I Get Nervous Lyrics

Now I can't read, but you know I used to
Now I don't think, but I think I ought to
Now I don't care, because I don't want to
And I don't feel because it became too painful

I get nervous
It's not an attractive, attractive quality
And I can't help, help myself
Only you can, you can help me

Saw someone kissing someone I'd love to kiss
Saw someone failing something they tried to do
I can't expect, I don't normally get
And I don't feel it became too painful.

I get nervous
It's not an attractive, attractive quality
And I can't help, help myself
Only you can, you can help me

Spoken Word (Veronique Martin) in English & French

\"Who was the Sphinx? A strange character, half-man half-beast. In Greek
mythology, he lived on a rock just outside Thebes and no traveller could
escape him. To each passer-by he would ask the same question: â??What creature
is in the morning on four legs, at noon on two and in the evening on three?'
The answer was simply: man. What confused passers-by was not only the strange
way the enigma was formulated, but also the fact that man is a profound
mystery to himself.

And this has not changed: we understand more and more things that happen in
nature and in our bodies, but the complex world of our thoughts and emotions
often remains a big question. Perhaps then the most important and occult
(that is hidden, secret) aspect of the question of the Sphinx is simply: what
is the essence of Man?

Like the Sphinx, Man is double: at the same time material and spiritual,
scientific and religious, rational and imaginative, barbaric and civilised,
destructive and creative. These opposites are not contraries; instead, they
complement each other. They are the two sides of the coin on which is
impressed the archetype of Man.

Creation, which tries to express abstract ideas or impulses in a physical
work, can help us unify these opposites in us. And it is not the privilege of
an artistic or intellectual elite; it is open to all.\"


\"Qui était le Sphinx? Un drá´le de personnage, moiety animal moitié humain.
Dans la mythologie grecque, il vivait sur un rocher aux portes de Thá¨bes et
nul voyageur ne pouvait l\'éviter. A chaque passant il posait la máªme charade
et il dévorait ceux qui ne trouvaient pas la réponse. La question était la
suivante: \"Quelle créature est le matin sur quatre pattes, le midi sur deux
et le soir sur trois?\" La réponse était juste l\'homme. Ce qui trompait les
passants c\'était non seulement la formulation étrange de l\'énigme, mais aussi
le fait que l\'homme est un profond mystá¨re pour lui-máªme. Et cela n\'a pas
changé: nous comprenons de plus en plus de choses qui se passent dans la
nature et dans notre corps, mais le monde complexe de nos pensées et de nos
émotions reste dans bien des cas un grand point d\'interrogation.

L\'aspect le plus important et le plus occulte (c\'est á  dire caché, secret) de
la question du sphinx, c'est donc peut-áªtre tout simplement: quelle est la
nature de l\'homme? Comme le Sphinx, l\'homme a une nature double: á  la fois
matérielle et spirituelle, scientifique et religieuse, simple et complexe,
rationnelle et imaginative, barbare et civilisée, destructrice et créatrice.
Ces opposés ne sont pas des contraires, mais plutá´t des compléments: les deux
faces d\'une máªme médaille sur laquelle s\'inscrit l\'archétype de l\'Homme.

La création qui tente d'exprimer par une oeuvre physique une idée ou une
impulsion abstraite peut nous aider á  unifier ces deux pá´les en nous. Et elle
n'est pas l'apanage d'une élite artistique ou intellectuelle, elle est
ouverte á  tous.\"