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 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