Trouble Child - Joni Mitchell

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