Lyrics to
Trouble

This version of Trouble was released by Whitesnake in 1978.

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I was raised a gambler’s son
And before I could walk,
I had to learn how to run
And I never, never ever
Played a loaded dice
But, I rolled a lot of women
With a heart as cold as ice

On the run again
Looking for a place to hide,
Everywhere I look there is trouble,
Always coming my way,
Trouble always coming my way

Baby I’m lonely, I’m out of control,
I need someone to understand
The badness in my soul
Though I never, I never
Stole another man’s wife
But, I fooled around plenty enough
And I got what I paid for

On the run again
Looking for a place to hide,
Everywhere I look there is trouble,
Trouble always coming my way

Trouble

On the run again
Looking for a place to hide,
Everywhere I look there is trouble,
Trouble always coming my way

Trouble always coming my way, trouble always coming…

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The lyrics to Trouble are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Whitesnake used when the song was created in 1978. The lyrics to Trouble have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Whitesnake and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Trouble by Whitesnake. 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 Whitesnake. 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 Whitesnake 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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