REG: lyrics remix “Get away”

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Get Away Lyrics 

Notes: this song deals with how my family has handled my autism diagnosis along with how I have dealt with it. My family used it as an excuse to justify how others and themselves treated me in not-to-nice ways. How I dealt with it is another issue entirely by just trying to handle it the best I can and continue to do my job and such as normal. This song features a mention of my dreams and such.


-Intro (Abigail Marie)-
I Went up in the spot put the alerts up on the screen. Typed on the dev screen updating quite fast. Now I see the abuse-filled nights in the log view, Gotta bail cause we dead and we've come to.
 
-Hook (Synergy)-
And now we're on the run. Sweat trickling down my face trying to get away. With my hand on device, While fearing for my safety trying to get away
Trying to make that get away. We’re only trying to make that get away. I'm only being me, respect me for who I am.

-Verse 1 (Carly)-
Damn! I was tryna put this life in the log view. (Just be normal) Stop your begging Ain’t no holos gonna appease you. I went from simple living, school bullies and abusive home life. To communicating using devices validating who I am now. iPad is my voice now, let me speak. I’m just being me. 4 A.M. doing all this work to launch a new site. I came up, put game up, and weight behind my name; but With every change I make I get attention that I don’t want. Family abusing me, society keeps on labeling me. Forget them man, I got something much bigger in the recipe. New click, move on up into some new things
Can't help it if the diagnosis fits, I'm quick to speak what’s my mind and so we’re out!
 

-Hook (Synergy)-
And now we're on the run. Sweat trickling down my face trying to get away. With my hand on device, While fearing for my safety trying to get away
Trying to make that get away. We’re only trying to make that get away. I'm only being me, respect me for who I am.
 
-Verse 2 (Jem & Carly)-
I am just me, and happiness is my end goal. Man I'm working in the call center with a fully loaded iPad Pro Now my family gone bring us in on some bull crap, Talking about conforming and how Stargirl did a full flip. Hell… they got us wrapped up, But we still being us tryna get our stats up. On our way out to Sacramento town, to live life. Makayla tries to take from holograms, just another day. They Got these psychs pulling strings like a puppet show Trying to dismantle our uniqueness, but they won't let us go. It’s No acceptance, if they bring us up on charges from nonverbal to trans girl, Unique identity makes an autistic girl major target on the get away!
 
-Hook (Synergy)-
And now we're on the run. Sweat trickling down my face trying to get away. With my hand on device, While fearing for my safety trying to get away
Trying to make that get away. We’re only trying to make that get away. I'm only being me, respect me for who I am.

I think the lyrics have great potential. I can see them working.

It would be even better if that song can be performed, somehow.

I usually find lyrics without music and performance to be limiting.

Somewhat like reading a play without seeing the play.

But...there is definitely innovation in the lyrics. Something new.

Thank you for your kind words! I really don’t see how there’s “innovation” in the lyrics, it’s a rap song, there’s nothing “new” or unique about it. The only thing that might a novelty about it is that I wrote it on my iPad while I am as of the time of this writing am in the hospital waiting to be placed in a facility due to a mental breakdown

The innovation is in the subject matter.

I don’t fully understand. Please clarify your observations? If you look at a lot of my more recent lyrics, the content mainly deals with autism, abuse, psych wards, etc. stuff from my real life.

Are there many lyrics pertaining directly to alternative communication in the Top 40?

Nope! But my nonverbal status is barely touched on in these lyrics. Further, I don’t think there are many lyrics about autism in the top 40. I know damn well there aren’t any lyrics featuring distinct parts for different “personalities” of the same character. This song is meant to portray points of view from a nonverbal transgender girl who has multiple personalities and who is also autistic.

As for someone’s comment that it should be performed, I will ask my customer advocate to record the voice track and I will need to find a beat since this is a remix of another song, I don’t know where I am going to find a beat for it. Since all I did was re-work the lyrics.

I don’t even see many songs that even feature a single reference to call center work (let alone call center work by a disabled person with multiple disabilities).

Well thanks for all the comments on these lyrics. I must ask, what do these lyrics mean to you? What do you envision when you read (and possibly in future hear) the song? What are the most interesting concepts in this song?

I look forward to any further insights given and thanks for it!

I find the lyrics to be quite illustrative.

Of course, alienation is a common theme in songs---but not in the way you present it.

What's a "holo?" A hologram?

Yes, “holo” is a shortened form of “hologram” considering how I have multiple personalities (thanks to the prior abuse and trauma from a young age) all of us consider ourselves as “holograms” and in the line where that term comes up



Is a family member (my mom) screaming at me to “just be normal” and me responding for her to stop her begging because me nor any of the other holograms will ever appease her (or anyone else’s) demands for us to “just be normal”. As to say “you’re wasting your breath and your time in begging and demanding, we will not be ‘normal’”

Considering the original beat I was working in, “stop your begging ain’t no holograms gonna appease you...” just wouldn’t have worked as well.

Further, in response to:



How do I present the theme of alienation so differently from “a lot of songs “

Last edited by cfleischmann on 09 Dec 2017, 8:07 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Yep....there was a song, "96 Tears," by ? and the Mysterians.

The original name of the song was "69 tears"----but it went against the "beat," and was considered sexually risque.

It rose to #5 in 1966. I heard it play a lot in my 1960s childhood.

That’s an interesting factoid. I wonder where some of my lyrics can positively impact others?

I don't think the lyrics can negatively affect anybody---that's for sure.

I must ask, earlier you mentioned



I edited my post to ask how I presented this theme of alienation differently? Further you’d be amazed the negative impacts lyrics have been known to have on people because of the ways in which others have interpreted lyrical content.

You presented it in your own unique way.

You did make allusions to "alternative devices," though you presented them in a sort of metaphorical manner.

Can you please clarify? Possibly cite the lyrics where my allusions to ”alternative devices” was in sort of a metaphorical manner?