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by Joni Mitchell


Trouble Child- Joni Mitchell

Chords:
: 002010
: 24442
: 032010
: 03X232
: 000233
: 133211
: 003210
: 3X0003
: 000433
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Intro:
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Up  in the sterilized room
           
Where they let you be lazy
                             
Know-ing your attitudes are wrong
              
And you gotta change, and it’s not easy

                               
Drag-ons shining with all values known
                                        
Daz-zling you, keeping you from your own
                             
Where is the lion in you to de-fy him
                 
When you’re this weak and this spacey?

   
So what are you gonna do about it
              
You can’t live life and you can’t leave it
                               
Ad-vice and religion you can’t take it
          
You can’t seem to believe it

                           
The pea-cock is afraid to pa-rade
                                   
You’re un-der the thumb of a maid
                                      
You real-ly can’t give love in this con-di-tion
          
Still you know how you need it

                  
Then 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,
                            
  Brea-king like the waves at Malibu

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So why does it come as such a shock
                    
  To know you really have no one?
                        
On-ly a river of changing fa-ces

   Looking for an ocean

                               
They tric-kle through your leaky plans
                            
Another dream over the dam
          
And you’re ly-ing in some room
                             
Feeling like your right to be hu-man
              
Is going over too

                      
But 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
                           
   Breaking like the waves at Malibu

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