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There’s Always Trouble

There’s always trouble
in a fool’s paradise
There’s always trouble
but the fool don’t realize
Trouble comes knocking
just when trouble wants
trouble knock down your front door
and take everything you got
There’s always trouble
in a fool’s paradise…

THERE’S ALWAYS TROUBLE (In a Fool’s Paradise)

9/7/90

There’s always trouble
in a fool’s paradise
There’s always trouble
but the fool don’t realize

Trouble comes knocking
just when trouble wants
trouble knock down your front door
and take everything you got

There’s always trouble
but the fool don’t realize
there’s always trouble
in a fool’s paradise

There’s always suffering,
plenty to go around
but give it to some other guy,
on some other side of town

I don’t know my neighbors,
but they seem nice enough
and if the Insane Crips come and blow them away makes
it hard to maintain my bluff

There’s always trouble…

Trouble stay out of my backyard
I can pretend it don’t exist
sure enough I feel real bad
for that poor fool the trouble hits

but it really aint none of my affair
I fold the paper away
cause I sure enough know I don’t wanta read bout
the trouble headed thisa way

There’s always trouble…

Theres always turmoil
in the heart of Babylon
but you go where the gold is
and the rest just tag along

theres always losers
in the race to stay alive
theres always casualties
but sometimes the strong survive

There’s always trouble…

Angel’s Vacation

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Angel's Vacation

he came down to earth near Phoenix
in the middle of the summertime
he walked to the first bar he saw
and ordered whiskey, beer, and wine

(or was that Tucson… he could never remember)

ANGEL’S VACATION

He tried to do what was right
but it always turned out wrong
the heavenly host was not impressed
and he had to blow out of town

he came down to earth near Phoenix
in the middle of the summertime
he walked to the first bar he saw
and ordered whiskey, beer, and wine

An angel came down from heaven
hoping to get away
he stewed in the hotel bar all night
and baked by the pool all day

He pushed the desk clerk to a breakdown
and drove the other guests away
he punched out the hotel detective
and ran off with the pretty dark eyed maid

They laid out on the lam for 40 days and nights
and on the 41st they had to rest
the pretty dark eyed maid was all worn out
and the angel was scared to death

he knew they’d have no trouble tracking him down
angels have this certain glow
and when they said it was time to leave
brother, then it’s time to go

An angel came down from heaven
hoping to get away
he stewed in the hotel bar all night
and baked by the pool all day

[related song: Goin’ Home ]

(This one’s for Don.)

World So Big

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The world is so big
then again it’s all so small…
I might be in your arms tomorrow night
or I might never make it home to you at all.

I wanted to suggest the self-exiled lover… consumed with yearning yet unwilling or unable to return home. Pride, fatalism, anger…

I knew a guy like that once. I worked with him for a short while here in Long Beach. He would talk about the family he left “to find work” years before, talk about them as though they were a thousand miles away, ten thousand. He’d never seen them again — but he thought of them every day, wondered how his kids were. Wondered if his woman was with another man.

One day I asked him where he came from and I was surprised when he said, Long Beach.

So I asked him if he’d been traveling when he met the wife he’d left behind. He looked at me funny for a second. She lives in North Long Beach, he said.

World So Big*

The world is so big
then again the world’s so small…
I might be in your arms tomorrow night
or I might never make it home to you at all

True Love, baby, the bottom drops out
and then you fall…
It only happens one time baby
but if you’re lucky maybe not at all

I could live a thousand lifetimes
I’d never forget a single one of your lies…
I could die a million times
ant the ghost of you would still draw me back to life

*name changed from “The World Is So Big” (9/25/2007)
(C)2007,TKMajor