[Verse 1]

Up in a sterilized room

Where they let you be lazy

Knowin' your attitude's all wrong

And you gotta change and that's not easy

Dragon shining with all values known

Dazzling you, keepin' you from your own

Where is the lion in you to defy him

When you're this weak and this spacey?

[Verse 2]

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

[Chorus]

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, breakin' like the waves at Malibu

[Verse 3]

So why does it come as such a shock

To know you really have no one

Only a river of changing faces

Lookin' for an ocean

They trickle through your leaky plans

Another dream over the dam

And you're lyin' in some room

Feelin' like your right to be human is goin' over too

[Chorus]

Well, some are gonna knock you

And some'll try and clock you

You know it's really hard to talk sense to you

Trouble child, breakin' like the waves at Malibu