Even Marilyn Monroe was a man

Here's today's song. It popped up on the iPod on the ride to work and I hit replay four times. From Robyn Hitchcock's brilliant I Often Dream of Trains.

Uncorrected Personality Traits

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,
Narcicissm, transsexuality.
Girls from the waist up,
Men from the waist down.
Attempts to be your own love object.

Reconcile your parents to you
By becoming both at once.

Even Marilyn Monroe was a man but this
Tends to get over looked 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.

This spoiled baby grows into
The escapist teenager who's
The adult alcoholic who's
The middle-age suicide.

Oy, so. Uncorrected personality traits that seem
Whimsical in a child may prove
To be ugly in a fully grown adult.