Trouble Child («Court and Spark» 1974, tr.10)

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 [bad word] 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

© 1973; Crazy Crow Music