What Trouble Is

From The Bills’ 2016 album “Trail of Tales

Words and Music by:
CHRIS FRYE & ADRIAN DOLAN (SOCAN)


You don’t know the meaning
You don’t know the word
You don’t know what trouble is 

Herald Street delivered a man
Who had run for the border
Across the Strait with no possessions
And his children with dying lessons

Abandoned soul scorned with treason
Accusation with no reason
His ascension made from nothing
And filled with love and hope and trust and 

So climb up over here
And dry your privileged tears 

Cause you don’t know the meaning
You don’t know the word
You don’t know what trouble is 

Upon Mount Doug I met a child
Who’d been born of destruction
Left his town land for the forest
Where he stumbled and he foraged

And the weather did forsake him
Twelve hundred hearts were not mistaken
And even with all of them breaking
He still grins when my hand takes his 

So climb up over here
We’ll dry your uptown tears 
Cause you don’t know the meaning
You don’t know the word
You don’t know what trouble is