Troubling Lyrics

(I’m a student on a school trip in Germany. There are around 30 students packed into one coach, from about 13 to 17 years old, and since it’s a very long drive the teachers are letting us plug our music players into the coach’s speakers. A song comes on that everyone knows, and as we are all music students, we all sing along.)

Everyone: “I knew you were trouble when you walked in, and now I’m lying on the cold hard ground!”

(On cue, all the students scream as loud as they can, making the teachers all jump and the coach driver actually swerve in surprise. Someone unplugs the music before we can get to the next chorus and a teacher comes to the second floor of the coach, where the students sit.)

Teacher: “I think that’s enough singing for now.”