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Artist: Melissa Etheridge
Canonical path: /melissa-etheridge/nervous
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Nervous
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Nervous
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They don't much care for you
No they don't like your kind
The way you look
walk
Or the way you talk
The way you always speak your mind
But you want to be my friend
You're not anything like them
You can show me things I've never seen
You say ooo child what a waste
if we never took a taste
Of everything we find in between
Ooo you make me nervous
Ooo you make me want to run away and hide
You make me nervous
When you look at me I just can't lie
Ooo you make me nervous tonight
Yeah Feels so wrong and feels so right
feels like insanity
O I keep acting strange hoping that I'll change
Waking in a sweat from a burning dream
And then look at all my friends
I keep on pleasing them
Caught up in the chaos of their minds
Ooo child the fear I have
Keeps me bound and keeps me gagged
Pushing harder all the time
Ooo you make me nervous
Ooo you make me want to run away and hide
Ooo you make me nervous
When you look at me I just can't lie
I want to shovel all the blame
I want to shoot out all the lights
I want to call you names and start a fight
Because you make me nervous tonight
Heart pounds hands wet mouth dry
I shake I scream I cry
No eat no sleep all night
I build my lonely cell
With secrets I can't tell
O frozen in my fright
Ooo you make me nervous tonight
You make me nervous
You make me nervous
You make me nervous
O you make me want to run away and hide
Ooo you make me nervous
When you look at me I just can't lie
I want to shovel all the blame
I want to shoot out all the lights
I want to call you names and start a fight
O You make me nervous
Nervous
Nervous
Eww you make me nervous tonight
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