Trouble Oh, trouble, set me free I have seen your face And it's too much, too much for me Trouble Oh, trouble, can't you see? You're eatin' my heart away And there's nothin' much left of me I have drank your wine You have made your world mine So, won't you be fair? So, won't you be fair? I don't want more of you So, won't you be kind to me? Just let me go where I'll have to go there Trouble Oh, trouble, move away I have seen your face And it's too much for me today Trouble Oh, trouble, can't you see? You have made me a wreck Now, won't you leave me in my misery? I have seen your eyes I can see death's disguise Hangin' on me Hangin' on me I am beat, I'm torn Shattered and tossed and worn Too shocking to see Too shocking to see Trouble Oh, trouble, move from me I have paid my debt Now, won't you leave me in my misery? Trouble Oh, trouble, please be kind I don't want no fight And I haven't got a lot of time

Chloë is a borough socialist She insists there's not much more to it Than drinks with a certain element Of downtown art criticism I benefit more than I should admit From her unscrupulous therapist How Benzedrine supposed to address Your shoplifting is anybody's guess Chloë Chloë Please don't ever change That story that continues to persist How you could have dropped the cigarette On the trip your boyfriend's canoe flipped Doesn't lose your grip on me a bit She and I, we were inseparable 'Til Ma called my East Coast uncle to Ascertain the welfare of her son Howard said, "Mary, you'd better come" Chloë Her name is Chloë And he's talking awful strange But the more they abhor you The more I adore you I would but I can't My heart don't stand a chance Of even a glance Her soul is a pitch black expanse Summer ended on the balcony She put on Flight of the Valkyries At her 31st birthday party Took a leap into the Autumn leaves

Simone writes little love, much consequence Lest the theatre's how you pay the rent A new work of some semi-memoir sits Inside the weekend book editors desk And while they have not mentioned it She must watch roses get thrown at less Oh, the indignity It was just the thing for their Q4 "Deeply funny" was the rave refrain It was just the thing for their Q4 It'll be on stands before the holidays Her sister was not much long for this world She danced as if a dancer danced, as if As if she had a body to sustain As if an audience to entertain This ironic distance kept her sane While her vessel sailed away It was all very literary And the truth was It was just the thing for their Q4 What's "deeply funny" mean anyhow? It was just the thing for their Q4 These are the stories that we need right now How could she compete? (I'm sure she wouldn't mind) With a memory such as she (but who else than I) Leigh died so many months ago (could write the story of her life?) "By now this tragedy's my own" Oh-o-oh-oh It was just the thing for their Q4 "Deeply funny" was the rave refrain It was just the thing for their Q4 It'll be on stands before the holidays It was just the thing for their Q4 The film adaptation was a total mess It was just the thing for their Q4 'Til she was outed for her privilege It was just a thing for their Q4 Can't see her brother now unsupervised It was just the thing for their Q4 Her family switched care right when she inquired

I just want the chance to let that little ballerina come dance I know it's hard to find romance When all your dreams slipped out your hands Oh, darlin' I just want the chance to let that little ballerina come dance I know it's hard to find romance When all your dreams slipped out your hands Oh, darlin' Come the nighttime, I'm your lifeline (Such a fool to fall), maybe I'm a fool for love (Such a fool to fall), maybe I'm a fool for love (Such a fool to fall), for love, for love, for love, for love As soon as she walked in, we started talkin' As if nobody else exist With her bleach blonde hair and her cold hard stare And her lucky 13 on her wrist And all night long, I play my song 'Til she broke down in tears Oh, we're just the same, caught up in the game Of life so hold me, my dear 'Cause all I need is time All I need is time I just want the chance to let that little ballerina come dance I know it's hard to find romance When all your dreams slipped out your hands Oh, darlin' I just want the chance to let that little ballerina come dance I know it's hard to find romance When all your dreams slipped out your hands Oh, darlin' So I take her to the ocean, love to watch her floating Hoping that she drifts my way All those waves drown her sorrow She'll need me tomorrow So what's another empty day? But all my friends, they see the end She's been doing this for years But I swear I know that her heart can grow Beyond that lonely little life that she fears 'Cause all I need is time All I need is time I just want the chance to let that little ballerina come dance I know it's hard to find romance When all your dreams slipped out your hands Oh, darlin' You've been trying so hard for all of your life Never got it quite right This, I know Oh, you say you need it slow or you just lose control But babe, if I find a way To take all your mind away from the cold Just tell me that you'll go, oh I just want the chance to let that little ballerina come dance I know it's hard to find romance When all your dreams slipped out your hands Oh, darlin' I just want the chance to let that little ballerina come dance I know it's hard to find romance When all your dreams slipped out your hands Oh, darlin' Come the nighttime, I'm your lifeline (Such a fool to fall), maybe I'm a fool for love (Such a fool to fall), maybe I'm a fool for love (Such a fool to fall), for love, for love, for love, for love Maybe I'm a fool for love, (such a fool to fall) Maybe I'm a fool for love, (such a fool to fall) Maybe I'm a fool for love, (such a fool to fall) For love, for love, for love

I've been lost for far too long Paid the cost now I move on So you just keep on coming around With all the tales of how you're down To be the woman that was in my dreams Just my silence that makes you screams All those yells and all those cries Deep drowned out by all your lies How hard you tried And I'd say goodbye But it's time for you to be alone Now I'm doing just fine Stop wasting your time Trying and trying to fool me to fall in love again So now you're still so blind Keep wasting your time Trying and trying to fool me to fall in love again To fool me to fall in love again Pushed you out but then I've let you in Closed my eyes and you went off within And I don't know who taught you how to act But you ain't gotta put a hate like that Now I've got it, it burns your heart And you'll say anything to make it stop But all those yells and all those cries Deep drowned out by all your lies How hard you tried And I'd say goodbye But it's time for you to be alone Now I'm doing just fine Stop wasting your time Trying and trying to fool me to fall in love again So now you're still so blind Keep wasting your time Trying and trying to fool me to fall in love again To fool me to fall in love again It used to feel like love And you can't go on And you can't go on Is it just too much? And it holds you high But does it break you down And does it turn you wild Well does it turn you wild? All my love's left in that ocean down Every feel that I become Now I'm moving on Now I'm doing just fine Stop wasting your time Trying and trying to fool me to fall in love again So now you're still so blind Keep wasting your time Trying and trying to fool me to fall in love again To fool me to fall in love again

Why you make me work so hard To put on that evening show? When you know that all I want Is to make your money grow? You're like a baby who don't got nowhere to go I feel you eyeing me, you keep it on the low (On the low, on the low) But I can't let you in And I can't keep you out I wait for life to win But it never comes around And I can't hear you call And I can't hear me shout I wait for it to break But it never comes around And I'm lonely I'm lonely I'm lonely Why you make me take that shit To put on that evening show? When you know I don't need it Better than your booze and blow? You're like a baby, don't know better, you don't know You drag me down, you try to keep it on the low But I can't let you in And I can't keep you out I wait for life to win But it never comes around And I can't hear you call And I can't hear me shout I wait for it to break But it never comes around Feel like I'm falling apart Feel like I'm falling apart Feel like I'm falling apart Would you tell me? Would you tell me? Would you tell me? But I can't let you in And I can't keep you out I wait for life to win But it never comes around And I can't hear you call And I can't hear me shout I wait for it to break But it never comes around And I'm lonely I'm lonely I'm lonely

Last Halloween when the devil grinned The tattoos on your face covered up your skin Scarred from the sin and those sleepless nights Trying to find a fight you can't win So you chased him, traded that good life Only got yourself another good night Until the morning darling When you're right back to Falling apart, falling apart, you know you're falling apart Just another little lonely broken heart How did you get so cold (You'll never know, you 'll never know, you'll never know) How did you get so cold Life is short and you're no longer young enough To throw around your body for a little fun Put another photo, spend my cash Put another photo, have a blast Now it's gone and I'm dark and your heart is still crawling It heals, since you kneel And at baggage claim bawling til the morning darling And you're right back to Falling apart, falling apart, you know you're falling apart Just another little lonely broken heart How did you get so cold (You'll never know, you'll never know, you'll never know) How did you get so cold You slip away into the morning sun When he touches your face and your day's begun I know you hate yourself for what, what you've done So you push it away, it's getting harder to run When you run so fast and you run so long And it's all your fault cause you were never strong It's not much of a life though darling It's not much of a life (life) (When you're) Falling apart, falling apart, you know you're falling apart Just another little lonely broken heart How did you get so cold How did you get so cold (When you're) Falling apart, falling apart, you know you're falling apart Just another little lonely broken heart How did you get so cold (You'll never know, you'll never know, you'll never know) How did you get so cold Oh, oh, oh, oh oh oh Oh, oh, oh, oh oh oh oh You never been nothing, baby You never been nothing, baby Falling apart, falling apart, you know you're falling apart Just another little lonely broken heart How did you get so cold How did you get so cold Falling apart, falling apart, you know you're falling apart Just another little lonely broken heart How did you get so cold How did you get so cold

Hey, where did I go wrong? Because I don't wanna stop before the dawn Say goodbye before you leave Say goodbye before you leave Say goodbye before you leave Did it ever occur that you forgave yourself before I did? Did it ever occur that you forgave yourself before I could? So I'm not cool with you I'm done, I'm done, I'm done, I'm running I run, I run, I run, I'm running And it was so magnificent When we had it all Before it seemed to slowly go wrong And now I don't wanna go on, go on, on And how can I forgive you when I don't have the space to I'm a fool of past regrets Where did you leave, know you already left X4 And did it ever occur that you forgave yourself before I did? Did it ever occur that you forgave yourself before I could?