What song best describes you as an Aspie?

Post Reply New Topic

Open Secrets (Rush)

It went right by me-
At the time it went over my head
I was looking out the window
I should have looked at your face instead

It went right by me-
Just another wall
There should have been a moment
When we let our barriers fall
I never meant what you're thinking-
That is not what I meant at all...

Well I guess we all have these feelings
We can't leave unreconciled
Some of them burned on our ceilings
Some of them learned as a child
The things that we're concealing
Will never let us grow
Time will do its healing
You've got to let it go

Closed for my protection-
Open to your scorn
Between these two directions
My heart is sometimes torn

I lie awake with my secrets
spinning around my head
something that somehow escaped me-
Something you shouldn't have said
I was looking out the window
I should have looked at your face instead...

I find no absolution
In my rational point of view
Maybe some things are instinctive
But there's one thing you could do
You could try to understand me-
I could try to understand you...

i have 2:
wierd video on this one so just listen to the music & lyrics
pink runaway:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ltQls0HweM[/youtube]

snow patrol chasing cars absolutley beautiful
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfZUxPF7AMI[/youtube]

most - if not all - of Syd Barrett's discography.

Ran across this super-old thread, but found it really interesting.

At the moment, for me, I'd say it's "Kryptonite" by Three Doors Down. Pretty good summary of what happens when damaged abusers get their hooks in a somewhat naive, probable-Aspie "fixer" type like me.


"I took a walk around the world
To ease my troubled mind
I left my body laying somewhere
In the sands of time
But I watched the world float
To the dark side of the moon

I feel there is nothing I can do, yeah

I watched the world float
To the dark side of the moon
After all I knew it had to be
Something to do with you
I really don’t mind what happens now and then
As long as you’ll be my friend at the end

If I go crazy then will you still
Call me Superman?
If I’m alive and well, will you be
There a-holding my hand?
I’ll keep you by my side
With my superhuman might
Kryptonite

You called me strong, you called me weak,
But still your secrets I will keep
You took for granted all the times
I never let you down
You stumbled in and bumped your head,
If not for me then you'd be dead
I picked you up and put you back
On solid ground

If I go crazy then will you still
Call me Superman?
If I’m alive and well,
Will you be there a-holding my hand?
I’ll keep you by my side
With my superhuman might
Kryptonite

If I go crazy then will you still
Call me Superman?
If I’m alive and well, will you be there
Holding my hand?
I’ll keep you by my side
With my superhuman might
Kryptonite

If I go crazy then will you still
Call me Superman?
If I'm alive and well,
Will you be there a-holding my hand?
I'll keep you by my side
With my superhuman might
Kryptonite"


(BTW, the answers to the song's questions are "No" and "No." lol)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kGp3JvtU5I[/youtube]

A skeleton in a suit and tie
Tells us what we ought to buy
A bag of coke and a nuclear heart
Support your conscience that's a start

If you win the game, some have to lose
The fun part is that you can't choose
You're born into your social class
You're stuck there and it's hard to pass


Their social norms and social rules
We're social scum, they're social tools
They tell us all their social lies
Ignoring all our social cries
We lose the game before we start
They watch us dance, we fall apart
Let's be ourselves and never be social
We'll play their games but never be social


Ken and Barb in Greek fatigues
Tell us what we ought to be
The care to drive what to think
Ignorant bliss, no need to think


As Barb cakes fetus on her face
Ken sucks blood at his workplace
They take from you, they take from me
Society's anomalies

This thread should be revived, it's a nice idea. Here's my pick, "Map of the World" by Monsters of Folk:

There's a map of the world on the wall in your room
Green pins where you want to go
White pins where you've been, there isn't even ten
and your already feeling old

Pretty faces stare back from a magazine stack
That you read when you're feeling bored
Look through a telescope lens it doesn't make sense
You think you've been there before

Some far off feeling, some up close kind of ache
A wide screen reason to look the other way

There's a place by the lake that you go when its late
In the summer when the crowds are gone
You sit all alone with your thoughts getting stoned
Just waiting for some peace to come

Like the thing that you tried that you thought that you liked
For a minute then it all felt wrong
So you change it again all your clothes, all your friends
It's the same as it ever was

That far off feeling, that up close kind of ache
Some wide screen reason to look the other way

It's the road that you paved over indian graves
and you wonder why your dreams are crazed
So you cling to wife, your kids, your life
There's nothing that your gonna save

Put the razor to your face, hot water for a shave
Kill the shadow of yesterday
Clean shirt, clean pants, clean slate, second chance
You're going by another name

Some far off feeling, an up close kind of ache
That instant karma always comes to late

I'd nominate When I'm Gone by 3 Doors Down.

There's another world inside of me
That you may never see
There're secrets in this life
That I can't hide
Somewhere in this darkness
There's a light that I can't find
Maybe it's too far away...
Or maybe I'm just blind...

Or maybe I'm just blind...

[Chorus]
So hold me when I'm here
Right me when I'm wrong
Hold me when I'm scared
And love me when I'm gone
Everything I am
And everything in me
Wants to be the one
You wanted me to be
I'll never let you down
Even if I could
I'd give up everything
If only for your good
So hold me when I'm here
Right me when I'm wrong
You can hold me when I'm scared
You won't always be there
So love me when I'm gone

Love me when I'm gone...

When your education X-Ray
Cannot see under my skin
I won't tell you a damn thing
That I could not tell my friends
Roaming through this darkness
I'm alive but I'm alone
Part of me is fighting this
But part of me is gone

[Chorus]

Or maybe I'm just blind...

[Chorus]

Love me when I'm gone...

Love me when I'm gone
When I'm Gone
When I'm Gone
When I'm Gone

Hand In My Pocket by Alanis Morsette

I'm broke but I'm happy
I'm poor but I'm kind
I'm short but I'm healthy, yeah
I'm high but I'm grounded
I'm sane but I'm overwhelmed
I'm lost but I'm hopeful baby

And what it all comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be fine fine fine
I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is giving a high five

I feel drunk but I'm sober
I'm young and I'm underpaid
I'm tired but I'm working, yeah
I care but I'm restless
I'm here but I'm really gone
I'm wrong and I'm sorry baby

What it all comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be quite alright
I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is flicking a cigarette

[Harmonica solo]

And what it all comes down to
Is that I haven't got it all figured out just yet
I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is giving the peace sign

I'm free but I'm focused
I'm green but I'm wise
I'm hard but I'm friendly baby
I'm sad but I'm laughing
I'm brave but I'm chickenshit
I'm sick but I'm pretty baby

And what it all boils down to
Is that no one's really got it figured out just yet
I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is playing the piano
And what it all comes down to my friends
Is that everything's just fine fine fine
I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is hailing a taxi cab

[Harmonica solo]

This song has always rung true with me since I first heard it

Daniel Johnston
Story of an Artist

listen up and i'll tell a story
about an artist growing old
some would try for fame and glory
others aren't so bold

everyone in friends and family
sayin "hey get a job
why do you only do that only
why are you so odd?

"we dont really like what you do
we dont think anyone ever will
it's a problem that you have
and this problem's made you ill"

listen up and i'll tell a story
about an artist growing old
some would try for fame and glory
others aren't so bold

the artist walks alone
someone says behind his back
"he's got his gall to call himself that
he doesn't even know where he's at"

the artist walks among the flowers
appreciating the sun
he does this all his waking hours
but is it really so wrong

they sit in front of their tv
sayin "hey this is fun"
and they laugh at the artist
saying "he doesn't know how to have fun"

the best things in life are truly free
singing birds and laughing bees
you got me wrong says he
the sun don't shine in your tv

listen up and i'll tell a story
about an artist growing old
some would try for fame and glory
others aren't so bold

everyone in friends and family
sayin "hey get a job
why do you only do that only
why are you so odd?

"we dont really like what you do
we dont think anyone ever will
it's a problem that you have
and this problem's made you ill"

listen up and i'll tell a story
about an artist growin old
some would try for fame and glory
others just like to watch the world

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kGp3JvtU5I[/youtube]

First, I wanna say great choices!

Songs that have already been listed that I totally agree with:

"Creep" by Radiohead
"How to Disappear Completely" by Radiohead
"Silence Is Golden" by Garbage
"Silent All These Years" by Tori Amos
"Hurt" by NIN/Johnny Cash (I agree that the cover is better)
"Never Is A Promise" by Fiona Apple

I would add:

"Subterranean Homesick Alien" by Radiohead

The breath of the morning
I keep forgetting
The smell of the warm summer air

I live in a town
Where you can't smell a thing
You watch your feet
For cracks in the pavement

Up above
Aliens hover
Making home movies
For the folks back home

Of all these weird creatures
Who lock up their spirits
Drill holes in themselves
And live for their secrets

They're all uptight
Uptight.. (x7)

I wish that they'd swoop down in a country lane
Late at night when I'm driving
Take me on board their beautiful ship
Show me the world as I'd love to see it

I'd tell all my friends
But they'd never believe
They'd think that I'd finally lost it completely

I'd show them the stars
And the meaning of life
They'd shut me away
But I'd be all right
All right..

I'm just uptight
Uptight.. (x7)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1tQFX_9ct0

"Spaceboy" by Smashing Pumpkins

Feel it
Break your bones
Mr. Jones

Taste me
As I bleed
Taste my need

And spaceboy I've missed you
Spinning round my head
And any way you choose me
You'll break instead

Watch me
Death defy
Defile my life

I don't need
I don't care
Please

I want to go home (x4)
'cause when a lover aches
That's when a lover breaks
I want to go home
I want to go home

And spaceboy they'll kill me
Before I'm dead and gone
And any way you choose me
It won't be wrong
And any way you choose me
We won't belong (x6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svRtbOYbxo8

"Mariella" by Kate Nash

I'm heavy handed,
to say the least.
My mother thinks I'll be an awful clutcher
'cause I spill things from stiring them too quickly.
I'm far too loud.
Its like, as soon as I've got an opinion,
it just has to come out.
I laugh at stupid things
just 'cause they tickle me.

And sometimes I wish,
Sometimes I wish I was like Mariella,
She got some pritt stick and glued her lips together
So she never had to speak, never had to speak, never had to speak.
People used to say shes as quiet as a mouse,
she just doesn't make a peep.

She marched to her wardrobe and threw away the colour,
because wearing black looks mysterious,
but it didn't impress her mother.
She wanted to dress her baby in patterns and flowers,
but Mariella just crossed her arms
and so she cried for hours.

Mariella. Mariella.
My pretty, baby girl
Unglue your lips from being together
and wear some pink and pearls.
You can have your friends 'round and they can stay for tea.
Won't you just try to fit in please,
do this for me.

But Mariella just crossed her arms and walked up the stairs
and she went into her bedroom, and she sat on her bed.
And she looked in the mirror and she thought to herself
If I wanna play, I can play with me.
If I wanna think, I'll think in my head.

At school, Mariella didn't have many friends,
Yeah, the girls there, they looked at her and thought she was quite strange.
Boys aren't really into girls at that age.
And the teachers, they thought Mariella was just going through a phase.
But Mariella just smiled as she skipped down the road
because she knew all the secrets in her world.
Yeah, she always got the crossword puzzle right every day
and she could do the alphabet backwards, without making any mistakes.

Mariella. Mariella.
Pretty, pretty girl.
Mariella. Mariella.
Happy in her own little world
Happy in her own little world

And she says I'm never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever, yeah,
I'm never ever ever ever ever ever ever, yeah,
I'm never ever ever ever ever ever ever
gonna unglue my lips from being together
She said I'm never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever, yeah,
I'm never ever ever ever ever ever ever, yeah,
I'm never ever ever ever ever ever ever evereverevereverevereverevereverever
gonna unglue my lips from being together

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

Lykke Li
This Trumpet In My Head

I can't get that trumpet out of my head
I can't get that trumpet out of my head
I woke up and I can't get that trumpet out of my head
And you say you can't stand me when I'm quiet,
and so I shot you in my silence

I can't get that trumpet out of my head

Are You Gonna Go My Way by Lenny Kravitz

I was born long ago
I am the chosen I'm the one
I have come to save the day
And I won't leave until I'm done
So that's why you've got to try
You got to breath and have some fun
Though I'm not paid I play this game
And I won't stop until I'm done

But what I really want to know is
Are you gonna go my way ?
And I got to got to know

I don't know why we always cry
This we must leave and get undone
We must engage and rearrange
And turn this planet back to one
So tell me why we got to die
And kill each other one by one
We've got to love and rub-a-dub
We've got to dance and be in love

But what I really want to know is
Are you gonna go my way ?
And I got to got to know

Are you gonna go my way ?
'Cause baby I got to know, yeah

I posted this before a few times but I like being redundant so I'm going list Creepy Internet Guy by Nuclear Bubble Wrap
http://www.nuclearbubblewrap.com/downlo ... netGuy.mp3


I stare at the wall in my room in the basement
The only place I have seen
I spend all day long sitting here and I hate it
It makes me just want to scream

I can’t go out and simply make friends
I never go outside
I don’t know why I’m still a virgin
I’m almost thirty five

I can’t view the world cause they say I’m unable
Because I am such a freak
I am a creep and insane and unstable
Nobody’s safe on my street

Once I got out but was deserted
I tried to flirt and screw
I don’t know how I’d be converted
I am perverted too

I look at you all having lives with no worries
While my whole life really stinks
I look at you all…
Must kill them all while they sleep

I'm not sure if this song encapsulates me as an aspie but it definatly sprung to mind!

She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby

It's poetry in motion
She turned her tender eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
Mmm - but she blinded me with science
"She blinded me with science!"
And failed me in biology

When I'm dancing close to her
"Blinding me with science - science!"
I can smell the chemicals
"Blinding me with science - science!"
"Science!"
"Science!"

Mmm - but it's poetry in motion
And when she turned her eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
Mmm - but she blinded me with science
And failed me in geometry

When she's dancing next to me
"Blinding me with science - science!"
"Science!"
I can hear machinery
"Blinding me with science - science!"
"Science!"

It's poetry in motion
And now she's making love to me
The spheres're in commotion
The elements in harmony
She blinded me with science
"She blinded me with science!"
And hit me with technology

"Good heavens Miss Sakamoto - you're beautiful!"
I -
I don't believe it!
There she goes again!
She's tidied up, and I can't find anything!
All my tubes and wires
And careful notes
And antiquated notions

But! - it's poetry in motion
And when she turned her eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
Mmm - but she blinded me with science
"She blinded me with - with science!"
She blinded me with -

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V83JR2IoI8k[/youtube]