Aspie songs
Another song comes to mind
A Song by Blur
It was B-Side to Charmless Man
It's only two verses
When he speaks to her
Without looking at her
Using the driest of words
With his mind on what's on the telly
The rumous pass on
As he staggers through the air
Knowing he won't get home
To the world of people in cars alone
Doo-doo-doo
Thats it
This has been discussed before here and I still think the ultimate Aspie song is "Alien" by Atlanta Rhythm Section.
When I was growing up, this song really spoke to me. It described everything I was feeling, and what I hoped for.
Here it is:
Down crowded streets he walks alone
He's a stranger out of place
A number not a face
All day long, he's all alone
He's feeling like an alien
Feeling like he don't belong
Have mercy cried the alien
Help him find his way back home
The feelings that he feels, he can't explain
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, they're all the same
He's lost and all alone, A heart without a home
Standing like a statue, in the rain
He's feeling like an alien
Feeling like he don't belong
Have mercy cried the alien
Help him find his way back home
Now and then we all are aliens
feeling like we don't belong
Have mercy cried the alien
Help him find his way back home
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PrisonerSix
"I am not a number, I am a free man!"
Purify - Lacuna Coil
No more
Self destruction that I predicted
Not a long time ago
Petrified
Thoughts so far from me
The power of my justice blows me away
It's just the case to repeat
What I've never said to you before
Celebrate
I'm alive again
You don't expect from me
This chain reaction
You can't imagine from me
This great affection
See the structure of my pride
Wasn't easy to build it away from this
I never walked away from you
I never walked alone
A pleasure makes me vibe again tonight
I'm just thinking how fine it is to feel myself so fine again
Celebrate
I'm alive again
It's time to turn the page and start
And then
Don't you think that it's time
To convince yourself it's over?
Celebrate
I'm alive again
Here's another good one;
Falling Again - Lacuna Coil
I search in these lines
I've not the answer
I'm crying and I don't know
watching the sky
I search an answer
I'm free, free to be
I'm not another liar
I just want to be myself... myself
And now the beat inside me
is a sort of a cold breeze and I've
never any feeling inside
ruining me...
bring my body
carry it into another world
I know I live... but like a stone I'm falling down
I pray, looking into the sky
I can feel this rain
right now it's falling on me
fly, I just want to fly
life is all mine
some days I cry alone,
but I know I'm not the only one
I'm here, another day is gone
I don't want to die...?
Please be there when I'll arrive, don't cry... please
All her lyrics are really deep and meaningful. Not many singers like that.
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We are formless therefore we fear it
And because we are formless we revere it
Thus we are slain
I heard a new song today that sums up how I feel in social situations perfectly. It's called Fake It by Seether (one of my fav bands)
Seether - Fake It lyrics
Who's to know if your soul will fade at all
The one you sold to fool the world
You lost your self-esteem along the way
Yeah
Good god your comin up with reasons
Good god your dragging it out
Good god its the changing of the seasons
I feel so raped
SO FOLLOW ME DOWN
And just fake it if your out of direction
Fake it if you don't belong
Fake it if you feel like a?
Woah your such a f***in hypocrite
And you should know that the lies wont hide your falls
No sense in hiding all of yours
You gave up on your dreams along the way
Yeah
Good god your comin up with reasons
Good god your dragging it out
Good god its the changing of the seasons
I feel so raped
SO FOLLOW ME DOWN
And just fake it if your out of direction
Fake it if you don't belong
Fake it if you feel like a?
Woah your such a f***in hipocrite
Whoah Whoah
I can fake with the best of anyone
I can fake with the best of em all
I can fake with the best of anyone
I can fake it all
Who's to know if your soul will fade at all
The one you sold to fool the world
You lost your self-esteem along the way
Yeah
Good god your comin up with reasons
Good god your dragging it out
Good god its the changing of the seasons
I feel so raped
SO FOLLOW ME DOWN
And just fake it if your out of direction
Fake it if you don't belong
Fake it if you feel like a?
Woah your such a f***in hypocrite
Fake it if your out of direction
Fake it if you don't belong
Fake it if you feel like a?
Woah your such a f***in hypocrite
Keep Talking is a good one. I believe they used Steven Hawking's voice for it.
Ramble On by Led Zeppelin
You Oughta Be in Love by Dave Dobbyn (considering the fact that many of us don't fall in love)
Pinball Wizard by The Who
You're The Voice by John Farnham
All Kinds of People by John Farnham
Fool in the Rain by Led Zeppelin
Oingo Boingo, a popular band in the 80's-90's in Southern California
Danny Elfman, "nightmare before christmas" and many other movie scores was the lead singer/songwriter
"I'm on the outside"
They laugh at me aloud
They say I'm just a clown
That I ain't got no pride
I'm on the outside
The girls look really cute
They really make it work
They think I'm just a jerk
I'm on the outside
I never could sit still
I never was too hip
I never caught the ride
I'm on the outside
I'm on the outside, I'm on the outside now
This is where it all begins right here
On the outside lookin' in, I'm on the outside
I never was a punk
I never shot junk
I never even tried
Counter culture passed me right by
(I'm on the outside)
Don't talk to debutantes
Don't eat in restaurants
The patrons sit and stare
The waiters make wise cracks behind my back
(I'm on the outside)
Teachers there in school
They flunked me by the rule
They say I had no motivation, brains or dedication
I guess the imbeciles were right I'm on the outside
I'm on the outside, I'm on the outside now
This is where it all begins on the outside looking in
Looking in
At you
I'm just an alien through and through
Tryin' to make believe I'm you
Tryin' to fit
Just a stranger on the outside looking in
The disco makes me sick I
Wear the wrong clothes
I say the wrong things
You know I can't dance
My feet are much too wide (I'm on the outside)
You think you set the trends
You wear your hair just right
Your clothes are out-a-sight
Your house is modern really kitch
You get so macho when you're with your b***h
(I'm on the outside)
I see them go to work
I see them go to sleep
I see them on T.V.
I see them laugh and cry
I'm on the outside. I'm on the outside. I'm on the outside
Boingo rocked! anyone else ever listen to Boingo?
Luka by Suzanne Vega
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luka_%28song%29
The song is about child abuse, but the child she wrote the song about may have been Aspie.
Maybe it's because I'm crazy
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Taking Back Sunday - "My Blue Heaven"
Two sides twist and then collide;
You're calling off the guards (Am I coming?)
I'm coming through. (Am I coming?)
Adulterous conditioned to a spin cycled submission,
You know, sometimes it just feels better to give in.
(Sometimes, it just feels better to give in.)
And it's all too familiar
And it happens all the time.
All the cards begin to stack up,
Twisting heartache into fine
Little pieces that avoid an awful crime,
But it's you I can't deny.
(You I can't deny.)
Dull heat rises from the sheets.
I'm both a patient boy,
Well, and a jealous man. (Am I coming?)
My double standardized suspicion
Is remedied, oh, my blue heaven,
Sometimes, it just feels better to give in.
(Sometimes, it just feels better to give in.)
And it's all too familiar
And it happens all the time.
All the cards begin to stack up,
Twisting heartache into fine
Little pieces that avoid an awful crime,
But it's you I can't deny.
(You I can't deny.)
We swing and we sway
As this tiny voice in
My head starts to sing
You're safe, child, you are safe.
(You're safe, child, you are safe.)
You're safe, child, you are safe.
We swing and we sway
As this tiny voice in
My head starts to sing
You're safe, child, you are safe.
You're safe, child, you are ..
safe (safe), safe (safe),
You are safe.
We swing and we sway
As this tiny voice in
My head starts to sing
You're safe, child, you are safe. (Am I coming?)
You're safe, child, you are safe. (Am I --)
Coming through?
Is this all too familiar?
Does it happen all the time?
I'm just asking you to hear me.
Could you please, just once, just hear me?
More then anything you wanted to be right.
Still it's you, you, it's you I can't deny.
(You I can't deny.)
It's you I can't deny.
Radiohead - "Karma Police"
Karma police, arrest this man
He talks in maths
He buzzes like a fridge
He's like a detuned radio
Karma police, arrest this girl
Her Hitler hairdo is
Making me feel ill
And we have crashed her party
This is what you get
This is what you get
This is what you get when you mess with us
Karma Police
I've given all I can
It's not enough
I've given all I can
But we're still on the payroll
This is what you get
This is what you get
This is what you get when you mess with us
And for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself
Phew, for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself
For for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself
Phew, for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself
Limp Bizkit - "Boiler" (to me, it feels like being in a relationship with someone who abuses ppl's weaknesses, in my case AS)
Looks like I'm gonna do everything myself
Maybe I could use some help but hell,
You want something done right, you gotta do it yourself
Maybe life is up and down but my life's been (what?)
Till now I crawled up your butt somehow and that's when things got turned around
I used to be alive
Now I feel pathetic and now I get it
What's done is done you just leave it alone and don't regret it
But sometimes, some things turn into dumb things
And that's when you put your foot down.
Why did I have to go and meet somebody like you? (like you)
Why did you have to go and hurt somebody like me? (like me)
How could you do somebody like that? (like that)
Hope you know that I'm never coming back (never coming back)
Looks like I'm gonna do everything myself (everything myself)
Maybe I could use some help but hell,
If you want something done right, you just do it yourself (got it?)
Maybe life is up and down but my life's been (what?)
Till now (got it) I crawled up your butt somehow (got it)
And that's when s**t got turned around (got it)
I used to be alive, I'm so pathetic but now I get it, what's done is done
I know you, just leave it alone and don't regret it
But sometimes some things turn into dumb things
And that's when you put your foot down.
Why did I have to meet somebody like you?
Why did you have to hurt somebody like me?
How could you do somebody like that?
Hope you know that I'm never comin' back
Why did I have to meet somebody like you?
Why did you have to hurt somebody like me?
How could you do somebody like that?
Hope you know that I'm never comin' back
Depending on you is done, giving to you is done
No more eating, no sleeping, no living, it's all just more giving to you and I'm done
Depending on you is done, giving to you is done
No more reaching, no sleeping, no living, it's all just more giving to you and I'm done
The hiding from you is done, the lying from you is done
No more eating, no more sleeping, no living, it's all just more giving to you and I'm done
Why did I have to meet somebody like you?
Why did you have to hurt somebody like me?
How could you do somebody like that?
I hope you know that I'm never coming back
Why did I have to meet somebody like you?
Why did you have to hurt somebody like me?
How could you do somebody like that?
I hope you know that I'm never coming back
Why? Why? Why?
Finger Eleven - "Panic Attack"
Thought I could fake this thing alright
Thought it could somehow get me by
Watching the doctors as they slide
Needles into my eye
Thought I could finally get around
Laughable symptoms keep me down
Faces I see all keep me blind
And now they’re redemption’s mine
Now that I can’t exchange actions for words
Now that I found these inside fears the worst
Now that I know there’s no place left to hide
Can I become all I thought I might
As the leaders who follow the path of whoever was standing round them
Call to say what I’m missing and into a detail they always go
Don’t believe them but offer condolences under the circumstances
All too often I’m missing the spirit to fit in so call me out
Thought I could soundly sleep tonight
Positive clear and breathing right
Panic attacks, panic attacks me now
Seems like a fair redemption
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This popped up on my playlist and I thought "another one for the thread":
The Feeling - "Strange"
Don't you dig this life
They call the meek
You whose feet are on the ground
And if you get too high
What goes around comes around
And brings you down
Cause people gonna see you
How they wanna see you
People gonna rate you
People gonna hate you
People gonna shove you
People gonna love you
People gonna do whatever
Makes them feel they own you better
Cause everyone knows we're strange
(Ahh)
So why do you feel ashamed
(Ohh) Baby
Everyone knows we're different
(Ahh)
So why do you feel ashamed
We love you all the same
That's why
Cause if you feel it
And if you mean it
Don't apologize
And you'll be just fine
Cause all they ever need is what you'll give them
Is what you're given
They only put you down if you give them permission
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