Lyrics Trouble Child - Joni Mitchell

Trouble Child

Up in a sterilized room
Where they let you be lazy
Knowing your attitudes all wrong
And you got to change
And thats not easy
Dragon shining with all values known
Dazzling you-keeping you from your own
Where is the lion in you to defy him
When youre this weak
And this spacey…
So what are you going to do about it You cant live life and you cant leave it Advice and religion-you cant take it You cant seem to believe it The peacock is afraid to parade
Youre under the thumb of the maid
You really cant give love in this condition
Still you know how you need it They open and close you
Then they talk like they know you
They dont know you
Theyre friends and theyre foes too
Trouble child
Breaking like the waves at malibu
So why does it come as such a shock
To know you really have no one
Only a river of changing faces
Looking for an ocean
They trickle through your leaky plans
Another dream over the dam
And youre lying in some room
Feeling like your right to be human
Is going over too
Well some are going to knock you
And somell try to clock you
You know its really hard
To talk sense to you
Trouble child
Breaking like the waves at malibu