I found these lyrics online and checked them against the video at YouTube:


LAST YEAR'S TROUBLES
Suzanne Vega

Last year's troubles
Last year's troubles

Last year's troubles are so old-fashioned:
The robber on the highway, the pirate on the seas.
Maybe it's the clothing that's so entertaining,
The earrings and the swashbuckling blouses that please.

Here we have heroes of times that have passed now.
Nobody these days has that kind of chin.
Over there the petticoats of ladies of virtue.
You can hardly tell them from the petticoats of sin

Last year's troubles
Last year's troubles

Look at all the waifs of Dickensian England.
Why is it their suffering is more picturesque?
Must be 'cause their rags are so very Victorian.
The ones here at home just don't give it their best,

Last year's troubles they shine up so prettily.
They gleam with a luster they don't have today.
Here it's just dirty and violent and troubling,
Et cetera.

Last year's troubles
Last year's troubles

Trouble is still trouble and evil's still evil.
Sometimes we wonder, is there more now or less?
If we had a tool or could tally the handfuls,
Measure for measure, it's the same, would be my guess.

Last year's troubles
Last year's troubles