Uploaded June 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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"Trouble and Love" by Mary Gauthier
Album: Trouble and Love (2014)

CREDITS
Songwriters: Mary Gauthier and Scott Nolan.
Background Vocals: Ashley Cleveland, Beth Nielsen Chapman and Darrell Scott
Video created by Kristen Hall / Write Away Films

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LYRICS
At the Downtowner, near the Roosevelt Baths
Forty-eight fifty if you pay in cash
Spanish television up through the floor
Desk clerk don’t look up when I walk by anymore

Blizzard outside, blizzard in her heart
Lonely travelers and cheap motel art
Snow is falling on snow that fell on snow
I said hold on baby please don’t let go

Trying to catch my breath, she moved so fast
Rumble strips, red lights, broken glass
Twisted steel, sirens, and blood
Love and trouble, trouble and love

A head full of dreams, a chest full of hurt
Friends say walk on; it’s more trouble than it’s worth
But my will is gone and my head hangs low
It ain’t the leaving, it’s the way you go

Trying to catch my breath, she moved so fast
Rumble strips, red lights, broken glass
Twisted steel, sirens, and blood
Love and trouble, trouble and love
Love and trouble, trouble and love
Love and trouble, trouble and love
Love and trouble, trouble and love