I know I'm not the only person who has heard "Trouble Me" by 10,000 Maniacs. There's a good chance, however, that I was the only one singing along softly with it as it played over a grocery store's speakers today.
I'd add "Trouble Me" to the list of songs I've heard in grocery stores that I wasn't expecting. Jesse Colin Young's "Song For Juli," "Since You Asked" by Judy Collins, and Fleetwood Mac's "Sunny Side Of Heaven" have been some of the other biggest surprises.
I'd like to think that whoever programmed "Trouble Me" is a gentle soul. You'd have to be to choose a softly sung, sensitively written non-hit track with lyrics about helping people in need while you're still relatively young and strong. "Trouble Me" was the first song I heard by 10,000 Maniacs, and back in 1989, I thought, "If this is typical of Natalie Merchant and company's efforts, this group must have a respectable following among introverts and kind people."
I'd never have guessed that I'd hear "Trouble Me" 37 years later while grocery shopping, but apparently, at least one other kind soul in the world hears what I hear in it.
