Trouble

## Music Video

"**Trouble**" is a song performed by Halsey. It is featured as the fifth and closing track on her debut EP, *Room 93*, and was released on October 27, 2014 through Astralwerks Records. It is also featured on the Japanese edition of her debut album, *Badlands*.

## Background

Before the actual release of the song a teaser for an apparent music video was uploaded to Halsey's *YouTube* channel on October 22, 2014. However, similar to "Empty Gold" the song never received a full music video and according to Halsey "they were only ever meant to be teasers. Visualettes. Little bits of the storyline."

In the *Room 93* Spotify commentary, Halsey explained the song and why only its stripped version was officially released:

"*So we had a couple of versions of 'Trouble' that were really big- and vindicated-sounding, but we kind of decided to just put this demo version on the EP instead because we felt like it had a lot more feeling. I think "Trouble" is one of the most emotional pre-chorus, choruses, I ever written in my life: 'Let's cause a little trouble/Oh, you make me feel so weak/I bet you kiss your knuckles/Right before they touch my cheek.' And that's a metaphor in itself, and it means that someone who takes pleasure and takes some, like, sadistic joy in making you feel bad and hurting you in a mental way. And I kinda took that and put it in physical words so you could really understand how sadistic and twisted it is to be in a relationship where someone enjoys hurting you and that's that line: 'I bet you kiss your knuckles before you touch my cheek.' It's this kinda like pompous, there's like a smirk, there's a smugness in this sense of like, this person is proud of what they're doing to you. But then the chorus is very vindicated and it says you know: 'I've got my mind made up this time.' You know it's about having control and wanting to leave and that's the thing that I sing about a lot. There's a lot of honesty in what I sing, but I also make sure that I never play the victim, and that my protagonist always has the option and the intention to leave and take care of themselves, and that's kinda what 'Trouble' is to me.*"
—Halsey via Spotify

## Official versions

* EP (Stripped) version - 3:35
* Lost Kings remix - 3:06
* 1 Mic 1 Take - 4:11

## Cross-references

* The lyric "I bet you kiss your knuckles, Right before they touch my cheek" is echoed in "Experiment On Me": "Four fingers from a knuckle sandwich".

## Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Would you bleed for me?

Lick it off my lips like you needed me?

Would you sit me on a couch with your fingers in my mouth?

You look so cool when you're reading me

[Pre-Chorus]

Let's cause a little trouble

Oh, you make me feel so weak

I bet you kiss your knuckles

Right before they touch my cheek

[Chorus]

But I've got my mind made up this time

'Cause there's a menace in my bed

Can you see his silhouette?

Can you see his silhouette?

Can you see his silhouette?

And I've got my mind made up this time

Go on and light a cigarette

Set a fire in my head

Set a fire in my head tonight

[Verse 2]

Would you lie for me?

Cross your sorry heart and hope to die for me?

Would you pin me to a wall?

Would you beg or would you crawl?

Stick a needle in your hungry eyes for me?

[Pre-Chorus]

Let's cause a little trouble

Oh, you make me feel so weak

I bet you kiss your knuckles

Right before they touch my cheek

[Chorus]

But I've got my mind made up this time

'Cause there's a menace in my bed

Can you see his silhouette?

Can you see his silhouette?

Can you see his silhouette?

And I've got my mind made up this time

Go on and light a cigarette

Set a fire in my head

Set a fire in my head tonight

[Bridge]

Don't forget me, don't forget me

I wouldn't leave you if you'd let me

When you met me, when you met me

You told me you were gonna get me

Don't forget me, don't forget me

I wouldn't leave you if you'd

[Chorus]

And I've got my mind made up this time

'Cause there's a menace in my bed

Can you see his silhouette?

Can you see his silhouette?

Can you see his silhouette?

And I've got my mind made up this time

Go on and light a cigarette

Set a fire in my head

Set a fire in my head tonight, tonight, tonight

[Outro]

Set a fire in my head tonight

## References

1. ↑ *Twitter* - @troubledcolors - "if you've ever wondered about the empty gold and trouble "music video" teasers!"
2. ↑ *Spotify* - Room 93 (Commentary) - EP by Halsey

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