Todd Snider Trouble 1994

Todd Snider is a brilliant and successful songwriter and performer who can pen humorous songs as well as heartbreak and serious social commentary. His snarky satire is almost always spot on. He's been cranking out solid, critically acclaimed records for 30 years. Sometimes there's a band, sometimes it's just him and a guitar.

From his 1994 debut Songs for the Daily Planet, here's Todd with one of my favorite cheatin' songs, with the prefect line "A woman like you walks into a place like this, You can almost hear the promises break".

You're gonna get me into trouble

I knew it right off the bat

You're gonna get me into trouble

If you keep lookin' like that

Well, I may be alone, but there's someone at home

I just know I'm makin' a mistake

A woman like you walks in a place like this

You can almost hear the promises break

You're gonna make me need an alibi

You're gonna make me have to watch my back

You're gonna make me have to tell a bunch of lies

You're gonna make me have to cover my tracks

Well, I told her I wouldn't, I thought I couldn't

Now I'm so ashamed

When I look at you, that's all that I can do

To think about what's-her-name

You're gonna get me into trouble

I knew it right off the bat

You're gonna get me in trouble

If you keep lookin' like that

Don't look like that, baby...no, no, no, no

You're gonna mix my emotions

And you're gonna tangle my net

You're gonna make me do somethin'

That I'm afraid I won't regret

I may be alone, but there's someone at home

I just know I'm makin' a mistake

A woman like you walks in a place like this

You can almost hear the promises break

You're gonna get me in trouble

You're gonna get me into trouble

You know you're gonna get me, you know you're gonna get me,

You know you're gonna get me in trouble, now don't ya?