Trouble Child — текст песни (Joni Mitchell)

TROUBLE CHILD

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