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"Harder To Breathe" by Maroon 5 (I think I posted this already but wasn't sure)

The Kills - U.R.A Fever

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3fZP7QC4PE[/youtube]

Walk you to the counter
What you got to offer?
Pick you out a soda
Look at you forever
Walk you to the water
Eyes like a casino
You ain't born typical

Find a piece of silver
Pretty as a diagram
Go down to the Rio
Put it in my left hand
Put it in a fruit machine
Everyone's a winner
Laughing like a seagull

You are a fever, you are a fever
You ain't born typical
You are a fever, you are a fever
You ain't born typical

Living in a suitcase
Meet a clown and fall in love
Been dying to have you over
Clown around and break up
Take you to a jukebox
That's the situation
Pick you out a number
That's our arrangement

Dancing on the legs of a new born pony
Left right left right, keep it up son
Go ahead and have her, go ahead and leave her
You only ever had her when you were a fever

I am a fever, I am a fever
I ain't born typical
I am a fever, I am a fever
I ain't born typical
We are a fever, we are a fever
We ain't born typical
We are a fever, we are a fever
We ain't born typical

Tori Amos - Strange Little Girl
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq3j60f5Z1s[/youtube]

Greenday - I walk alone
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvbYKDImYNE[/youtube]

"Be Human" -Yoko Kano [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQM4T7BLqKI&feature=related[/youtube]

There was a song by a Canadian folk singer named James Gordon. For the life of me I can't rememeber the name of the song, but the chorus is:

"There's a deep dark contenent,
between what I said and what I meant,
it's as big as an elephant,
the space between us when I try to talk to you,
when I try to talk to you."

"Stolen Child" -Loreena McKennitt [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb4eib9f45E[/youtube]

This song was writen about the changling legend.

Unwell -Matchbox 20

"Fake it" -Seether [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j2DHUw8SZg[/youtube]

"Be Good Johnny" by Men At Work
"Who Can It Be Now" by Men at Work

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfZUxPF7AMI[/youtube]

Chasing Cars lyrics

We'll do it all
Everything
On our own

We don't need
Anything
Or anyone

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel

Those three words
I said too much
They're not enough

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life

Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads

I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life

All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see

I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Bonnie Raitt
Nobody's Girl

She don't need anybody to tell her she's pretty
She's heard it every single day of her life
He's got to wonder what she sees in him when theres so many others
Standing in line
She gives herself to him, but he's still on the outside.
She's alone in this world
She's nobody's girl
She's nobody's girl
She shows up at his doorstep in the middle of the night
Then she disappears for weeks at a time
Just enough to keep him wanting more
But never is he satisfied
And he's left to pick up the pieces
Wondering what does he do this for
She's off in her own little world
She's nobody's girl
She's nobody's girl
He said, Before I met her, I didn't love nothing.
I could take it or leave it,
That was okay, but, she brings out a want in me, of things I didn't even
Know that I need.
She does anything she wants, anytime she wants to.
With anyone, you know, she wants it all.
Still she gets all upset over the least little thing
When you hurt her, it makes you feel so small.
And she's a walking contradiction, but I ache for her inside.
She's fragile like a string of pearls,
She's nobody's girl.
She's nobody's girl.
She's nobody's girl.

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The girl's symptoms don't seem to be typical of a person with Asperger's, but I identify with the feeling of isolation and emotional disconnect.

"Silent All These Years" by Tori Amos

Excuse me but can I be you for a while
My dog won't bite if you sit real still
I got the anti-Christ in the kitchen yellin' at me again
Yeah I can hear that
Been saved again by the garbage truck
I got something to say you know
But nothing comes
Yes I know what you think of me
You never shut-up
Yeah I can hear that

But what if I'm a mermaid
In these jeans of his
With her name still on it
Hey but I don't care
Cause sometimes
I said sometimes
I hear my voice
And it's been here
Silent All These Years

So you found a girl
Who thinks really deep thougts
What's so amazing about really deep thoughts
Boy you best praya that I bleed real soon
How's that thought for you
My scream got lost in a paper cup
You think there's a heaven
Where some screams have gone
I got 25 bucks and a cracker
Do you think it's enough
To get us there

Years go by
Will I still be waiting
For somebody else to understand
Years go by
If I'm stripped of my beauty
And the orange clouds
Raining in head
Years go by
Will I choke on my tears
Till finally there is nothing left
One more casualty
You know we're too easy Easy Easy

Well I love the way we communicate
Your eyes focus on my funny lip shape
Let's hear what you think of me now
But baby don't look up
The sky is falling
Your mother shows up in a nasty dress
It's your turn now to stand where I stand
Everybody lookin' at you here
Take hold of my hand
Yeah I can hear them

And it's been here
Silent All These Years
I've been here
Silent All These Years

Speaking of Tori Amos, this one always reminded me (in a very generic way that could apply to non-autism-related situations) of autistic people who pass for non-autistic, especially after being forced to as part of behavioral therapy or something.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVoBdtHLpns[/youtube]

Lyrics here.

Believe it or not the Lead Singer of Stone Sour, Corey Taylor and the lead guitarist Jim Root are also the lead singer and lead guitarist for Slipknot
Heres one of my faves by them
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xps7AM8HbjE[/youtube]

Ummm *still thinking*

I kinda associate '100 years' by five for fighting to be an autism song because autistics seem to age a lot slower then our peers.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmoE8_U-JTw[/youtube]

I thought about Hollow Man (great song ) and The Wrong Child too.
But I don't understand why Bad Day should be considered a song about autism

A Public service announcement followed me home the other day
I paid it nevermind. Go away.
s**ts so thick you could stir it with a stick- free Teflon whitewashed presidency
We're sick of being jerked around
Wear that on your sleeve

Broadcast me a joyful noise unto the times, lord,
Count your blessings.
We're sick of being jerked around
We all fall down.

Have you ever seen the televised St. vitus subcommittee prize
Investigation dance? Those-ants-in- pants glances.
Well, look behind the eyes
It's a hallowed, hollow anesthesized
"save my own ass, screw these guys"
smoke and mirror lock down
Broadcast me a joyful noise unto the times, lord,
Count your blessings.
the papers wouldn't lie!
I sigh. Not one more

Its been a bad day.
Please dont take a picture
Its been a bad day.
Please

We're dug in the deep the price is steep.
The auctioneer is such a creep.
The lights went out, the oil ran dry
We blamed it on the other guy
Sure, all men are created equal.
Heres the church, heres the steeple
Please stay tuned--we cut to sequel
ashes, ashes, we all fall down.

Broadcast me a joyful noise unto the times, lord, Count your blessings.
Ebrace the lowest fear/Ignore the lower fears
Ugh, this means war.

Its been a bad day.
Br.

Broadcast me a joyful noise unto the times, lord,
Count your blessings.
We're sick of being jerked around
We all fall down.

Its been a bad day...
Pleaase...

I do not believe this song is about autistic people exactly, but it mentions autism and other people often say it is, possibly just because of the foot-notes that appear in the booklet of lyrics that accompanied the record. I've added them here as they are there, but the 'Note' bit is printed sideways up the inside edge of the page.

There is no reason to actually look at this video, the picture doesn't change.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ2tYACkF5I[/youtube]

Tea & Thorazine. (1)

Note: This song contains three characters and one crackpot idea.

I can tell by the way you take your infusion
you've spent some time in a mental institution
oh what a dream life would be if only...
they let you keep your etchasketch (2)

you laugh like a banshee gesticulate your delirium
they treat you like a corpse keep you full of candy
lithium
what a dream life would seem if if you could see
the world from inside an etchasketch

I can tell by the way you reach your conclusions
you're the director of a mental institution
oh what a dream life would be if only...
it hadn't been for Doctor B. (3)

animate yourself an alternate reality
consummate a self-pleasing artificiality
you can have yourself to tea

I can tell by the way you take your infusion
you've spent some time in a mental institution
oh what a dream life would be if only...
they let you keep your etchasketch

(1) I observed a man hunched over a cup of Mountain Dew and a chimichanga at a public cafeteria in Arkansas. "I bet he's been in a mental institution," I thought. As it happened, I was correct.
(2) My brother, who is autistic, had his art supplies taken away from him by heath care workers, ostensibly as a means of discipline.
(3) Dr. B. (Bruno Bettleheim) godfather of Autism and its diagnosis, concluded that Autism is instilled by the mother. He was, in my opinion, a bad man.

Idea: Being autistic is like being trapped inside an etchasketch yet having control of the dials.

Solitaire is a very lovely classic ballad which IMHO pretty much sums up autism. Both in the actual obsession for the game of "solitaire" and as a metorphor the an autistic life. In fact the majority of aspies and auties I have met personally who are really passionate about solitaire or as some of them call it the game of "patience"

I do not play solitaire myself but my life is a kind of metaphorical solitaire.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L63W_4fbJZ0&feature=related[/youtube]

There was a man, a lonely man
who lost his love through his indifference
a heart that cared that went unshared
until it died within his silence

CHORUS:
And solitaire's the only game in town
every road that takes him takes him down
while life goes on around him everywhere
he's playing solitaire

And keeping to himself begins to deal
still the king of hearts is well concealed
another losing game comes to an end
and he deals them out again

A little hope goes up in smoke
just how it goes, goes without saying
There was a man, a lonely man
who would command the hand he's playing

And solitaire's the only game in town
and every road that takes him takes him down
while life goes on around him everywhere
he's playing solitaire

And keeping to himself begins to deal
still the king of hearts is well concealed
another losing game comes to an end
and he deals them out again

And solitaire's the only game in town
and every road that takes him takes him down
while life goes on around him everywhere
he's playing solitaire

Playing solitaire

Post one? I wrote one.

www.myspace.com/gazhughessolo

'Things You Already Know' is about my Asperger's.