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 s*xual fears, and in homos*xual
leanings, narcissism, trans*xuality (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 overlooked by our
mother-fixated, overweight, s*xist 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. (Oy.)
So:
Uncorrected personality traits that seem whimsical in a child may prove to
be ugly in a fully grown adult.

Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains

Jan 1995

1. Nocturne (Prelude)
2. Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl
3. Cathedral
4. Uncorrected Personality Traits
5. Sounds Great When You're Dead
6. Flavour Of Night
7. Ye Sleeping Knights Of Jesus
8. Mellow Together
9. Winter Love
10. The Bones In The Ground
11. My Favourite Buildings
12. I Used To Say I Love You
13. This Could Be The Day
14. Trams Of Old London
15. Furry Green Atom Bowl
16. Heart Full Of Leaves
17. Autumn Is Your Last Chance
18. I Often Dream Of Trains