Last year's troubles are so old fashioned
the robber on the highway the pirate on the seas
maybe it's the clothing that's so entertaining
the earrings and swashbuckling blouses that please
here we have heroes of times that have passed now
but nobody these days has that kind of chin
over there the petticoats of ladies of virtue
you can hardly tell them from the petticoats of sin
last year's troubles
look at all the waifs of Dickensian England
why is it their suffering is more picturesque?
must be cause their rags are so very Victorian
the ones here at home just don't give it their best
last years troubles they shine up so pretty
they gleam with a luster they don't have today
here it's just dirty and violent and troubling
last year's troubles
but trouble is still trouble and evil still evil
sometimes we wonder; is there more now, or less?
if we had a tool or could tally the handfuls
measure for measure it's the same would be my guess
The lyrics LAST YEAR'S TROUBLES of SUZANNE VEGA is also present in the album Songs in red and gray (2001)
Suzanne Nadine Vega (New York, 1959) è una cantautrice e musicista americana di fama internazionale. Conosciuta per il suo stile folk-rock introspettivo e le sue liriche poetiche, Vega ha raggiunto la popolarità negli anni '80 con brani come "Luka" e "Tom's Diner". La sua musica è caratterizzata da un uso raffinato della voce, di accordi semplici ma efficaci e da una forte componente narrativa. Vega ha pubblicato oltre dieci album in studio, collaborando con artisti come David Byrne dei Talking Heads e The Kronos Quartet. Tra i suoi album più importanti ricordiamo "Suzanne Vega" (1985), "Solitude Standing" (1987) e "Days of Open Hand" (2007). I suoi brani rappresentativi includono oltre a "Luka" e "Tom's Diner", anche "Marlene on the Wall" e "Gypsy".
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