling of unrequited love in a character.  In the song "Hand Me Down Luck" by I Call Fives, the speaker expresses their feelings that they once shared with someone and how those feelings are not shared anymore.  This song exhibits a number of characteristics that are found in many common Folk Ballads.  The lyrics of the song dramatizes a single incident; whereas, the story within the song begins abruptly without much given information about the past experience.  There is dialogue or questions and answers that further the story within the song that illustrate how the speaker wants their questions answered and then goes on to list their problems.  There is a strong, simple beat and an uncomplicated rhyme scheme or pattern used in the musical work, for it is quite short and simple with  the use of refrain, repeated regularly throughout the ballad at the end of a stanza to emphasize ideas and add to the musical quality of the verses.  Finally, this work is based on actual events that occurred earlier in the speaker's life, which they regret.  "Hand Me Down Luck" is a musical work that accurately reflects the traditional folk ballad.  With many of the typical characteristics present within the lyrics of the song, the use of one's imagination can be exercised in a simplistic way to make the song mean something special.