Lyrics to
Trouble

This version of Trouble was released by Robert Palmer in 1975.

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You yelled “hey”
When your car wouldn’t start
Got real nervous, started to eat your heart out
You’re so fat, your shoes don’t fit on your feet
You got trouble
And it’s tailor made, mama lay down your head in the shade
Coz your eyes are tired and your feet are too
And you wish the world was as tired as you
Well I write a letter and I and it today
And put all the trouble in it you had today, had today

You yelled “hey”
When your stove blew up
Upset, why yes
The footprints on your ceiling are almost gone
And you’re wondering why
Mama lay your head down don’t you
Your eyes are tired and your feet are too
And you wish the world was as tired as you
Well I write a letter and I send it away
And I put in it all the trouble you had today, had today
All the trouble in it

Well your telephone rang and you weren’t home
You forgot about this and you forgot about that
Got to get to what you’re doing
Goodbye click that so and so
You’re an islander on your own, on your own

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About Lyrics and Trouble by Robert Palmer

When you decide to study the lyrics to Trouble, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Robert Palmer. Some of the lyrics to Trouble have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Robert Palmer and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Trouble if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Trouble" means the words set to the music of Trouble, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Robert Palmer. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Trouble and the lyrics to Trouble are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Robert Palmer who came here looking just for the lyrics to Trouble, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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