Tori Amos Songs - Trouble's Lament Lyrics

Tori Amos - Trouble's Lament

Tori Amos - Trouble's Lament Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Unrepentant Geraldines
Released: 2014

Trouble's Lament Lyrics

Trouble needs a home girls
Trouble needs a home
She fell out with Satan
Now she’s on the run
But I have found her quite straightforward
In her contracts and her deals
She warns me when Danger is
Loose behind his wheels
And he is loose behind his wheels
Don’t cry baby

Trouble got evicted,
From the Devil’s lair
I wager she got betrayed
By her friend Despair
Now the flames from Satan’s tongue are charged
And licking at her heels
She whispers Hey Ginger, Danger’s loose behind his wheels
And Satan knows how Danger makes you feel
What will be will be, baby

You don’t, you don’t need to cry
There are no tears in my eyes
If Danger wants to find me
I’ll let him in, he can find me

Trouble needs a home girls
A covert abode
From Tucson to Ohio
Back through Tobacco road
And she is armed and will fight for the souls
Of girls around the world.
Standing up to Satan
Dancing on st. Michael‘s sword
I’m on her side, in this brutal war
Don’t cry baby

You don’t, you don’t need to cry
There are no tears in my eyes
If Danger wants to find me
I’ll let him in, he can find me

Trouble needs a home girls
Trouble needs a home
Trouble needs a home girls
Will you give her one
Trouble needs a home,
Trouble needs a home

Writer/s: MYRA ELLEN TORI AMOS
Publisher: SWORD AND STONE PUBLISHING CO.
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Trouble's Lament

This song finds Amos singing about the thrill of danger. The singer said that her Southern roots were influential when writing this tune. "Having been born in North Carolina, the South walks with me wherever I am in the world," said Amos. "I can't get it out of my DNA. I don't know if it's a genetic thing, because my mother's side, so far back, is from the Eastern Cherokee nation. So it's really in the blood. It's almost like you listen to the land speaking to you. And wherever I am, I can hear the South calling me."

"I really like the idea that trouble was a young woman," she added. "I see her on my travels a lot. And maybe I knew her many years ago when I was in my 20s."

The line "I wager she got betrayed by her friend Despair" is a reference to English author Neil Gaiman's comic book Sandman series. Amos told Radio.com : "Neil's one of my best friends. My brother Neil, my spirit brother of over twenty years: he ends up skating through many of my songs. There's a shared love for mythology there. That's a real driving factor in our [respective] work. I always wanted to."

Sandman fan Tori Amos became friends with Gaiman after making a reference to "Neil and the Dream King" on her 1991 demo tape. He included her in turn as a talking tree in his novel Stardust. Amos has continued to mention Gaiman in her songs, one example being in "Space Dog" where she sings "Where's Neil when you need him?"