Trouble

Back before the buildings
Were worth their weather weight in gold
I'd have been a child
But the city it was older then
Those will be the days you'll find
I drag behind me now

If every day's a warning
Oh well, we never heed it right
Sure the towers were standing
But one was darkness and one was light
We took our chances
Went to Valentine's dances

Once upon a gamble
I met a man who couldn't win
Just another driver
With carbon copy sin
It might have been a thing he read
But what he said to me was

"Everybody's trouble
That's a bet you won't lose
Trouble that you're born with
And the trouble that you choose"

I know that you see me as the girl
But by the the way
Half the time I'm just the key
That comes and locks the girl away
File that will all the hits
The back flips and party tricks {?}

Were you born a miracle
On the slick and rocky coast?
Were you born a second child
Who your father loved the most?
Were your first and crooked steps
The best of any mile?

Did you grow to be
The mild master of the feast?
Did you learn to sleep
Beneath a quilt of your beliefs?
And would you know this
If you woke up cold and {?}

"Everybody's trouble
That's a bet you won't lose
Trouble that you're born with
And the trouble that you choose"