Last Years Troubles (Album Version)

Last Years Troubles (Album Version) - Suzanne Vega (蘇珊·薇格)

Written by：Suzanne Vega

Last year's troubles

Last year's troubles

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

Last year's troubles

Look at all the waifs

Of Dickensian England

Why is it their suffering is more picturesque

Must because

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 prettily

They gleam with a luster they don't have today

'Cause here it's just dirty

And violent and troubling

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Last year's troubles

Last year's troubles

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 handfulls

Measure for measure

It's the same would be my guess

Last year's troubles

Last year's troubles

Last year's troubles

Last year's troubles