This is the first single from my solo album, The Fall.
I wrote this song in the back of a bus, and the air conditioner had just quit, and somebody mentioned how awesome it would be to be on a big tour that particular summer… Jeff Chapman chimed in on the writing of the last verse, trying to be positive.
The radio was busted too, so our only entertainment was our own efforts and the whine of the wheels on the road with all the windows down to help nurture a breeze. We all sang the chorus–all the way to the gig–until we almost abandoned the song on account of the bad memories the melody could conjure up of that 2-ton hotbox barreling down the highway at dangerous speeds, loaded down with a band of pickers and might-as-well grinners. Nothing but…..trouble.
Song Lyrics for Trouble
JCH2/Chapman
You ought not try and think about, the things that ya can’t control
It’ll just bring ya down, break your heart, leave you in a big dark hole
You’ll be standing on the corner, waiting on a bus, and here come a passenger train
It’ll blow you right down, leave you in the gutter, till it come a pouring rain
I ain’t going back down again
I saw all there is to see
Trouble on the left, trouble on the right, trouble right next to me
I went to college kept my nose in the books, till I got my degree
Whats a man to do with all that knowledge, pouring right outta me
I ain’t seen no milk or honey, I ain’t got nothing to show
But I don’t give a damn bout all that money, to hell with them student loans
I ain’t going back down again
I saw all there is to see
Trouble on the left, trouble on the right, trouble right next to me
I’m tired of working like hell, to get into heaven, afraid that I might get stoned
You never do know, you could roll a seven, life’s like a game of bones
Just a bag of bones and we’re on our own, the Devil is following me
But we will all feel better when we all get together
And this here’s the song we’ll sing Lord
We ain’t going back down again
we saw all there is to see
Trouble on the left, trouble on the right, trouble right next to me
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