Alice Cooper

You Drive Me Nervous

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Yeah, you seem so civilized
Your mama's tryin' to run your life
Your daddy's tryin' to pick your wife
Oh no

Yeah, you run around with all that hair
They just don't like those rags you wear
You say I'm gonna pack up my stuff
I'm gonna run away

And then she said
You drive me nervous, nervous
And then I said
You drive me nervous, nervous, nervous, oh

Nervous, nervous, nervous, nervous, whoa-oh-oh
Aaah

You're out of state
You're thrown in jail
You ain't got the bread to pay the bail
Your mom and papa come up and said
"Honey, where did we fail?"

And then you scream
You drive me nervous, nervous
And then I screamed
You drive me nervous, nervous, nervous, oh

Nervous, nervous, nervous, nervous, whoa-oh-oh
You drive me n-n-n-nervous
N-n-n-nervous
You drive me nervous
Whoa

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by Alice Cooper

17y ago

This song is another teenager song. It's about a kid who wants to grow his hair long and wear what he wants but his parents dislike it. The parents try to change him "run his life." They drive him "nervous"/crazy. His life gets messed up and he's thrown in jail but needs his parents to bail him out because he can't afford it. In the end his parents say the typical parental line out of disspointment "where did we fail?"

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