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I recently discovered a band called Loud (formerly, Loud and Clear) and one of their songs, Disc-connected, really hit home with me. Alot of the lyrics in this particular song, really remind me of me and explain me.

I have no idea what the song is really about, I was never good at understanding things like the real meaning behind a song, so it's probably not about AS in the slightest, but, some of the lyrics in it really match well with how I feel. Especially the second verse and the disc-connected line. I've always felt disconnected from everyone else; disconnected from the "norm".

The lyrics that I feel match me are bolded.

Rick was a shy kid, as lonely as could be,
but there's another side of him that no one else could see
In worlds of fantasy, his disc begins to spin; he's master of a million games
Plays every one of them to win.

He's disc-connected;
We're disc-connected;
Anything you dream of is injected;
You're disc-connected;
We're disc-connected
Reality is virtually rejected;

John sees things differently,
and no one understands;
He looks and talks and acts just like an ordinary man;
He finds the others like him and not just in his head;
He logs on and soon he's gone;
He's trapped himself inside the web [This particular verse sounds so familiar to me. Seeing things differently. No one understanding. Looking and acting like an ordinary woman, but not being. I spend most of my day on the internet, because here, especially Wrongplanet.net, I find others who're like me, when I thought I was an alien in the world, because I was so different from ordinary people (NTs)].

A lot of times, the world just brings me down
Put the CD on, to the music I'm addicted;
I hear the real world melt away.

"We are Siamese, if you please!"

If AS people can be compared to cats (independent, doing our own thing, not conforming to the prevailing trends), then the Siamese is the epitome of felinity!

The Clash - Lost in the Supermarket http://www.radioblogclub.com/open/67654 ... upermarket

CHORUS:
I'm all lost in the supermarket
I can no longer shop happily
I came in here for that special offer
a guaranteed personality.

I wasn't born so much as I fell out
nobody seemed to notice me
we had a hedge back home in the suburbs
over which I never could see.

I heard the people who lived on the ceiling
scream and fight most scarily
hearing that noise was my first ever feeling
that's how it's been all around me.

CHORUS

I'm all tuned in, I see all the programmes
I save coupons from packets of tea
I've got my giant hit discoteque album
I empty a bottle and I feel a bit free.

The kids in the halls and the pipes in the walls
make me noises for company
long distance callers make long distance calls
and the silence makes me lonely.

CHORUS

And it's not here.
It disappeared.

I'm all lost.

CHORUS

Some parts fit, but some dont.
And the song allways makes me a bit confused.

I second "Mad World," but only Gary Jules' version. His haunting, simple melody fits perfectly with the lyrics:

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow

And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world mad world

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me

And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world ... world
Enlarge your world
Mad world

Radiohead: Creep

But Veresae's song was especially for us - thx!

"Alive and Kicking" by Nonpoint has to be the BEST representation of a relationship between an AS man and an NT woman. Please read the words and tell me the writer isn't an Aspie.

"I’m getting over and pushing past all the BS
and getting right to the root of what the problem really is.
All the reasons for the misunderstandings
and the emergency landings on a plane headed for home.
It’s where the heart was living till
it was without feeling and started revealing itself to everyone else.
By just packing up and moving out. Saying it could do without
a barely able, unstable, running off at the mouth.

So I’m tearing this and everything else between me and what I want to do to pieces.
I’m tearing you and everything else between me and you a memory.
I’m stronger now, even after everything that you did.
I’m still alive and kicking.
I’m better now. I’m awake now.
I can see everything in front of me, now.

Now if you would’ve waited one second
you wouldn’t feel so second.
The second I put you first
it made the situation worse.
Cuz you want to take advantage and control
of the things that I manage to keep under control.
Like, my happiness, my family, and all of my music.
You had it all. You chose to abuse it.

So I’m tearing this and everything else between me and what I want to do to pieces.
I’m tearing you and everything else between me and you a memory.
I’m stronger now, even after everything that you did.
I’m still alive and kicking.
I’m better now. I’m awake now.
I can see everything in front of me, now.

What’s wrong with me?
You want to know what’s wrong with me?
I could ask you the exact same thing.

What’s wrong with me?
You want to know what’s wrong with me?
I could ask you the exact same thing.

I have my opinion and you have yours.
You don’t have to like mine, cuz I don’t like yours.

What’s wrong with you?
I want to know what’s wrong with you
and why this doesn’t make sense to you?

So I’m tearing this and everything else between me and what I want to do to pieces.
I’m tearing you and everything else between me and you a memory.
I’m stronger now, even after everything that you did.
I’m still alive and kicking.
I’m better now. I’m awake now.
I can see everything in front of me, now.

Blue Man Group - Sing Along

If i sing a song,
will you sing along,
If i sing a song,
will you sing along,
If i sing a song,
will you sing along,
or should I just keep singing right here by myself?

Ba baba dada baba....

If i tell you I'm strong,
will you play along,
If i tell you I'm strong,
will you play along,
If i tell you I'm strong,
will you play along,
Or would you see I'm as insecure as everybody else

It's like..

Ba Ba Baba Daba ba....

If I follow along,
does it mean I belong,
If I follow along,
does it mean I belong,
If I follow along,
does it mean I belong,
or will I keep on feeling different from everybody else?

It's life...

Ba Bada Ba Ba Dababa.. Oh Oh Oh

If I sing a song, will you sing along,
If I sing a song, will you sing that song,
or should I just keep singing right here by myself

If I sing a song, will you sing along,
If I sing a song, should i just keep singing right here by,
should I just keep singing by myself

If I sing a song, would you sing along,
Would you, Could you Sing along
Should I just keep singing right here by, by myself

Should I, Should I

Sing a song, (baba) Sing along, (baba)
Would you still sing along, (baba)
Please, or should I just keep right here singing by myself

If I still sing a song (baba), would you sing along,
Sing with me, or just Take it home,
or I'll just keep singing right here by myself

"Nowhere Kids" by Smile Empty Soul

in the land of dirt and plaster
lies an army of a thousand nowhere kids
losing ground and falling faster
into a life that no one should have to live

we are the people that you hate
we are the bastards that you created (the f*****g bastards that you created)
a generation with no place
a generation of all your sons and daughters

behind the fake family image
behind the smile of a thousand moms and dads
inside the cage that we've been given
i see an image of the future that we don't have

[chorus]

and what did you expect ... a perfect child
raised by tv sets ... abandoned every mile
we never get respect ... never a fair trial
no one gives a s**t ... as long as we smile



or "Lying From You" by Linkin Park

When I pretend everything is what I want it to be
I look exactly like what you always wanted to see
When I pretend, I can't forget about the criminal I am
Stealing second after second just cause I know I can but
I can't pretend this is the way it'll stay I'm just
(Lying to bend the truth)
I can't pretend I'm who you want me to be, so I'm

[Chorus]
(Lying my way from you)
No no turning back now
(I wanna be pushed aside so let me go)
No no turning back now
(Let me take back my life I'd rather be all alone)
No turning back now
(Anywhere on my own cuz I can see)
No no turning back now
(The very worst part of you is me)

I remember what they taught to me
Remember condescending talk for who I ought to be
Remember listening to all of that and this again
So I pretended up a person who was fittin' in
And now you think this person really is me and I'm
(Trying to bend the truth)
Cuz the more I push the more I'm pulling away cuz I'm

[Chorus]
(Lying my way from you)
No no turning back now
(I wanna be pushed aside so let me go)
No no turning back now
(Let me take back my life I'd rather be all alone)
No turning back now
(Anywhere on my own cuz I can see)
No no turning back now
(The very worst part of you)
(The very worst part of you is ME)

This isn't what I wanted to be, I never thought that what I said would
have you running from me
Like This
This isn't what I wanted to be, I never thought that what I said would
have you running from me
Like This
This isn't what I wanted to be, I never thought that what I said would
have you running from me
Like This
This isn't what I wanted to be, I never thought that what I said would
have you running from me
Like This

[Chorus]
(You)
No turning back now
(I wanna be pushed aside so let me go)
No no turning back now
(Let me take back my life I'd rather be all alone)
No turning back now
(Anywhere on my own cuz I can see)
No no turning back now
(The very worst part of you)
(The very worst part of you is me)

Both depressing songs but :shrugs: we are a depressing race.

_________________
"we never get respect ... never a fair trial
[swearing removed by lau] ... as long as we smile"
Im tired of smiling.

Vote for me in 2020

"Unit 3000/21 is warning - makes a humming sound
When its circuits duplicate emotions - and a sense of coldness detatches
As it tries to comfort your saddness

One more robot learns to be (refrain)
something more than a machine
When it tries the way it does - make it seem
Like it can love
'Cause its hard to say what's real - when you know the way you feel
is it wrong to think its love
When it tries the way it does

Feeling a synthetic kind of love
Dreaming a sympathetic sort of wish
As the lights blink faster and brighter

refrain


One More Robot/Sympathy 3000/21
The Flaming Lips
CD: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Sorry to resurrect such an old thread but I couldn't find a newer one and I didn't want to start a new one.

This is an old and rather obscure Paul Simon song called A Most Peculiar Man. Paul wrote this song in response to a one line obituary he read in the newspaper and thought that was a rather bad way to go out, just one line. It seems to me that the man described in the song certainly could have been an aspie.

There's a really old and not very good video on Youtube of Simon & Garfunkel performing the song live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzJcqPS3VQ0

A Most Peculiar Man

He was a most peculiar man.
That's what Mrs. Rearden said, and she should know,
She lived upstairs from him.
She said he was a most peculiar man.

He was a most peculiar man.
He lived all alone, within a house, within a room,
Within himself,
A most peculiar man.

He had no friends, he seldom spoke.
And no one in turn ever spoke to him
'cause he wasn't friendly and he didn't care,
And he wasn't like them, oh no,
He was a most peculiar man.

He died last Saturday.
He turned on the gas and he went to sleep,
With the windows closed so he'd never wake up to his his silent world and his tiny room ,
And Mrs. Rearden said he has a brother somewhere,
Who should be notified soon.
And all the people said "What a shame that he's dead,"
But wasn't he a most peculiar man.

Video
Badlands by Metal Church

[K. Vanderhoof / M. Howe]

I ride alone, the wasteland that I cross
Will take another life, we'll take another loss
I feel a dry wind, dust is in my eyes
The artic cold at night, the earth, it tells me lies

God in heaven, my only friend
Will I live to see my journey's end?
As the world awakens me so hard, my values have been changed
I make a promise to myself: Never again
A dusty godforsaken path, endless to my dismay
I know these are the badlands, somehow I'll find my way

No more paradise, no more soothing rain
All the sacrifice, the pain is all the same
Still I'm pushing onward, alone I can't deny
My presence fills the desert, my spirit never dies

Will these lonely nights ever end?
Will I live to see my journey's end?
As the world awakens me so hard, my values have been changed
I make a promise to myself: Never again
A dusty godforsaken path, endless to my dismay
I know these are the badlands, somehow I'll find my way

The vultures that circle, cloud the empty sky,
Patiently waiting, they wait for me to die
Tortured and beaten, blistered by the sun
Forceful and heartless, have the badlands won?

Still I'm pushing onward, alone I can't deny
My presence fills the desert, my spirit never dies
As the world awakens me so hard, my values have been changed
I make a promise to myself: Never again
A dusty godforsaken path, endless to my dismay
I know these are the badlands, somehow I'll find my way

Upside Down Frown by They Might Be Giants (the song that instantly made me into a TMBG fan):

You say you've got some very excellent news
You say I'm going to die when you tell me
And in my way, I will
But though your words will kill
I know you'll think that I don't seem to care

It's just because my frown is upside down
It's upside down, my frown
Is upside down

I'm happy at your happiness as well
Your anger makes me mad, though you can't tell
Believe me when I say
I'm with you in my private way
And though you think I'm trying to blow you off

It's only that my frown is upside down
It's upside down, my frown
Is upside down
My frown's upside down

You'd probably like to give me a smack
But there's something about my face
That always keeps you coming back

When I'm with you, the landscape goes all weird
Black is white, and the rainbow has a beard
Are your eyes playing tricks
Or should you get your glasses fixed?
Well, I don't think your eyesight is to blame

The problem is my frown's upside down
It's upside down, my frown
Is upside down
My frown's upside down

Man, there are some really good fitting songs here. And even though I wouldn't vote "Creep" by Radiohead as #1, it still reminds me of myself...sometimes.

When you were here before,
Couldn't look you in the eye
You're just like an angel,
Your skin makes me cry

You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
I wish I was special
You're so f***ing special

But I'm a creep,
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doin' here?
I don't belong here

I don't care if it hurts,
I wanna have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul

I want you to notice
when I'm not around
You're so f***ing special
I wish I was special

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doin' here?
I don't belong here, ohhhh, ohhhh

She's running out the door
She's running out
She run run run run...
run...

Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you want
You're so f***ing special
I wish I was special

But I'm a creep,
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doin' here?
I don't belong here

I don't belong here...

Okay, as someone who works with ASD kids, I choose "Unbound" by Suzanne Vega for them.

Unbound

I knew a plant
Whose roots were bound
And returned
Into the ground

Every day
I watched it grow
Every day
It struggled so

Roots were bound roots were bound
Roots were bound into the ground
Watched it grow watched it grow
Watched it as it struggled so

I dug it up
I cut the twine
And so like this
I made it mine

I watched it drink
And watched it feed
And grow beyond
It's simple need

Cut the twine cut the twine
Cut the twine and made it mine
Watched it feed watched it feed
Watched it feed the simple need

Unbound roots unbound
Unbound into the ground
Unbound roots unbound
Unbound into the ground

I was once
Bound at the root
Confined with twine
Both mind and foot

I cut it loose
And now am free
As anything
Alive can be

At the root bound at the root
Confined both mind and foot
Am free now am free
As anything alive can be

Unbound roots unbound
Unbound into the ground
Unbound roots unbound
Unbound into the ground

For me, myself, because I have a vested interest in these lyrics....I pick Machines of Loving Grace "Butterfly Wings"

You can't place faith in material things
material things will fail you
a hurricane triggered by a butterfly's wings
your conspirators betray you

Don't place faith in human beings
human beings are unreliable things
don't place faith in human beings
human beings or butterfly's wings

You can't place faith in a new regime
that fascist faith will kill you
a hurricane triggered by a butterfly's wings
your conspirators betray you

don't place faith in human beings
human beings are unreliable things
don't place faith in human beings
human beings or butterfly wings

there's something burning
deep inside I know
there's something
inside this hole......

Don't place faith
Don't place faith
When I decide to live in the mind
the heart dies
mother superior in the sky
the heart dies
the heart dies

Don't place faith in human beings
human beings are unreliable things
don't place faith in human beings
human beings or butterfly wings