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 gonna 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

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