Uncorrected Personality Traits

Robyn Hitchcock · I Wanna Go Backwards [2007]

Uncorrected personality traits

That seem whimsical in a child

May prove to be ugly in

A fully grown adult



Lack of involvement with the father

Or over-involvement with the mother

Can result in lack of ability

To relate to sexual peers



And in homosexual leanings

Narcissism, transsexuality --

Girls from the waist up

Men from the waist down --

Attempts to be your own love object

Reconcile your parents to you

By becoming both at once



Even Marilyn Monroe was a man

But this tends to get over looked

By our mother-fixated

Overweight, sexist media



So, uncorrected personality traits

That seem whimsical in a child

May prove to be ugly in

A fully grown adult



If you give in to them

Every time they cry

They will become little tyrants

But they won't remember why

Then when they are thwarted

By people in later life

They will become psychotic

And they won't make an ideal husband or wife



The spoiled baby grows into

The escapist teenager who's

The adult alchoholic who's

The middle-aged suicide



Oi

So



Uncorrected personality traits

That seem whimsical in a child

May prove to be ugly in

A fully grown adult