Trouble Child

Song Trouble Child
Artist Joni Mitchell
Album Court And Spark

Lyrics

[00:01.450] Written By
[00:05.055] Joni Mitchell
[00:06.596]
[00:18.037] Up in a sterilized room
[00:20.806] Where they let you be lazy
[00:27.703] Knowing your attitude's all wrong
[00:30.158] And you got to change
[00:31.882] And that's not easy
[00:37.577] Dragon shining with all values known
[00:42.384] Dazzling you-keeping you from your own
[00:47.347] Where is the lion in you to defy him
[00:50.220] When you're this weak
[00:51.396] And this spacey
[01:02.080] So what are you going to do about it
[01:04.562] You can't live life and you can't leave it
[01:11.850] Advice and religion you can't take it
[01:14.984] You can't seem to believe it
[01:21.646] The peacock is afraid to parade
[01:26.295] You're under the thumb of the maid
[01:31.337] You really can't give love in this condition
[01:34.315] Still you know how you need it
[01:39.696] They open and close you
[01:44.581] Then they talk like they know you
[01:47.873] They don't know you
[01:50.015] They're friends and they're foes too
[01:54.273] Trouble child
[01:56.310] Breaking like the waves at Malibu
[02:27.840] So why does it come as such a shock
[02:30.609] To know you really have no one
[02:37.714] Only a river of changing faces
[02:41.868] Looking for an ocean
[02:47.197] They trickle through your leaky plans
[02:52.003] Another dream over the dam
[02:56.810] And you're lying in some room
[02:58.978] Feeling like your right to be human
[03:01.381] Is going over too
[03:05.770] Well some are going to knock you
[03:10.550] And some'll try and clock you
[03:14.965] You know it's really hard
[03:16.950] To talk sense to you
[03:19.850] Trouble child
[03:22.540] Breaking like the waves at Malibu