Trouble Child

Trouble Child Lyrics by 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 gonna knock you
 And some'll try and clock you 
You know it's really hard to talk sense to you
 Trouble child, breaking like the waves at Malibu