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 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 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