Kurt Weill
Trouble Man / Stay Well
[IRINA]
Since you came first to me
Dear one, glad one
You bring all the worst to me
Near one, sad one
There's trouble in your coming
And trouble in your laughter
There's trouble in your going
And trouble after
Since you were near to me
Lost one, mad one
No other is dear to me
Loved one, bad one
I love your dark silence
Love your bright laughter
I love the trouble you bring mе
The crying after
Trouble man, troublе man since you've been gone
Somehow I manage living here alone
All day long you don't catch me weeping
But oh God help me when it comes time for sleeping
When it comes time for sleeping here alone
Trouble man, trouble man walking out there
Maybe in a strange town, God knows where
Maybe in a strange place, hurrying and walking
Listen to my blood and my bones here talking
Listen to the blood in my hands and feet
Finding you out in a far, strange street
Finding the footsteps out where you ran
Asking, "Aren't you coming home, trouble man?"
Trouble man! Trouble man!
Trouble man! Trouble man!
Saying, "All day long you don't catch me weeping
But oh God help me when it comes time for sleeping
When it comes time for sleeping here alone"
Trouble man! Trouble man!
If I tell truth to you, my love, my own
Grief is your gift to me, grief alone
Wild passion at midnight
Wild anger at dawn
Yet when you're absent
I weep, you're gone
Stay well, oh keeper of my love
Go well throughout all your days
Your star, the luckiest star above
Your ways, the luckiest ways
Since unto you my one love is given
And since with you it will remain
Though you bring fear at dawn, despair at even
Stay well, come well to my door again