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When You’re Near Me I Have Difficulty

This version of When You’Re Near Me I Have Difficulty was released by Xtc in 1979.

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When you’re near me I have difficulty respirating
When you’re near me I have difficulty concentrating
When you’re near me I have difficulty standing upright
When you’re near me I have difficulty sleeping at night

I used to stand proud like a sphinx
In a noble immovable state
Then your heart nailed me under a jinx
Now I’m feeling like a jellyfish
Just a spineless wobbly jellyfish
And it’s great, great, so great

I used to stand high like a pine
Just a piece of emotionless wood
When you put your body near mine
Now I’m feeling like a jellyfish
And it’s good, good, so good
I used to be an iceman
Living in iceman town
So I’m warning all you cool cool icemen
You’d better be prepared to be melted right down
down
When you’re near me I have difficulty

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About Lyrics and When You’Re Near Me I Have Difficulty by Xtc

When you decide to study the lyrics to When You’Re Near Me I Have Difficulty, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Xtc. Some of the lyrics to When You’Re Near Me I Have Difficulty have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Xtc and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to When You’Re Near Me I Have Difficulty if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to When You’Re Near Me I Have Difficulty" means the words set to the music of When You’Re Near Me I Have Difficulty, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Xtc. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to When You’Re Near Me I Have Difficulty and the lyrics to When You’Re Near Me I Have Difficulty are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Xtc who came here looking just for the lyrics to When You’Re Near Me I Have Difficulty, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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