Trouble Child Lyrics - Travelogue - Joni Mitchell

Up in a sterilized room 

where they let you be lazy 

knowing your attitude's all wrong 

and you got to change 

and that's 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 you're this weak 

and this spacey... 

So what are you going to do about it 

you can't live life and you can't leave it 

advice and religion-you can't take it 

you can't seem to believe it 

the peacock is afraid to parade 

you're under the thumb of the maid 

you really can't 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 don't know you 

they're friends and they're 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 you're lying in some room 

feeling like your right to be human 

is going over too 

well some are going to knock you 

and some'll try to clock you 

you know it's really hard 

to talk sense to you 

trouble child 

breaking like the waves at malibu 

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