Robyn Hitchcock - Uncorrected Personality Traits Lyrics

Uncorrected personality traits
That seem whimsical in a child
May prove to be ugly in a fully-grown adult

Lack of involvement with the father or
Over involvement with the mother
Can result in lack of ability to relate to sexual peers

And in homosexual leanings, narcissism, transsexuality
Girls from the waist up, men from the waist down
Attempts to be your own love object
Reconcile both your parents by becoming both at once

Even Marilyn Monroe was a man but
This tends to get overlooked by
Our mother-fixated overweight, sexist media

So, uncorrected personality traits
That seem whimsical in a child
May prove to be ugly in a fully-grown adult

If you give in to them every time they cry
They will become little tyrants but they won't remember why
Then when they are thwarted
By people in later life
They will become psychotic
And they won't make an ideal husband or wife

The spoiled baby grows into
The escapist teenager who's
The adult alcoholic who's
The middle-aged suicide
Oi

So, uncorrected personality traits
That seem whimsical in a child
May prove to be ugly in a fully-grown adult