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Joni Mitchell lyrics : "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 pea@@#! 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

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